Through games of Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025:
Top 25 archive | Previous polls by year
| # | School (No. 1 votes) | W-L | Pts. | Prev. |
| 1 | New York University (25) | 20-0 | 625 | 1 |
| 2 | Scranton | 21-0 | 599 | 3 |
| 3 | Bowdoin | 22-0 | 563 | 4 |
| 4 | Illinois Wesleyan | 20-1 | 536 | 2 |
| 5 | UW-Oshkosh | 20-1 | 522 | 5 |
| 6 | Whitman | 20-1 | 484 | 6 |
| 7 | Smith | 19-1 | 473 | 7 |
| 8 | Gustavus Adolphus | 20-1 | 460 | 8 |
| 9 | Christopher Newport | 22-1 | 397 | 10 |
| 10 | Baldwin Wallace | 20-1 | 394 | 11 |
| 11 | Trine | 19-2 | 341 | 12 |
| 12 | Gettysburg | 19-2 | 331 | 9 |
| 13 | Wartburg | 20-2 | 319 | 13 |
| 14 | Ohio Wesleyan | 19-2 | 280 | 14 |
| 15 | Hope | 18-3 | 250 | 15 |
| 16 | Catholic | 18-3 | 214 | 17 |
| 17 | UW-Stout | 17-4 | 209 | 19 |
| 18 | Johns Hopkins | 18-3 | 202 | 20 |
| 19 | Randolph-Macon | 20-1 | 159 | 22 |
| 20 | Washington and Lee | 19-3 | 136 | 21 |
| 21 | Elizabethtown | 18-3 | 125 | 18 |
| 22 | Colorado College | 19-2 | 107 | 23 |
| 23 | Mass-Dartmouth | 19-2 | 95 | 24 |
| 24 | UW-Whitewater | 15-6 | 80 | 16 |
| 25 | East Texas Baptist | 19-4 | 65 | -- |
Dropped out: No. 25 Bethel
Others receiving votes: Bethel 48; Messiah 44; Western New England 21; Carroll 17; Washington and Jefferson 9; Cortland 5; Southern Virginia 5; Carnegie Mellon 4; McMurry 4; Hardin-Simmons 2
The D3hoops.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of 25 coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country, and is published weekly. Points are awarded on a 25-24-23-22-etc. basis.