Through games of Sunday, Dec. 14:
| # | School (No. 1 votes) | W-L | Pts. | Prev. |
| 1 | New York University (15) | 8-0 | 613 | 1 |
| 2 | Scranton (9) | 9-0 | 609 | 2 |
| 3 | UW-Oshkosh (1) | 7-0 | 562 | 3 |
| 4 | Smith | 7-0 | 540 | 4 |
| 5 | Johns Hopkins | 8-0 | 529 | 5 |
| 6 | Bowdoin | 7-0 | 496 | 6 |
| 7 | Emory | 9-0 | 452 | 7 |
| 8 | Washington and Lee | 8-0 | 417 | 8 |
| 9 | Hope | 8-1 | 412 | 9 |
| 10 | UW-Whitewater | 6-1 | 364 | 11 |
| 11 | John Carroll | 6-1 | 347 | 10 |
| 12 | Bates | 6-1 | 337 | 12 |
| 13 | Illinois Wesleyan | 7-2 | 305 | 13 |
| 14 | Carroll | 7-2 | 257 | 14 |
| 15 | Amherst | 6-0 | 254 | 15 |
| 16 | Ohio Wesleyan | 5-1 | 238 | 18 |
| 17 | Trinity (Conn.) | 8-1 | 237 | 16 |
| 18 | Washington U. | 6-2 | 166 | 19 |
| 19 | Bethel | 5-1 | 157 | 20 |
| 20 | Denison | 9-0 | 103 | 24 |
| 21 | Chicago | 5-2 | 98 | 22 |
| 22 | Elizabethtown | 7-1 | 96 | 17 |
| 23 | Baldwin Wallace | 6-2 | 77 | 21 |
| 24 | Shenandoah | 8-1 | 54 | -- |
| 25 | Colby | 5-2 | 32 | 25 |
Dropped out: No. 23 Wisconsin Lutheran
Others receiving votes: Ripon 31; Christopher Newport 29; East Texas Baptist 29; Catholic 26; Concordia-Moorhead 26; Cortland 26; Washington and Jefferson 26; Coe 24; Trine 24; Cal Lutheran 18; Bridgewater 16; Calvin 15; UW-La Crosse 14; UW-Eau Claire 13; Southern Maine 10; Hardin-Simmons 9; Saint Mary's (Minn.) 7; Wisconsin Lutheran 6; UW-Platteville 5; Widener 5; McDaniel 4; Susquehanna 4; Messiah 3; Tufts 1; UW-Stout 1; William Paterson 1
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.