Through games of Dec. 2, 2001:
| # | Team | W-L | Pts. | Last |
| 1 | Carthage (23) | 5-0 | 623 | 1 |
| 2 | Christopher Newport (2) | 5-0 | 594 | 2 |
| 3 | Hampden-Sydney | 5-0 | 561 | 3 |
| 4 | Franklin & Marshall | 7-0 | 550 | 4 |
| 5 | UW-Stevens Point | 7-0 | 509 | 6 |
| 6 | Gustavus Adolphus | 6-0 | 490 | 7 |
| 7 | Lewis & Clark | 5-1 | 441 | 8 |
| 8 | DePauw | 6-0 | 430 | 9 |
| 9 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 5-0 | 387 | 16 |
| 10 | Washington U. | 6-1 | 374 | 10 |
| 11 | Catholic | 3-1 | 349 | 13 |
| 12 | Brockport State | 5-0 | 335 | 15 |
| 13 | Ohio Northern | 3-1 | 300 | 5 |
| 14 | Calvin | 5-2 | 218 | 11 |
| 15 | UW-Platteville | 5-1 | 217 | 12 |
| 16 | Wittenberg | 4-1 | 191 | 23 |
| 17 | St. Thomas | 4-1 | 149 | 21 |
| 18 | UW-Oshkosh | 4-0 | 141 | — |
| 19 | Gettysburg | 6-0 | 121 | — |
| 20 | Mount Union | 5-0 | 116 | — |
| 21 | Amherst | 3-0 | 114 | — |
| 22 | Illinois Wesleyan | 3-2 | 105 | 25 |
| 23 | Wooster | 3-2 | 100 | 14 |
| 24 | Hanover | 7-0 | 90 | — |
| 25 | Clark | 4-2 | 74 | 17 |
Dropped out: No. 18 Chicago; No. 19 Mass-Dartmouth; No. 20 Wartburg; No. 22 Rowan; No. 24 Wilkes.
Others receiving votes: Mississippi College 68; Mass-Dartmouth 55; Capital 51; Millsaps 45; Otterbein 44; Elizabethtown 38; UW-Whitewater 34; Kings Point 31; Rowan 27; Richard Stockton 23; Augsburg 18; Williams 18; UW-Eau Claire 13; St. Lawrence 12; Wilkes 11; Hope 9; Rochester 8; Linfield 7; Randolph-Macon 7; UW-Stout 6; Wartburg 6; Chicago 4; Ripon 4; Rutgers-Camden 3; Pacific Lutheran 2; Buena Vista 1; UW-La Crosse 1.