Through games of Dec. 16, 2001:
| # | Team | W-L | Pts. | LW |
| 1 | Carthage (24) | 7-0 | 624 | 1 |
| 2 | Christopher Newport (1) | 6-0 | 571 | 2 |
| 3 | Franklin & Marshall | 10-0 | 559 | 4 |
| 4 | Hampden-Sydney | 7-0 | 557 | 3 |
| 5 | Gustavus Adolphus | 9-0 | 521 | 5 |
| 6 | DePauw | 7-0 | 473 | 6 |
| 7 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 8-0 | 459 | 7 |
| 8 | Catholic | 7-1 | 436 | 9 |
| 9 | Brockport State | 8-0 | 417 | 10 |
| 10 | Washington U. | 9-1 | 399 | 8 |
| 11 | Ohio Northern | 7-1 | 379 | 11 |
| 12 | Wittenberg | 7-1 | 334 | 13 |
| 13 | UW-Whitewater | 7-1 | 300 | 17 |
| 14 | UW-Stevens Point | 9-2 | 290 | 16 |
| 15 | Lewis & Clark | 6-2 | 280 | 14 |
| 16 | Elizabethtown | 8-1 | 239 | 22 |
| 17 | Calvin | 7-3 | 163 | 19 |
| 18 | UW-Platteville | 7-3 | 158 | 12 |
| 19 | Clark | 6-2 | 144 | 18 |
| 20 | Hanover | 8-1 | 125 | 23 |
| 21 | Williams | 7-0 | 103 | --- |
| 22 | Rochester | 9-0 | 94 | --- |
| 23 | Mount Union | 7-1 | 75 | --- |
| 24 | Millsaps | 7-0 | 58 | 24 |
| 25 | Randolph-Macon | 6-1 | 52 | --- |
Dropped out: No. 15 Gettysburg; No. 20 Wooster; No. 21 Otterbein; No. 25 Mississippi College
Others receiving votes: Gettysburg 50; Amherst 42; Mass-Dartmouth 40; Mississippi College 38; Wartburg 24; St. Thomas 21; UW-River Falls 19; Wooster 19; Otterbein 14; Alvernia 11; UW-Stout 8; Maryville (Tenn.) 7; UW-La Crosse 6; Neumann 5; Linfield 4; Kings Point 3; Staten Island 2; Buena Vista 1; St. Lawrence 1.