Through games of Dec. 5, 2004:
| # | Team | W-L | Pts. | Last Week |
| 1 | UW-Stevens Point (25) | 6-0 | 625 | 1 |
| 2 | Illinois Wesleyan | 5-0 | 593 | 2 |
| 3 | Wooster | 6-0 | 537 | 3 |
| 4 | Puget Sound | 6-0 | 530 | 5 |
| 5 | Franklin and Marshall | 3-0 | 498 | 6 |
| 6 | Amherst | 5-0 | 482 | 8 |
| 7 | Williams | 7-0 | 446 | 10 |
| 8 | John Carroll | 5-0 | 418 | 11 |
| 9 | Hanover | 6-1 | 417 | 9 |
| 10 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 6-0 | 399 | 13 |
| 11 | Lawrence | 3-1 | 373 | 4 |
| 12 | Buena Vista | 6-0 | 369 | 14 |
| 13 | Trinity (Conn.) | 6-1 | 340 | 7 |
| 14 | UW-Oshkosh | 6-0 | 247 | 24 |
| 15 | Albion | 5-0 | 240 | 20 |
| 16 | Wittenberg | 4-1 | 236 | 18 |
| 17 | Baldwin-Wallace | 5-1 | 218 | 12 |
| 18 | Potsdam State | 5-0 | 188 | 19 |
| 19 | Gwynedd-Mercy | 4-1 | 136 | 22 |
| 20 | Otterbein | 4-1 | 133 | — |
| 21 | New Jersey | 4-1 | 110 | 25 |
| 22 | Virginia Wesleyan | 7-0 | 88 | — |
| 23 | St. John Fisher | 3-0 | 86 | 23 |
| 24 | Bethel | 5-0 | 59 | — |
| 25 | Salem State | 6-0 | 50 | — |
Dropped out: No. 15 UW-Whitewater; 16 Trinity (Texas); No. 17 Rochester; No. 21 Carthage.
Others receiving votes: Trinity (Texas) 43, Rochester 43, Benedictine 39, UW-Whitewater 27, Lycoming 26, Randolph-Macon 20, Ripon 18, Occidental 13, UW-Platteville 11, Elmhurst 10, Keene State 9, Lebanon Valley 8, Gustavus Adolphus 8, Colby-Sawyer 8, Calvin 6, Western Connecticut 5, Sul Ross State 4, York (Pa.) 3, Christopher Newport 2, Aurora 1, Hamilton 1, Hampden-Sydney 1, Wartburg 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 on Tuesdays.