Entering 2009-10 season:
# | Team | W-L | Pts. | Last poll |
1 | Washington U. (25) | 29-2 | 625 | 1 |
2 | John Carroll | 25-5 | 526 | 10 |
3 | Guilford | 26-6 | 517 | 8 |
4 | St. Thomas | 30-1 | 500 | 3 |
5 | Richard Stockton | 30-3 | 498 | 6 |
6 | Franklin and Marshall | 26-7 | 489 | 11 |
7 | DeSales | 25-6 | 399 | 15 |
8 | Mass-Dartmouth | 27-4 | 397 | 19 |
9 | Wooster | 23-7 | 393 | — |
10 | UW-Stevens Point | 24-5 | 389 | 5 |
11 | Bridgewater State | 22-7 | 352 | — |
12 | Texas-Dallas | 26-5 | 295 | 12 |
13 | UW-Whitewater | 23-6 | 289 | 7 |
14 | Cal Lutheran | 18-8 | 184 | — |
15 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 26-4 | 171 | 2 |
16 | Whitworth | 23-6 | 169 | 24 |
17 | UW-Platteville | 23-5 | 166 | 6 |
18 | Puget Sound | 25-4 | 162 | 9 |
19 | Randolph-Macon | 20-6 | 149 | — |
20 | St. Mary's (Md.) | 21-5 | 147 | — |
21 | Centre | 23-5 | 130 | — |
22 | Brandeis | 18-9 | 123 | — |
23 | Hope | 21-8 | 109 | — |
24 | UW-Oshkosh | 16-11 | 106 | — |
25 | Amherst | 21-7 | 95 | — |
Others receiving votes: Illinois Wesleyan 72, Middlebury 69, Transylvania 59, Chapman 49, Calvin 47, Oglethorpe 46, St. Lawrence 43, Elms 38, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 37, Catholic 35, Christopher Newport 28, Carnegie Mellon 22, Ithaca 19, Augustana 18, Bethel 15, Capital 13, Rhode Island College 13, Williams 13, Elmhurst 12, St. John Fisher 12, Virginia Wesleyan 12, Widener 12, Salem State 11, Worcester Polytech 10, Lawrence 8, Farmingdale State 6, Buena Vista 5, Trinity (Texas) 5, Gwynedd-Mercy 4, Carthage 3, MIT 3, Carroll 2, Ohio Northern 2, Ohio Wesleyan 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.