Through games of Sunday, Jan. 8:
| # | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | Middlebury (23) | 12-0 | 623 | 1 |
| 2 | Virginia Wesleyan (1) | 11-1 | 584 | 2 |
| 3 | MIT (1) | 14-0 | 563 | 4 |
| 4 | Emory | 12-0 | 546 | 5 |
| 5 | Amherst | 12-1 | 527 | 6 |
| 6 | Augustana | 11-2 | 460 | 3 |
| 7 | Franklin and Marshall | 13-0 | 450 | 8 |
| 8 | Mary Hardin-Baylor | 12-0 | 434 | 9 |
| 9 | UW-Whitewater | 13-1 | 420 | 10 |
| 10 | Whitworth | 11-2 | 368 | 11 |
| 11 | Hope | 12-1 | 363 | 12 |
| 12 | Williams | 12-2 | 354 | 7 |
| 13 | Cabrini | 11-1 | 296 | 14 |
| 14 | Wabash | 12-1 | 271 | 17 |
| 15 | UW-Stevens Point | 11-3 | 249 | 13 |
| 16 | Wooster | 11-2 | 239 | 15 |
| 17 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 12-0 | 201 | 19 |
| 18 | Puget Sound | 11-2 | 167 | 16 |
| 19 | Birmingham-Southern | 12-1 | 150 | 22 |
| 20 | Rhode Island College | 11-1 | 141 | 24 |
| 21 | Buffalo State | 10-2 | 110 | 21 |
| 22 | Oswego State | 9-2 | 102 | 20 |
| 23 | Western Connecticut | 12-1 | 86 | -- |
| 24 | WPI | 11-2 | 61 | -- |
| 25 | Illinois Wesleyan | 11-2 | 56 | -- |
Dropped out: No. 18 St. Thomas, No. 23 Wheaton (Ill.), No. 25 Transylvania.
Others receiving votes: St. Thomas 51; Wittenberg 28; William Paterson 26; Ohio Wesleyan 19; Hardin-Simmons 19; Bethany 19; Wheaton (Ill.) 18; St. Mary's (Md.) 17; Grinnell 17; Washington U. 14; Rochester 13; Marietta 10; John Carroll 10; Eastern Connecticut 8; Transylvania 7; Lake Forest 7; Hartwick 5; Farmingdale State 5; Christopher Newport 5; New Jersey City 3; Hampden-Sydney 2; Randolph-Macon 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.