Through games of Sunday, Dec. 15:
| # | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | UW-Stevens Point (19) | 7-0 | 618 | 1 |
| 2 | Wooster (5) | 7-0 | 599 | 2 |
| 3 | Illinois Wesleyan | 6-1 | 566 | 3 |
| 4 | Cabrini (1) | 8-0 | 550 | 4 |
| 5 | Williams | 7-1 | 529 | 5 |
| 6 | Amherst | 7-1 | 501 | 7 |
| 7 | St. Thomas | 6-1 | 397 | 12 |
| 8 | WPI | 9-1 | 395 | 11 |
| 9 | Washington U. | 6-2 | 368 | 10 |
| 10 | Virginia Wesleyan | 7-1 | 358 | 6 |
| 11 | Wittenberg | 7-1 | 346 | 13 |
| 12 | UW-Whitewater | 5-2 | 338 | 8 |
| 13 | Augustana | 7-1 | 297 | 15 |
| 14 | St. Norbert | 5-1 | 259 | 16 |
| 15 | Marietta | 7-1 | 254 | 17 |
| 16 | Calvin | 7-2 | 243 | 14 |
| 17 | Guilford | 8-0 | 206 | 23 |
| 18 | Christopher Newport | 7-1 | 177 | -- |
| 19 | Middlebury | 6-2 | 173 | 18 |
| 20 | Wesley | 6-1 | 141 | 21 |
| 21 | SUNY-Purchase | 7-0 | 110 | 24 |
| 22 | Eastern Connecticut | 7-1 | 90 | -- |
| 23 | St. Mary's (Md.) | 5-3 | 86 | 9 |
| 24 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 6-3 | 84 | 22 |
| 25 | Colorado College | 5-1 | 71 | 25 |
Dropped out: No. 19 UW-Stout, No. 20 Mary Hardin-Baylor
Others receiving votes: UW-Stout 50; Mary Washington 38; Stevenson 26; Whitworth 24; Oglethorpe 26; Albertus Magnus 22; Brockport State 21; Dickinson 21; Babson 14; John Carroll 14; Richard Stockton 17; Baldwin Wallace 12; Defiance 11; Texas-Dallas 10; North Central (Ill.) 10; UW-Platteville 10; Dubuque 7; Emory 6; Alvernia 6; Bowdoin 6; Springfield 5; Hampden-Sydney 5; Ohio Wesleyan 5; Centre 2; Juniata 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.