Through Sunday, Jan. 5, 2003:
| # | Team | W-L | Pts. | Prev |
| 1 | Washington U. (23) | 9-0 | 621 | 1 |
| 2 | St. Benedict (1) | 9-0 | 579 | 3 |
| 3 | Scranton | 10-0 | 556 | 4 |
| 4 | Hardin-Simmons (1) | 9-0 | 537 | 5 |
| 5 | Hope | 10-0 | 504 | 6 |
| 6 | Bowdoin | 7-1 | 500 | 2 |
| 7 | DeSales | 10-0 | 486 | 7 |
| 8 | UW-Eau Claire | 12-1 | 462 | 8 |
| 9 | Carleton | 9-0 | 429 | 11 |
| 10 | Baldwin-Wallace | 9-1 | 414 | 10 |
| 11 | Rochester | 6-0 | 359 | 12 |
| 12 | UW-Stout | 10-2 | 299 | 14 |
| 13 | King's | 8-2 | 272 | 9 |
| 14 | Eastern Connecticut | 8-1 | 240 | 16 |
| 15 | Gustavus Adolphus | 6-0 | 207 | 18 |
| 16 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 8-2 | 196 | 23 |
| 17 | Messiah | 10-1 | 178 | 22 |
| 18 | Southern Maine | 8-2 | 174 | 13 |
| 19 | Wilmington | 8-2 | 171 | 19 |
| 20 | UW-Oshkosh | 10-1 | 143 | — |
| 21 | DePauw | 10-2 | 142 | 21 |
| 22 | UW-Stevens Point | 9-3 | 127 | 15 |
| 23 | Lebanon Valley | 6-1 | 92 | 25 |
| 24 | St. John Fisher | 6-0 | 87 | — |
| 25 | Carnegie Mellon | 8-2 | 57 | — |
Dropped out: No. 17 Salisbury; No. 21 St.
Lawrence; No. 24 Colby
Others receiving votes: Salisbury 50; Lake Forest
45; Mt. St. Mary 34; St. Lawrence 24; Springfield 21; NYU 19; New
Jersey 19; Wesleyan 16; Case Western 12; Gettysburg 10; Simpson 8;
Whitworth 6; Colby 6; Rutgers-Camden 6; Johns Hopkins 5; Amherst 5;
Salem State 3; Calvin 2; Otterbein 1; Kean 1.