Through games of Sunday, Jan. 5:
| # | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | DePauw (24) | 12-0 | 623 | 1 |
| 2 | Washington U. | 10-1 | 578 | 2 |
| 3 | Amherst (1) | 10-0 | 560 | 3 |
| 4 | Whitman | 11-0 | 538 | 4 |
| 5 | Hope | 12-0 | 498 | 5 |
| 6 | Thomas More | 11-0 | 491 | 6 |
| 7 | Tufts | 10-0 | 452 | 7 |
| 8 | George Fox | 11-0 | 441 | 10 |
| 9 | St. Thomas | 8-1 | 438 | 9 |
| 10 | Williams | 12-0 | 382 | 12 |
| 11 | Montclair State | 11-1 | 378 | 11 |
| 12 | Emory | 11-0 | 363 | 13 |
| 13 | FDU-Florham | 9-0 | 321 | 14 |
| 14 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 10-1 | 305 | 15 |
| 15 | York (Pa.) | 11-0 | 275 | 19 |
| 16 | Carthage | 10-2 | 224 | 16 |
| 17 | UW-Oshkosh | 12-0 | 222 | 21 |
| 18 | John Carroll | 9-0 | 190 | 24 |
| 19 | UW-Whitewater | 9-3 | 170 | 8 |
| 20 | Rhodes | 9-1 | 115 | 17 |
| 21 | Christopher Newport | 9-2 | 71 | -- |
| 22 | Ferrum | 6-0 | 56 | -- |
| 23 | Randolph-Macon | 9-2 | 53 | 20 |
| 24 | UW-Stevens Point | 9-3 | 50 | 22 |
| 25 | Bowdoin | 11-1 | 40 | 25 |
Dropped out: No. 18 Ithaca; No. 23 Vassar.
Others receiving votes: Elizabethtown 37; Haverford 35; Ithaca 32; Trinity (Texas) 29; Lebanon Valley 23; Ohio Northern 22; Texas-Tyler 19; Wheaton (Mass.) 17; Texas-Dallas 16; Vassar 15; Moravian 14; Baldwin Wallace 8; TCNJ 6; Hartwick 5; St. Norbert 3; Olivet 3; Transylvania 2; New York University 2; DeSales 2; Bethel 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.