Entering the 2023-24 season:
| # | School (No. 1 votes) | W-L | Pts. |
| 1 | Transylvania (17) | 33-0 | 614 |
| 2 | New York University (8) | 25-3 | 590 |
| 3 | Christopher Newport | 31-1 | 564 |
| 4 | Tufts | 24-7 | 534 |
| 5 | Rhode Island College | 28-4 | 496 |
| 6 | Scranton | 28-1 | 462 |
| 7 | Trinity (Conn.) | 25-6 | 448 |
| 8 | Wartburg | 23-7 | 418 |
| 9 | UW-Whitewater | 23-7 | 388 |
| 10 | Ohio Northern | 25-5 | 372 |
| 11 | Smith | 30-2 | 361 |
| 12 | Trinity (Texas) | 28-2 | 270 |
| 13 | Babson | 26-6 | 266 |
| 14 | DeSales | 27-2 | 236 |
| 15 | Gustavus Adolphus | 26-3 | 225 |
| 16 | Hardin-Simmons | 24-4 | 210 |
| 17 | Trine | 23-7 | 202 |
| 18 | Elizabethtown | 23-5 | 184 |
| 19 | Loras | 24-5 | 169 |
| 20 | Mary Washington | 24-7 | 165 |
| 21 | Hope | 26-3 | 160 |
| 22 | Chicago | 23-5 | 129 |
| 23 | Whitman | 22-6 | 120 |
| 24 | Millikin | 24-5 | 110 |
| 25 | Messiah | 26-3 | 77 |
Others receiving votes: Emory 71, UW-Oshkosh 56, Marietta 50, Puget Sound 39, Baldwin Wallace 31, Amherst 19, St. John Fisher 19, Gettysburg 14, Washington and Jefferson 12, Ithaca 10, UW-Stout 10, Washington and Lee 8, Calvin 6, Mary Hardin-Baylor 4, Marymount 3, Pacific 2, Colorado College 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. Points are awarded on a 25-24-23-22-etc. basis.