Through games of Sunday, March 2, 2025:
Top 25 archive | Previous polls by year
| # | School (No. 1 votes) | W-L | Pts. | Prev. |
| 1 | New York University (25) | 25-0 | 625 | 1 |
| 2 | Bowdoin | 27-0 | 588 | 2 |
| 3 | Scranton | 26-1 | 564 | 4 |
| 4 | Illinois Wesleyan | 26-1 | 559 | 3 |
| 5 | Gustavus Adolphus | 26-1 | 504 | 6 |
| 6 | Whitman | 26-1 | 501 | 5 |
| 7 | Baldwin Wallace | 26-1 | 463 | 7 |
| 8 | Smith | 26-2 | 420 | 9 |
| 9 | Christopher Newport | 26-1 | 394 | 8 |
| 10 | Gettysburg | 25-2 | 385 | 12 |
| 11 | UW-Oshkosh | 23-4 | 345 | 10 |
| 12 | Wartburg | 25-2 | 342 | 13 |
| 13 | Trine | 24-3 | 296 | 11 |
| 14 | Randolph-Macon | 27-1 | 289 | 18 |
| 15 | Catholic | 24-4 | 254 | 15 |
| 16 | UW-Whitewater | 22-6 | 219 | 25 |
| 17 | Johns Hopkins | 22-4 | 218 | 17 |
| 18 | Ohio Wesleyan | 23-3 | 217 | 14 |
| 19 | East Texas Baptist | 23-4 | 204 | 23 |
| 20 | Elizabethtown | 22-4 | 164 | 16 |
| 21 | Washington and Lee | 24-4 | 100 | 20 |
| 22 | UW-Stout | 19-7 | 87 | 22 |
| 23 | Bethel | 22-5 | 81 | 24 |
| 24 | Messiah | 25-2 | 71 | -- |
| 25 | Carnegie Mellon | 20-5 | 68 | -- |
Dropped out: No. 19 Hope; No. 21 Colorado College
Others receiving votes: Colorado College 61; Hope 33; Cortland 16; Southern Virginia 16; Mass-Dartmouth 15; Texas Lutheran 11; Colby 6; UW-Stevens Point 4; Washington and Jefferson 3; Western New England 2
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.