Through games of Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024:
Top 25 archive | Previous polls by year
| # | School (No. 1 votes) | W-L | Pts. | Prev. |
| 1 | New York University (25) | 5-0 | 625 | 1 |
| 2 | Wartburg | 6-0 | 574 | 2 |
| 3 | Scranton | 5-0 | 552 | 3 |
| 4 | Illinois Wesleyan | 6-0 | 544 | 8 |
| 5 | UW-Oshkosh | 6-0 | 499 | 5 |
| 6 | Washington and Lee | 5-0 | 473 | 6 |
| 7 | Bowdoin | 4-0 | 469 | 7 |
| 8 | Christopher Newport | 7-0 | 445 | 9 |
| 9 | UW-Whitewater | 5-1 | 441 | 4 |
| 10 | Gustavus Adolphus | 5-0 | 432 | 10 |
| 11 | Washington U. | 5-1 | 357 | 11 |
| 12 | Gettysburg | 7-0 | 351 | 12 |
| 13 | Mass-Dartmouth | 5-0 | 289 | 14 |
| 14 | Whitman | 7-0 | 283 | 18 |
| 15 | Smith | 5-1 | 259 | 16 |
| 16 | Ohio Wesleyan | 6-0 | 238 | 20 |
| 17 | Hope | 5-2 | 154 | 19 |
| 18 | Hardin-Simmons | 7-1 | 126 | 15 |
| 19 | Baldwin Wallace | 4-1 | 119 | 21 |
| 20 | Johns Hopkins | 3-2 | 118 | 17 |
| 21 | Messiah | 6-0 | 117 | 25 |
| 22 | Chicago | 7-0 | 115 | -- |
| 23 | Carnegie Mellon | 7-0 | 103 | -- |
| 24 | Catholic | 4-1 | 95 | 22 |
| 25 | Elizabethtown | 5-1 | 90 | -- |
Dropped out: No. 13 Carroll; No. 23 Concordia-Moorhead; No. 24 UW-Stout
Others receiving votes: UW-Stout 44; Western New England 40; Trine 37; Colorado College 33; Carroll 30; Washington and Jefferson 28; Bates 18; Trinity (Conn.) 10; Coe 5; Mary Hardin-Baylor 4; Trinity (Texas) 3; UW-La Crosse 2; Randolph-Macon 1; SUNY Cobleskill 1; Vassar 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.