Through games of Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025:
Top 25 archive | Previous polls by year
| # | School (No. 1 votes) | W-L | Pts. | Prev. |
| 1 | New York University (24) | 11-0 | 624 | 1 |
| 2 | Illinois Wesleyan (1) | 13-0 | 584 | 3 |
| 3 | Scranton | 11-0 | 578 | 4 |
| 4 | UW-Oshkosh | 12-0 | 541 | 5 |
| 5 | Bowdoin | 11-0 | 510 | 6 |
| 6 | Gustavus Adolphus | 11-0 | 501 | 7 |
| 7 | UW-Whitewater | 11-1 | 473 | 8 |
| 8 | Whitman | 10-1 | 398 | 12 |
| 9 | Christopher Newport | 14-1 | 384 | 11 |
| 10 | Smith | 10-1 | 374 | 13 |
| 11 | Wartburg | 11-2 | 371 | 2 |
| 12 | Gettysburg | 11-1 | 298 | 9 |
| 13 | Hardin-Simmons | 13-1 | 272 | 16 |
| 14 | Baldwin Wallace | 10-1 | 260 | 20 |
| 15 | Hope | 11-2 | 251 | 17 |
| 16 | Washington U. | 9-2 | 248 | 15 |
| 17 | Elizabethtown | 10-1 | 178 | 22 |
| 18 | Catholic | 10-1 | 177 | 25 |
| 19 | Chicago | 10-1 | 171 | 18 |
| 20 | Ohio Wesleyan | 11-2 | 169 | 10 |
| 21 | Washington and Lee | 10-2 | 162 | 14 |
| 22 | Johns Hopkins | 8-2 | 126 | 23 |
| 23 | Carnegie Mellon | 10-1 | 91 | 19 |
| 24 | Trine | 10-2 | 72 | -- |
| 25 | Colorado College | 10-1 | 70 | -- |
Dropped out: No. 21 Mass-Dartmouth; No. 25 Messiah
Others receiving votes: Coe 55; UW-Stout 40; Messiah 27; Mass-Dartmouth 26; East Texas Baptist 18; Randolph-Macon 18; Bethel 13; Bates 11; Bridgewater 9; Rhode Island College 9; Western New England 9; Washington and Jefferson 4; SUNY Cobleskill 2; McMurry 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.