Through games of Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025:
Top 25 archive | Previous polls by year
| # | School (No. 1 votes) | W-L | Pts. | Prev. |
| 1 | New York University (24) | 12-0 | 624 | 1 |
| 2 | Illinois Wesleyan (1) | 15-0 | 584 | 2 |
| 3 | Scranton | 13-0 | 582 | 3 |
| 4 | UW-Oshkosh | 14-0 | 547 | 4 |
| 5 | Bowdoin | 13-0 | 518 | 5 |
| 6 | Gustavus Adolphus | 13-0 | 504 | 6 |
| 7 | Whitman | 12-1 | 437 | 8 |
| 8 | Smith | 12-1 | 423 | 10 |
| 9 | Christopher Newport | 16-1 | 394 | 9 |
| 10 | Gettysburg | 13-1 | 356 | 12 |
| 11 | Wartburg | 13-2 | 335 | 11 |
| 12 | Baldwin Wallace | 12-1 | 328 | 14 |
| 13 | Washington U. | 10-2 | 322 | 16 |
| 14 | Hardin-Simmons | 14-1 | 312 | 13 |
| 15 | UW-Whitewater | 11-3 | 254 | 7 |
| 16 | Catholic | 12-1 | 213 | 18 |
| 17 | Trine | 12-2 | 209 | 24 |
| 18 | Ohio Wesleyan | 12-2 | 181 | 20 |
| 19 | Hope | 11-3 | 175 | 15 |
| 20 | Washington and Lee | 12-2 | 158 | 21 |
| 21 | UW-Stout | 11-3 | 131 | -- |
| 22 | Elizabethtown | 11-2 | 129 | 17 |
| 23 | Carnegie Mellon | 11-1 | 119 | 23 |
| 24 | Chicago | 10-2 | 83 | 19 |
| 25 | Johns Hopkins | 9-3 | 54 | 22 |
Dropped out: No. 25 Colorado College
Others receiving votes: Randolph-Macon 23; Bridgewater 18; Colorado College 18; Mass-Dartmouth 18; Messiah 17; East Texas Baptist 10; Western New England 10; UW-Stevens Point 9, McMurry 7; Coe 6; SUNY Cobleskill 4; Washington and Jefferson 4; Bethel 3; Middlebury 3; Texas Lutheran 3.
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.