Through games of Sunday, March 1:
| # | School (No. 1 votes) | W-L | Pts. | Prev. |
| 1 | New York University (19) | 25-0 | 618 | 1 |
| 2 | Scranton (6) | 27-0 | 606 | 2 |
| 3 | Washington and Lee | 28-0 | 565 | 4 |
| 4 | UW-Oshkosh | 24-3 | 510 | 5 |
| 5 | Johns Hopkins | 25-1 | 502 | 3 |
| 6 | Smith | 27-1 | 499 | 7 |
| 7 | Hope | 24-3 | 470 | 9 |
| 8 | Denison | 24-2 | 439 | 6 |
| 9 | Bowdoin | 24-2 | 425 | 8 |
| 10 | Illinois Wesleyan | 22-5 | 365 | 14 |
| 11 | John Carroll | 24-4 | 355 | 10 |
| 12 | Bates | 24-3 | 309 | 15 |
| 13 | Baldwin Wallace | 24-3 | 285 | 11 |
| 14 | Carroll | 22-5 | 281 | 12 |
| 15 | Washington U. | 19-6 | 273 | 16 |
| 16 | Ohio Wesleyan | 20-5 | 262 | 13 |
| 17 | Chicago | 17-7 | 206 | 17 |
| 18 | Ripon | 25-2 | 204 | 18 |
| 19 | UW-La Crosse | 18-9 | 191 | 24 |
| 20 | Concordia-Moorhead | 23-4 | 131 | 19 |
| 21 | SUNY New Paltz | 25-2 | 110 | 22 |
| 22 | UW-Whitewater | 19-8 | 101 | 20 |
| 23 | Bethel | 22-6 | 98 | -- |
| 24 | Trine | 22-5 | 97 | 21 |
| 25 | UW-River Falls | 16-11 | 38 | -- |
Dropped out: No. 23 William Paterson; No. 25 UW-Platteville
Others receiving votes: DePauw 34; UW-Platteville 26; William Paterson 26; Cortland 21; Christopher Newport 20; Southern Maine 18; Hardin-Simmons 15; Otterbein 8; Carnegie Mellon 6; Wisconsin Lutheran 6; Gustavus Adolphus 3; Gettysburg 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.