D3hoops.com men's Top 25, Week 7
Through games of Jan. 13, 2002:
| # | Team | W-L | Pts. | LW |
| 1 | Randolph-Macon (10) | 13-1 | 589 | 11 |
| 2 | Carthage (6) | 12-1 | 579 | 1 |
| 3 | Catholic (7) | 12-1 | 567 | 5 |
| 4 | Washington U. | 13-1 | 538 | 6 |
| 5 | Brockport State (2) | 12-0 | 529 | 7 |
| 6 | Gustavus Adolphus | 13-1 | 522 | 10 |
| 7 | Hampden-Sydney | 13-1 | 475 | 2 |
| 8 | Christopher Newport | 12-1 | 432 | 9 |
| 9 | Elizabethtown | 13-1 | 408 | 12 |
| 10 | St. Thomas | 12-2 | 319 | 18 |
| 11 | Rochester | 12-0 | 311 | 16 |
| 12 | Franklin & Marshall | 13-2 | 301 | 8 |
| 13 | DePauw | 12-2 | 279 | 3 |
| 14 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 10-2 | 274 | 4 |
| 15 | Otterbein | 13-2 | 270 | 19 |
| 16 | Wittenberg | 13-2 | 253 | 17 |
| 17 | UW-Oshkosh | 12-3 | 233 | 20 |
| 18 | UW-Stevens Point | 13-3 | 207 | 13 |
| 19 | Williams | 11-1 | 164 | 14 |
| 20 | Augustana | 11-3 | 146 | — |
| 21 | UW-Whitewater | 11-3 | 120 | 15 |
| 22 | Amherst | 9-2 | 108 | — |
| 23 | Buena Vista | 11-3 | 97 | 24 |
| 24 | Hanover | 14-2 | 91 | 22 |
| 25 | Millsaps | 12-2 | 83 | 21 |
Dropped out: No. 23 Ohio Northern, No. 25 Lewis & Clark.
Others receiving votes: Mississippi College 48; Maryville (Tenn.) 36; Wooster 33; Neumann 21; Clark 17; Calvin 14; Gettysburg 14; UW-La Crosse 14; Ohio Northern 8; St. Norbert 7; Alvernia 5; Linfield 3; McMurry 3; UW-River Falls 3; Whitworth 2; Capital 1; New Jersey City 1.
