Through games of Feb. 10, 2002:
| # | Team | W-L | Pts. | LW |
| 1 | Carthage (21) | 20-1 | 621 | 1 |
| 2 | Washington U. (4) | 21-1 | 601 | 3 |
| 3 | Catholic | 20-2 | 535 | 2 |
| 4 | Elizabethtown | 21-2 | 532 | 6 |
| 5 | St. Thomas | 20-3 | 526 | 5 |
| 6 | Randolph-Macon | 20-4 | 499 | 7 |
| 7 | Gustavus Adolphus | 19-3 | 445 | 9 |
| 8 | Otterbein | 20-3 | 428 | 11 |
| 9 | Brockport State | 21-2 | 421 | 4 |
| 10 | DePauw | 19-3 | 387 | 12 |
| 11 | Wittenberg | 20-3 | 357 | 13 |
| 12 | Hampden-Sydney | 19-4 | 354 | 8 |
| 13 | Capital | 20-3 | 315 | 14 |
| 14 | UW-Stevens Point | 18-5 | 304 | 16 |
| 15 | UW-Oshkosh | 17-5 | 291 | 10 |
| 16 | Buena Vista | 19-4 | 208 | 19 |
| 17 | St. Norbert | 18-3 | 178 | 20 |
| 18 | Franklin & Marshall | 19-4 | 173 | 21 |
| 19 | Christopher Newport | 19-4 | 171 | 15 |
| 20 | UW-Whitewater | 17-6 | 125 | 17 |
| 21 | Mississippi College | 19-2 | 121 | 25 |
| 22 | Rochester | 18-4 | 93 | — |
| 23 | Clark | 17-4 | 79 | 18 |
| 24 | UW-La Crosse | 17-6 | 76 | — |
| 25 | Willamette | 18-5 | 75 | — |
Dropped out: No. 22 Wooster; No. 23 Williams; No. 24 Gettysburg.
Others receiving votes: Maryville (Tenn.) 32; Hanover 29; Babson 24; Williams 24; Gettysburg 22; Whitworth 19; Lewis & Clark 16; Keene State 12; Wooster 12; Trinity (Conn.) 8; Alvernia 5; Augustana 3; McMurry 2; Pitt-Bradford 1; York (Pa.) 1.