Through games of Dec. 9, 2001:
| # | Team | W-L | Pts. | LW |
| 1 | Carthage (23) | 7-0 | 623 | 1 |
| 2 | Christopher Newport (2) | 5-0 | 592 | 2 |
| 3 | Hampden-Sydney | 7-0 | 563 | 3 |
| 4 | Franklin & Marshall | 10-0 | 560 | 4 |
| 5 | Gustavus Adolphus | 8-0 | 512 | 6 |
| 6 | DePauw | 6-0 | 459 | 8 |
| 7 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 7-0 | 444 | 9 |
| 8 | Washington U. | 8-1 | 433 | 10 |
| 9 | Catholic | 6-1 | 412 | 11 |
| 10 | Brockport State | 8-0 | 387 | 12 |
| 11 | Ohio Northern | 5-1 | 354 | 13 |
| 12 | UW-Platteville | 7-1 | 338 | 15 |
| 13 | Wittenberg | 6-1 | 277 | 16 |
| 14 | Lewis & Clark | 6-2 | 267 | 7 |
| 15 | Gettysburg | 8-0 | 254 | 19 |
| 16 | UW-Stevens Point | 7-2 | 195 | 5 |
| 17 | UW-Whitewater | 6-1 | 184 | — |
| 18 | Clark | 6-2 | 170 | 25 |
| 19 | Calvin | 6-3 | 152 | 14 |
| 20 | Wooster | 5-2 | 128 | 23 |
| 21 | Otterbein | 7-0 | 119 | — |
| 22 | Elizabethtown | 7-1 | 111 | — |
| 23 | Hanover | 8-1 | 87 | 24 |
| 24 | Millsaps | 7-0 | 77 | — |
| 25 | Mississippi College | 5-0 | 70 | — |
Dropped out: No. 17 St. Thomas; No. 18 UW-Oshkosh; No. 20 Mount Union; No. 21 Amherst; No. 22 Illinois Wesleyan
Others receiving votes: Mass-Dartmouth 64; Rochester 58; Amherst 41; Williams 35; St. Thomas 29; UW-La Crosse 25; UW-Oshkosh 19; Randolph-Macon 17; Kings Point 13; Mount Union 11; Wartburg 11; St. John's 6; Alvernia 5; Augsburg 4; Buena Vista 4; Illinois Wesleyan 3; Rowan 3; Staten Island 3; UW-River Falls 2; UW-Stout 2; St. Lawrence 1; Wesleyan 1.