Through games of Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012:
| # | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | Middlebury (22) | 14-0 | 622 | 1 |
| 2 | Virginia Wesleyan (2) | 13-1 | 595 | 2 |
| 3 | MIT (1) | 16-0 | 575 | 3 |
| 4 | Amherst | 13-1 | 547 | 5 |
| 5 | UW-Whitewater | 15-1 | 500 | 9 |
| 6 | Mary Hardin-Baylor | 15-0 | 494 | 8 |
| 7 | Hope | 14-1 | 450 | 11 |
| 8 | Emory | 13-1 | 448 | 4 |
| 9 | Whitworth | 13-2 | 428 | 10 |
| 10 | Cabrini | 14-1 | 388 | 13 |
| 11 | UW-Stevens Point | 13-3 | 343 | 15 |
| 12 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 14-0 | 319 | 17 |
| 13 | Franklin and Marshall | 14-1 | 310 | 7 |
| 14 | Birmingham-Southern | 14-1 | 266 | 19 |
| 15 | Williams | 13-3 | 237 | 12 |
| 16 | Wabash | 13-2 | 211 | 14 |
| 17 | Illinois Wesleyan | 13-2 | 206 | 25 |
| 18 | William Paterson | 13-2 | 159 | -- |
| 19 | Augustana | 11-4 | 120 | 6 |
| 20 | St. Thomas | 10-3 | 103 | -- |
| 21 | Wittenberg | 12-3 | 99 | -- |
| 22 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 12-3 | 97 | -- |
| 23 | New York University | 12-1 | 87 | -- |
| 24 | Wooster | 12-3 | 60 | 16 |
| 25 | Eastern Connecticut | 12-1 | 57 | -- |
Dropped out: No. 18 Puget Sound, No. 20 Rhode Island College, No. 21 Buffalo State, No. 22 Oswego State, No. 23 Western Connecticut, No. 24 WPI.
Others receiving votes: Rhode Island College 56; Oswego State 47; Transylvania 42; Washington U. 39; Bethany 37; Western Connecticut 26; Lake Forest 24; Worcester Polytech 18; Hampden-Sydney 16; Ohio Wesleyan 16; UW-River Falls 16; Hardin-Simmons 16; Wesleyan 10; Christopher Newport 6; Puget Sound 6; St. Joseph's (L.I.) 6; Mary Washington 6; John Carroll 5; St. Mary's (Md.) 4; Randolph-Macon 4; Grinnell 2; DePauw 1; North Central (Ill.) 1.
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.