Through 2002-03 season:
| # | Team | W-L | Pts. | Prev. |
| 1 | Trinity (Texas) (25) | 28-5 | 625 | 21 |
| 2 | Eastern Connecticut | 28-5 | 594 | 20 |
| 3 | UW-Eau Claire | 32-2 | 577 | 1 |
| 4 | Washington U. | 26-2 | 532 | 3 |
| 5 | Rochester | 24-6 | 521 | 14 |
| 6 | Hope | 31-1 | 492 | 2 |
| 7 | Hardin-Simmons | 27-1 | 465 | 4 |
| 8 | Bowdoin | 26-3 | 441 | 7 |
| 9 | Wilmington | 26-3 | 407 | 5 |
| 10 | Messiah | 28-3 | 380 | 9 |
| 11 | King's | 24-4 | 377 | 8 |
| 12 | DeSales | 24-4 | 296 | 11 |
| 13 | Carleton | 25-3 | 281 | 6 |
| 14 | Southern Maine | 26-4 | 246 | 13 |
| 15 | Scranton | 23-5 | 237 | 16 |
| 16 | Gustavus Adolphus | 25-4 | 220 | 10 |
| 17 | St. Benedict | 24-3 | 202 | 12 |
| 18 | Baldwin-Wallace | 25-5 | 179 | 17 |
| 19 | Pacific Lutheran | 21-8 | 166 | — |
| 20 | St. Norbert | 23-5 | 149 | — |
| 21 | Ithaca | 22-6 | 125 | — |
| 22 | St. Lawrence | 25-3 | 111 | 15 |
| 23 | Marymount | 23-7 | 82 | — |
| 24 | UW-Stevens Point | 22-5 | 79 | 19 |
| 25 | DePauw | 22-5 | 77 | 23 |
Dropped out: No. 18 St. John Fisher; No. 22
UW-Oshkosh; No. 24 Mt. St. Mary; No. 25 Wittenberg
Others receiving votes: St. John Fisher 69;
UW-Oshkosh 64; Washington & Jefferson 37; Maryville (Tenn.) 24;
Lake Forest 13; Johns Hopkins 10; Rutgers-Camden 9; Wittenberg 8;
Salisbury 7; Emmanuel 7; Mt. St. Mary 7; Wesleyan 5; Illinois
Wesleyan 3; Salem State 1.