Through games of Sunday, Jan. 11:
| # | School (No. 1 votes) | W-L | Pts. | Prev. |
| 1 | New York University (18) | 12-0 | 617 | 1 |
| 2 | Scranton (6) | 13-0 | 603 | 2 |
| 3 | UW-Oshkosh (1) | 14-0 | 570 | 3 |
| 4 | Smith | 12-0 | 536 | 4 |
| 5 | Johns Hopkins | 13-0 | 533 | 5 |
| 6 | Washington and Lee | 13-0 | 481 | 6 |
| 7 | UW-Whitewater | 12-2 | 435 | 8 |
| 8 | Bowdoin | 11-1 | 402 | 10 |
| 9 | Emory | 11-1 | 395 | 9 |
| 10 | John Carroll | 12-1 | 374 | 11 |
| 11 | Hope | 12-2 | 355 | 7 |
| 12 | Ohio Wesleyan | 12-1 | 351 | 12 |
| 13 | Washington U. | 10-2 | 346 | 14 |
| 14 | Bates | 13-1 | 329 | 13 |
| 15 | Denison | 14-0 | 265 | 16 |
| 16 | Illinois Wesleyan | 10-4 | 251 | 17 |
| 17 | Baldwin Wallace | 12-2 | 194 | 20 |
| 18 | Chicago | 8-3 | 184 | 15 |
| 19 | UW-Platteville | 13-1 | 149 | -- |
| 20 | Carroll | 10-4 | 140 | 21 |
| 21 | Bethel | 10-3 | 116 | 22 |
| 22 | Shenandoah | 11-2 | 62 | 23 |
| 23 | Cortland | 10-2 | 51 | -- |
| 24 | Ripon | 13-2 | 50 | -- |
| 25 | Christopher Newport | 14-3 | 47 | -- |
Dropped out: No. 18 Trinity (Conn.); No. 19 Amherst; No. 24 UW-Eau Claire; No. 25 Concordia-Moorhead
Others receiving votes: Trinity (Conn.) 43; Amherst 33; Concordia-Moorhead 31; Trine 29; McDaniel 25; Coe 22; UW-Eau Claire 20; Southern Maine 18; Cal Lutheran 12; Saint Mary's (Minn.) 12; Wisconsin Lutheran 9; William Paterson 7; Bridgewater 6; Elizabethtown 4; Hardin-Simmons 4; Springfield 3; Susquehanna 3; Calvin 2; Wartburg 2; Centre 1; Gustavus Adolphus 1; Messiah 1; Redlands 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. Points are awarded on a 25-24-23-22-etc. basis.