UW-Whitewater, which returns three starters from a team which reached the Division III women's basketball Final Four in 2008, is No. 1 in the preseason D3hoops.com Top 25.

&&b-boxl&&It's the 10th season of the poll, which is voted on by a panel of 25 coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country, and is published weekly during the season.

Six teams received No. 1 votes in the poll, including defending national champion Howard Payne, which lost the D3hoops.com Coach of the Year and its top three scorers, including the D3hoops.com Player of the Year, Meia Daniels. Oglethorpe, which returns four starters from the team which made an improbable run to the Final Four, is the preseason No. 2 team and received three first-place votes, while conference rival DePauw was No. 3 and was in the top spot on two ballots. Kean was the preseason No. 4 team.

No. 5 University of Rochester, which returned all five starters, got two first-place votes, as did the Yellowjackets' UAA rival, No. 6 Washington University in St. Louis. Thomas More, Hope, Desales and Illinois Wesleyan round out the Top 10.

The full preseason D3hoops.com Top 25.