Through games of Sunday, Jan. 4:
| # | School (No. 1 votes) | W-L | Pts. | Prev. |
| 1 | New York University (16) | 10-0 | 615 | 1 |
| 2 | Scranton (8) | 11-0 | 608 | 2 |
| 3 | UW-Oshkosh (1) | 12-0 | 565 | 3 |
| 4 | Smith | 10-0 | 538 | 4 |
| 5 | Johns Hopkins | 11-0 | 534 | 5 |
| 6 | Washington and Lee | 11-0 | 485 | 8 |
| 7 | Hope | 11-1 | 455 | 9 |
| 8 | UW-Whitewater | 10-2 | 394 | 10 |
| 9 | Emory | 10-1 | 385 | 7 |
| 10 | Bowdoin | 9-1 | 372 | 6 |
| 11 | John Carroll | 10-1 | 360 | 11 |
| 12 | Ohio Wesleyan | 11-1 | 339 | 16 |
| 13 | Bates | 11-1 | 310 | 12 |
| 14 | Washington U. | 9-2 | 275 | 18 |
| 15 | Chicago | 8-2 | 261 | 21 |
| 16 | Denison | 13-0 | 223 | 20 |
| 17 | Illinois Wesleyan | 9-4 | 214 | 13 |
| 18 | Trinity (Conn.) | 10-2 | 207 | 17 |
| 19 | Amherst | 9-1 | 144 | 15 |
| 20 | Baldwin Wallace | 11-2 | 132 | 23 |
| 21 | Carroll | 8-4 | 99 | 14 |
| 22 | Bethel | 7-4 | 90 | 19 |
| 23 | Shenandoah | 10-1 | 89 | 24 |
| 24 | UW-Eau Claire | 11-1 | 74 | -- |
| 25 | Concordia-Moorhead | 10-1 | 71 | -- |
Dropped out: No. 22 Elizabethtown; No. 25 Colby
Others receiving votes: UW-Platteville 53; Calvin 46; Ripon 44; Cortland 29; Christopher Newport 22; McDaniel 13; Gettysburg 12; St. Mary's (Minn.) 9; Redlands 8; Southern Maine 8; Coe 7; Elizabethtown 6; Susquehanna 6; Wisconsin Lutheran 6; Cal Lutheran 5; UW-La Crosse 5; Hardin-Simmons 2; Widener 2; Bridgewater 1; Springfield 1; William Paterson 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.