DALLAS (NCBWA) – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA polls with the NCBWA/D3baseball.com Division III Poll. Weekly polls continue through the NCAA Division III Championship.
The D3baseball.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.
| NCBWA/D3BASEBALL.COM DIVISION III POLL (MAY 17) | |||||
| Rk. | School [1st place] | Location | Record | Pts. | Pvs. |
| 1. | Eastern Connecticut [17] | Willimantic, Conn. | 39-3 | 612 | 1 |
| 2. | Marietta [7] | Marietta, Ohio | 38-5 | 600 | 2 |
| 3. | Birmingham-Southern [1] | Birmingham, Ala. | 38-8 | 594 | 3 |
| 4. | LaGrange [1] | LaGrange, Ga. | 37-6 | 578 | 4 |
| 5. | Webster | St. Louis, Mo. | 37-6 | 534 | 6 |
| 6. | Arcadia | Glenside, Pa. | 38-7 | 472 | 10 |
| 7. | Salisbury | Salisbury, Md. | 30-8 | 466 | 9 |
| 8. | Cortland | Cortland, N.Y. | 33-10 | 447 | 12 |
| 9. | UW-Whitewater | Whitewater, Wis. | 33-8 | 431 | 5 |
| 10. | Rowan | Glassboro, N.J. | 30-8 | 399 | 8 |
| 11. | Lynchburg | Lynchburg, Va. | 35-10 | 388 | 7 |
| 12. | UW-Stevens Point | Stevens Point, Wis. | 34-7 | 359 | 17 |
| 13. | Denison | Granville, Ohio | 33-9 | 300 | 19 |
| 14. | Shenandoah | Winchester, Va. | 34-10-1 | 282 | 20 |
| 15. | Trinity | San Antonio, Texas | 32-10 | 277 | 13 |
| 16. | Oswego State | Oswego, N.Y. | 29-10 | 262 | 11 |
| 17. | Chapman | Orange, Calif. | 31-11 | 207 | 14 |
| 18. | North Central | Naperville, Ill. | 33-12 | 200 | 15 |
| 19. | Endicott | Beverly, Mass. | 36-7 | 189 | 21 |
| 20. | Aurora | Aurora, Ill. | 33-9 | 176 | 16 |
| 21. | Baldwin Wallace | Berea, Ohio | 32-11 | 156 | 18 |
| 22. | Wheaton | Wheaton, Ill. | 30-10 | 124 | 24 |
| 23. | Brockport | Brockport, N.Y. | 33-9 | 77 | 22 |
| 24. | Washington and Jefferson | Washington, Pa. | 35-8 | 52 | RV |
| 25. | Montclair State | Montclair, N.J. | 31-11 | 49 | 23 |
| Also receiving votes: Ithaca 29, Bethel (Minn.) 27, La Verne 18, Cal Lutheran 17, Rochester 15, Texas-Dallas 11, Otterbein 9, Pomona-Pitzer 7, Kean 6, Christiopher Newport 5, William Paterson 5, Loras 4, St. John Fisher 4, East Texas Baptist 3, Salve Regina, Wooster 3, Mitchell 2, Randolph-Macon 2, Augustana 1, Immaculata 1. | |||||
| Dropped out: No. 25 La Verne. | |||||
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