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 (PRESEASON) | |||||
| Rk. | School [1st place] | Location | Record | Pts. | Pvs. |
| 1. | Salisbury [15] | Salisbury, Md. | 39-12 | 606 | 2 |
| 2. | Eastern Connecticut [8] | Willimantic, Conn. | 49-3 | 561 | 1 |
| 3. | LaGrange [1] | LaGrange, Ga. | 44-9 | 541 | 3 |
| 4. | Birmingham-Southern [1] | Birmingham, Ala. | 41-10 | 535 | 8 |
| 5. | Trinity | San Antonio, Texas | 38-13 | 501 | 6 |
| 6. | Marietta | Marietta, Ohio | 44-7 | 499 | 5 |
| 7. | Chapman | Orange, Calif. | 35-14 | 427 | 13 |
| 8. | UW-Stevens Point | Stevens Point, Wis. | 42-10 | 414 | 4 |
| 9. | UW-Whitewater | Whitewater, Wis. | 36-11 | 410 | 9 |
| 10. | Baldwin Wallace | Berea, Ohio | 37-13 | 388 | 7 |
| 11. | Rowan | Glassboro, N.J. | 33-10 | 360 | 11 |
| 12. | Endicott | Beverly, Mass. | 40-10 | 348 | 12 |
| 13. | Webster | St. Louis, Mo. | 38-8 | 318 | 18 |
| 14. | Cortland | Cortland, N.Y. | 35-12 | 270 | 19 |
| 15. | Arcadia | Glenside, Pa. | 40-9 | 250 | 16 |
| 16. | Lynchburg | Lynchburg, Va. | 36-12 | 203 | 21 |
| 17. | Oswego State | Oswego, N.Y. | 33-13 | 183 | 14 |
| 18. | Denison | Granville, Ohio | 35-11 | 173 | 15 |
| 19. | Ithaca | Ithaca, N.Y. | 34-14 | 164 | 20 |
| 20. | Catholic | Washington D.C. | 34-16 | 160 | 10 |
| 21. | Shenandoah | Winchester, Va. | 37-12-1 | 126 | 22 |
| 22. | Wooster | Wooster, Ohio | 35-17 | 124 | 17 |
| 23. | North Central (Ill.) | Naperville, Ill. | 35-14 | 67 | 24 |
| 24. | East Texas Baptist | Marshall, Texas | 33-13 | 61 | rv |
| 25. | Aurora | Aurora, Ill. | 36-11 | 56 | 23 |
| Also receiving votes: Cal Lutheran 53, Pomona-Pitzer 36, Washington & Jefferson 28, Texas Lutheran 23, Randolph-Macon 22, Bethel (Minn.) 21, Augustana 16, Texas-Dallas 14, Wheaton (Mass.) 13, Hendrix 12, Johns Hopkins 11, St. John Fisher 11, Middlebury 10, Rhodes 10, Southern Maine 9, Berry 7, La Verne 7, William Paterson 7, Millikin 5, Hope 5, Skidmore 4, Buena Vista 3, Centenary (La.) 3, Christopher Newport 3, Lebanon Valley 3, Franklin & Marshall 2, Lawrence 2, Gustavus Adolphus 1, Rochester 1, Swarthmore 1. | |||||
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