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 (MARCH 7) | |||||
| Rk. | School [1st place] | Location | Record | Pts. | Pvs. |
| 1. | Birmingham-Southern [15] | Birmingham, Ala. | 13-1 | 615 | 2 |
| 2. | Salisbury [8] | Salisbury, Md. | 8-1 | 598 | 1 |
| 3. | Eastern Connecticut [2] | Willimantic, Conn. | 3-0 | 539 | 3 |
| 4. | UW-Stevens Point | Stevens Point, Wis. | 3-0 | 512 | 6 |
| 5. | Rowan | Glassboro, N.J. | 3-0 | 476 | 8 |
| 6. | Baldwin Wallace | Berea, Ohio | 8-2 | 458 | 5 |
| 7. | UW-Whitewater | Whitewater, Wis. | 0-0 | 449 | 7 |
| 8. | LaGrange | LaGrange, Ga. | 8-4 | 433 | 4 |
| 9. | Shenandoah | Winchester, Va. | 10-1 | 418 | 11 |
| 10. | Endicott | Beverly, Mass. | 1-0 | 404 | 9 |
| 11. | Denison | Granville, Ohio | 5-0 | 378 | 12 |
| 12. | Lynchburg | Lynchburg, Va. | 8-1 | 323 | 13 |
| 13. | Catholic | Washington, D.C. | 7-1 | 306 | 14 |
| 14. | Trinity | San Antonio, Texas | 8-4 | 291 | 10 |
| 15. | Randolph-Macon | Ashland, Va. | 8-0 | 277 | 23 |
| 16. | Johns Hopkins | Baltimore, Md. | 5-0 | 264 | 25 |
| 17. | Cortland | Cortland, N.Y. | 5-3 | 198 | 20 |
| 18. | Christopher Newport | Newport News, Va. | 11-4 | 175 | 18 |
| 19. | Methodist | Fayetteville, N.C. | 11-0 | 143 | RV |
| 20. | Marietta | Marietta, Ohio | 5-4 | 119 | 15 |
| 21. | Ithaca | Ithaca, N.Y. | 4-2 | 96 | 19 |
| 22. | North Central | Naperville, Ill. | 5-2 | 88 | 21 |
| 23. | Aurora | Aurora, Ill. | 4-0 | 83 | RV |
| 24. | Maryville | Maryville, Tenn. | 11-0 | 74 | RV |
| 25. | Piedmont | Demorest, Ga. | 9-3 | 62 | RV |
| Also receiving votes: Webster 54, Cal Lutheran 50, Arcadia 32, UW-Oshkosh 31, Claremont-Mudd-Scripts 27, Buena Vista 25, Washington & Jefferson 24, Hendrix 16, Penn St.-Harrisburg 13, Montclair State 10, Augustana (Ill.) 9, Wooster 9, Lewis & Clark 7, Millikin 5, Gustavus Adolphus 4, Misericordia 2, N.C. Wesleyan 2, Kean 1, Mount Union 1, Spalding 1, Whitman 1. | |||||
| Dropped out: Arcadia (16), Webster (17), Oswego State (22), Chapman (24). | |||||
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