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 14) | |||||
| Rk. | School [1st place] | Location | Record | Pts. | Pvs. |
| 1. | Birmingham-Southern [17] | Birmingham, Ala. | 17-1 | 616 | 1 |
| 2. | Salisbury [6] | Salisbury, Md. | 12-1 | 569 | 2 |
| 3. | UW-Stevens Point | Stevens Point, Wis. | 3-0 | 528 | 4 |
| 4. | Baldwin Wallace | Berea, Ohio | 11-2 | 517 | 6 |
| 5. | Eastern Connecticut [2] | Willimantic, Conn. | 5-0 | 512 | 3 |
| 6. | Shenandoah | Winchester, Va. | 11-2 | 453 | 9 |
| 7. | Endicott | Beverly, Mass. | 4-0 | 442 | 10 |
| 8. | UW-Whitewater | Whitewater, Wis. | 0-0 | 425 | 7 |
| 9. | LaGrange | LaGrange, Ga. | 10-5 | 361 | 8 |
| 10. | Johns Hopkins | Baltimore, Md. | 9-1 | 352 | 16 |
| 11. | Rowan | Glassboro, N.J. | 5-2 | 330 | 5 |
| 12. | Lynchburg | Lynchburg, Va. | 10-2 | 326 | 12 |
| 13. | Denison | Granville, Ohio | 6-2 | 304 | 11 |
| 14. | Randolph-Macon | Ashland, Va. | 11-2 | 294 | 15 |
| 15. | Catholic | Washington, D.C. | 11-2 | 286 | 13 |
| 16. | Christopher Newport | Newport News, Va. | 15-5 | 254 | 18 |
| 17. | Methodist | Fayetteville, N.C. | 13-1 | 241 | 19 |
| 18. | North Central | Naperville, Ill. | 7-2 | 205 | 22 |
| 19. | Trinity | San Antonio, Texas | 9-5 | 183 | 14 |
| 20. | Marietta | Marietta, Ohio | 8-4 | 177 | 20 |
| 21. | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | Claremont, Calif. | 15-4 | 118 | RV |
| 22. | Aurora | Aurora, Ill. | 7-2 | 102 | 23 |
| 23. | Cal Lutheran | Thousand Oaks, Calif. | 10-3 | 97 | RV |
| 24. | Montclair State | Montclair, N.J. | 6-1 | 55 | RV |
| 25. | Maryville | Maryville, Tenn. | 12-2 | 43 | 24 |
| Also receiving votes: UW-Oshkosh 36, Augustana (Ill.) 22, Arcadia 21, Ithaca 18, Hendrix 17, Washington & Jefferson 17, Piedmont 16, Benedictine 16, Webster 14, Otterbein 12, Cortland 12, William Paterson 11, Misericordia 11, Buena Vista 10, East Texes Baptist 9, Lewis & Clark 9, Mass.-Dartmouth 7, Millikin 7, N.C. Wesleyan 7, Spalding 6, Willamette 6, Mitchell 6, Huntingdon 4, Grove City 3, Pacific (Ore.) 2, Bethel (Minn.) 1, Chapman 1, Washington (Mo.) 1. | |||||
| Dropped out: Cortland (17), Ithaca (21), Piedmont (25). | |||||
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