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 21) | |||||
| Rk. | School [1st place] | Location | Record | Pts. | Pvs. |
| 1. | Birmingham-Southern [19] | Birmingham, Ala. | 20-2 | 616 | 1 |
| 2. | Eastern Connecticut [6] | Willimantic, Conn. | 10-1 | 575 | 5 |
| 3. | Baldwin Wallace | Berea, Ohio | 13-2 | 564 | 4 |
| 4. | Salisbury | Salisbury, Md. | 13-3 | 543 | 2 |
| 5. | Shenandoah | Winchester, Va. | 16-2 | 528 | 6 |
| 6. | UW-Whitewater | Whitewater, Wis. | 4-0 | 479 | 8 |
| 7. | UW-Stevens Point | Stevens Point, Wis. | 5-2 | 433 | 3 |
| 8. | Endicott | Beverly, Mass. | 8-2 | 396 | 7 |
| 9. | Johns Hopkins | Baltimore, Md. | 12-2 | 391 | 10 |
| 10. | LaGrange | LaGrange, Ga. | 14-5 | 372 | 9 |
| 11. | Rowan | Glassboro, N.J. | 9-3 | 332 | 11 |
| 12. | Lynchburg | Lynchburg, Va. | 13-3 | 326 | 12 |
| 13. | Randolph-Macon | Ashland, Va. | 13-3 | 315 | 14 |
| 14. | Denison | Granville, Ohio | 9-3 | 306 | 13 |
| 15. | Catholic | Washington, D.C. | 11-2 | 300 | 15 |
| 16. | Christopher Newport | Newport News, Va. | 18-6 | 224 | 16 |
| 17. | North Central | Naperville, Ill. | 10-3 | 224 | 18 |
| 18. | Methodist | Fayetteville, N.C. | 15-3 | 195 | 17 |
| 19. | Trinity | San Antonio, Texas | 12-5 | 182 | 19 |
| 20. | Marietta | Marietta, Ohio | 11-5 | 162 | 20 |
| 21. | Cal Lutheran | Thousand Oaks, Calif. | 12-4 | 123 | 23 |
| 22. | Aurora | Aurora, Ill. | 7-2 | 118 | 22 |
| 23. | Montclair State | Montclair, N.J. | 6-1 | 106 | 24 |
| 24. | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | Claremont, Calif. | 16-6 | 71 | 21 |
| 25. | UW-Oshkosh | Oshkosh, Wis. | 8-2 | 65 | RV |
| Also receiving votes: Augustana (Ill.) 46, Wheaton (Mass.) 27, Pacific 19, Piedmont 18, Otterbein 12, Washington & Jefferson 6, Buena Vista 5, Rhodes 4, Misericordia 4, Arcadia 3, Bethel (Minn.) 3, Hendrix 3, Spalding 3, Washington (Mo.) 3, Maryville (Tenn.) 3, N.C. Wesleyan 3, Washington and Lee 2, Huntingdon 1, Mitchell 1. | |||||
| Dropped out: Maryville, Tenn. (25). | |||||
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