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 (APRIL 4) | |||||
| Rk. | School [1st place] | Location | Record | Pts. | Pvs. |
| 1. | Birmingham-Southern [17] | Birmingham. Ala. | 27-3 | 612 | 1 |
| 2. | Salisbury [5] | Salisbury, Md. | 20-3 | 591 | 2 |
| 3. | Shenandoah [2] | Winchester, Va. | 23-2 | 580 | 3 |
| 4. | Johns Hopkins [1] | Baltimore, Md. | 20-2 | 515 | 6 |
| 5. | Eastern Connecticut | Willimantic, Conn. | 17-3 | 510 | 4 |
| 6. | Baldwin Wallace | Berea, Ohio | 17-4 | 492 | 5 |
| 7. | Endicott | Beverly, Mass. | 15-3 | 463 | 7 |
| 8. | Lynchburg | Lynchburg, Va. | 20-3 | 435 | 11 |
| 9. | LaGrange | LaGrange, Ga. | 18-6 | 409 | 9 |
| 10. | UW-Whitewater | Whitewater, Wis. | 10-3 | 381 | 8 |
| 11. | Catholic | Washington, D.C. | 17-3 | 341 | 13 |
| 12. | Randolph-Macon | Ashland. Va. | 19-5 | 339 | 12 |
| 13. | Denison | Granville, Ohio | 14-4 | 331 | 15 |
| 14. | Christopher Newport | Newport News, Va. | 24-7 | 289 | 14 |
| 15. | Aurora | Aurora, Ill. | 12-2 | 250 | 17 |
| 16. | Marietta | Marietta, Ohio | 16-6 | 217 | 19 |
| 17. | Wheaton | Norton, Mass. | 15-3 | 191 | 21 |
| 18. | Methodist | Fayetteville, N.C. | 20-5 | 182 | 20 |
| 19. | Rowan | Glassboro, N.J. | 13-6 | 173 | 10 |
| 20. | UW-Stevens Point | Stevens Point, Wis. | 10-5 | 145 | 18 |
| 21. | Montclair State | Montclair, N.J. | 14-3 | 131 | 22 |
| 22. | UW-Oshkosh | Oshkosh, Wis. | 10-4 | 69 | RV |
| 23. | North Central | Naperville, Ill. | 11-6 | 59 | 16 |
| 24. | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | Claremont, Calif. | 18-7 | 58 | 23 |
| 25. | Augustana | Rock Island, Ill. | 16-4 | 51 | 25 |
| Also receiving votes: Trinity (Texas) 46, Middlebury 32, Southwestern (Texas) 31, N.C. Wesleyan 29, Misericordia 29, Arcadia 28, William Paterson 24, Mitchell 17, MSOE 16, UW-La Crosse 10, St. Joseph's (L.I.) 9, Mary Washington 8, Cal Lutheran 7, Mount Union 7, Lewis & Clark 5, Cortland 5, Hendrix 2, John Carroll 2, Buena Vista 1, Huntingdon 1, Willamette 1. | |||||
| Dropped out: Trinity, Texas (24). | |||||
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