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 (MAY 16) | |||||
| Rk. | School [1st place] | Location | Record | Pts. | Pvs. |
| 1. | Johns Hopkins [23] | Baltimore, Md. | 39-4 | 622 | 1 |
| 2. | Salisbury [2] | Salisbury, Md. | 30-5 | 583 | 3 |
| 3. | Shenandoah | Winchester, Va. | 38-7 | 549 | 2 |
| 4. | Endicott | Beverly, Mass. | 39-6 | 546 | 4 |
| 5. | Aurora | Aurora, Ill. | 39-4 | 514 | 6 |
| 6. | Lynchburg | Lynchburg, Va, | 38-6 | 510 | 5 |
| 7. | Birmingham-Southern | Birmingham, Ala. | 36-9 | 454 | 7 |
| 8. | Wheaton | Norton, Mass. | 37-6 | 441 | 8 |
| 9. | Denison | Granville, Ohio | 34-8 | 402 | 11 |
| 10. | Christopher Newport | Newport News, Va. | 31-9 | 365 | 10 |
| 11. | Marietta | Marietta, Ohio | 34-11 | 351 | 12 |
| 12. | Baldwin Wallace | Berea, Ohio | 31-10 | 331 | 9 |
| 13. | UW-La Crosse | La Crosse, Wis. | 31-9 | 328 | 15 |
| 14. | Eastern Connecticut | Willimantic, Conn. | 34-10 | 277 | 14 |
| 15. | UW-Stevens Point | Stevens Point, Wis. | 29-11 | 240 | 13 |
| 16. | Salve Regina | Newport, R.I. | 37-8-1 | 215 | 18 |
| 17. | Augustana | Augustana, Ill. | 38-7 | 204 | 17 |
| 18. | North Carolina Wesleyan | Rocky Mount, N.C. | 35-8 | 187 | 20 |
| 19. | East Texas Baptist | Marshall, Texas | 35-11 | 150 | 22 |
| 20. | Randolph-Macon | Ashland, Va. | 31-13 | 128 | 16 |
| 21. | Arcadia | Glenside, Pa. | 32-12 | 123 | rv |
| 22. | Cortland | Cortland, N.Y. | 32-11 | 102 | 25 |
| 23. | Rowan | Glassboro, N.J. | 30-13 | 74 | 24 |
| 24. | Buena Vista | Storm Lake, Iowa | 30-9 | 68 | 23 |
| 25. | Catholic | Washington, D.C. | 26-11 | 57 | 21 |
| Also receiving votes: UW-Whitewater 37, Misericordia 32, Tufts 29, Claremont-Mudd-Scripts 23, Penn St.-Harrisburg 23, La Verne 18, Rhode Island College 17, Cal Lutheran 17, Webster 12, UW-Oshkosh 11, Trinity (Texas) 11, St. Joseph's (L.I.) 11, Mitchell 10, Elizabethtown 8, Ithaca 7, Roanoke 7, Methodist 6, Lewis & Clark 4, Emory 3, Bethel (Minn.) 3, Case Western 3, John Carroll 3, Mary Washington 1, Pacific 1. | |||||
| Dropped out: Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (19). | |||||
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