DALLAS (NCBWA) – Trinity (Texas) sits atop the D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25 after taking a four game series, 3-1, from defending National Champion UW-Whitewater. Six other schools have received at least one first place vote with Trinity (Texas) receiving the most with 15
This is the first Division III Regular season poll of 2026.
| 2026 NCBWA DIVISION III POLL (FEB. 25) | |||||
| Rk. | School [1st place] | Location | Record | Pts. | Pvs. |
| 1. | Trinity [15] | San Antonio, Texas | 3-1 | 576 | 9 |
| 2. | Lynchburg [4] | Lynchburg, Va. | 4-1 | 559 | 6 |
| 3. | Kean [3] | Union, N.J. | 4-1 | 551 | 4 |
| 4. | Salisbury [1] | Salisbury, Md. | 3-1 | 532 | 5 |
| 5. | Denison | Granville, Ohio | 1-1 | 516 | 3 |
| 6. | UW-Whitewater [1] | Whitewater, Wis. | 1-3 | 461 | 1 |
| 7. | Endicott [1] | Beverly, Mass. | 1-2 | 426 | 2 |
| 8. | Rowan | Glassboro, N.J. | 0-0 | 390 | 8 |
| 9. | Salve Regina | Newport, R.I. | 2-1 | 386 | 10 |
| 10. | Johns Hopkins | Baltimore, Md. | 2-1 | 364 | 11 |
| 11. | Case Western Reserve | Cleveland, Ohio | 3-0 | 357 | 14 |
| 12. | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | Claremont, Calif. | 4-2 | 353 | 12 |
| 13. | Centre | Danville, Ky. | 5-1 | 330 | 17 |
| 14. | Adrian | Adrian, Mich. | 2-0 | 229 | 20 |
| 15. | Messiah | Mechanicsburg, Pa. | 0-2 | 216 | 7 |
| 16. | Cortland | Cortland, N.Y. | 1-2 | 208 | 13 |
| 17. | UW-Oshkosh | Oshkosh, Wis. | 0-0 | 203 | 18 |
| 18. | Belhaven | Jackson, Miss. | 4-0 | 184 | rv |
| 19. | Pomona-Pitzer | Pomona, Calif. | 7-4 | 150 | 19 |
| 20. | Washington U. | St. Louis, Mo. | 3-0 | 121 | rv |
| 21. | La Verne | La Verne, Calif. | 2-3 | 103 | 16 |
| 22. | Christopher Newport | Newport, News, Va. | 5-1 | 99 | - |
| 23. | Penn State-Harrisburg | Harrisburg, Pa. | 2-1 | 97 | 21 |
| 24. | UW-La Crosse | La Crosse, Wis. | 0-0 | 71 | 23 |
| 25. | Randolph-Macon | Ashland, Va. | 2-1 | 63 | rv |
| Also receiving votes: Concordia (Texas) 59, Webster 50, Rhodes 43, Keystone 41, Baldwin Wallace 36, Mount Union 32, Cal Lutheran 26, Texas Lutheran 24, Kalamazoo 23, Shenandoah 23, Berry 21, Transylvania 21, Millikin 20, Alvernia 18, Mary Hardin-Baylor 18, Linfield 15, Babson 13, Catholic 13, Coe 12, Gustavus Adolphus 9, Montclair State 9, North Central (Ill.) 8, Elizabethtown 7, Chatham 6, Huntingdon 6, Chicago 5, Coast Guard 5, East Texax Baptist 5, Arcadia 4, McMurry 4, Penn State-Behrend 3, Washington & Jefferson 1. | |||||
| Dropped out: Dropped out: No. 15. Webster, No 22. McMurry, No. 24 Keystone, No. 25 East Texas Baptist. | |||||
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