DALLAS (NCBWA) – Denison remains the number one team this week for the third straight week followed by Johns Hopkins, Lynchburg, Salve Regina and Salisbury. New this week are Kalamazoo, Cal Lutheran and Randolph-Macon. Randolph-Macon was the only team to be ranked previously this year. Gone this week are Case Western Reserve, Rhodes and UW-Oshkosh.
The D3baseball.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of 25 Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country, and is published weekly. Full members of NCAA Division III are eligible.
| 2026 NCBWA DIVISION III POLL (MARCH 15) | |||||
| Rk. | School [1st place] | Location | Record | Pts. | Pvs. |
| 1. | Denison [16] | Granville, Ohio | 9-1 | 611 | 1 |
| 2. | Johns Hopkins [6] | Baltimore, Md. | 11-2 | 574 | 3 |
| 3. | Lynchburg | Lynchburg, Va. | 12-3-1 | 522 | 5 |
| 4. | Salve Regina [1] | Newport, R.I. | 6-1 | 495 | 7 |
| 5. | Salisbury [1] | Salisbury, Md. | 10-3 | 485 | 2 |
| 6. | Kean [1 | Union, N.J. | 10-3-1 | 466 | 8 |
| 7. | Shenandoah | Winchester, Va. | 16-2 | 451 | 11 |
| 8. | Belhaven | Jackson, Miss. | 14-2 | 439 | 4 |
| 9. | Centre | Danville, Ky. | 14-2 | 423 | 12 |
| 10. | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | Claremont, Calif. | 13-4 | 351 | 13 |
| 11. | Texas Lutheran | Seguin, Texas | 16-3 | 347 | 16 |
| 12. | Washington | St. Louis, Mo. | 10-3 | 328 | 6 |
| 13. | Rowan | Glassboro, N.J. | 5-2 | 313 | 10 |
| 14. | Bridgewater | Bridgewater, Va. | 15-2 | 295 | 14 |
| 15. | UW-Whitewater | Whitewater, Wis. | 6-3 | 285 | 15 |
| 16. | Trinity | San Antonio, Texas | 8-5 | 250 | 9 |
| 17. | Mount Union | Alliance, Ohio | 13-3 | 201 | 21 |
| 18. | Gettysburg | Gettysburg, Pa. | 12-1 | 174 | 25 |
| 19. | Pomona-Pitzer | Pomona, Calif. | 12-6 | 160 | 18 |
| 20. | Christopher Newport | Newport News, Va, | 13-5 | 154 | 19 |
| 21. | Adrian | Adrian, Mich. | 7-4 | 109 | 17 |
| 22. | Kalamazoo | Kalamazoo, Mich, | 11-2 | 88 | RV |
| 23. | Cal Lutheran | Thousand Oaks, Calif. | 15-5 | 82 | RV |
| 24. | Roanoke | Salem, Va. | 12-4 | 66 | 23 |
| 25. | Randolph-Macon | Ashland, Va. | 9-4 | 54 | RV |
| Also receiving votes: Case Western Reserve 50, Endicott 41, Wooster 39, Chatham 37, Rhodes 32, Millikin 31, Baldwin Wallace 30, Mary Washington 30, Cortland 24, Mary Hardin-Baylor 21, Huntingdon 11, Saint Joseph's (Me.) 9, Tufts 9, Ohio Northern 8, Colby 7, Penn State-Harrisburg 6, Swarthmore 6, Elizabethtown 3, Piedmont 3, Drew 1, Gust. Adolphus 1. | |||||
| Dropped out: No. 20 Case Western Reserve, No. 22 Rhodes, No. 24 UW-Oshkosh. | |||||
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