DALLAS (NCBWA) – Denison remains the number one team this week for the fourth straight week after a sweep of NWC teams. The Big Red received 24 first place votes with Salve Regina getting the final first place nod. They are followed by Lynchburg, Salve Regina, Johns Hopkins and Kean. New this week are Rhodes and Baldwin-Wallace as Roanoke and Randolph-Macon dropped out this week.
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 22) | |||||
| Rk. | School [1st place] | Location | Record | Pts. | Pvs. |
| 1. | Denison [24] | Granville, Ohio | 14-1 | 624 | 1 |
| 2. | Lynchburg | Lynchburg, Va. | 15-3-1 | 561 | 3 |
| 3. | Salve Regina [1] | Newport, R.I. | 10-1 | 553 | 4 |
| 4. | Johns Hopkins | Baltimore, Md. | 16-4 | 541 | 2 |
| 5. | Kean | Union, N.J. | 13-3-1 | 488 | 6 |
| 6. | Shenandoah | Winchester, Va. | 19-3 | 465 | 7 |
| 7. | Salisbury | Salisbury, Md. | 13-5 | 453 | 5 |
| 8. | Belhaven | Jackson, Miss. | 17-3 | 433 | 8 |
| 9. | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | Claremont, Calif. | 16-5 | 360 | 10 |
| 10. | Washington | St. Louis, Mo. | 15-3 | 349 | 12 |
| 11. | Rowan | Glassboro, N.J. | 8-2 | 343 | 13 |
| 12. | UW-Whitewater | Whitewater, Wis. | 8-3 | 332 | 15 |
| 13. | Bridgewater | Bridgewater, Va. | 17-3 | 323 | 14 |
| 14. | Centre | Danville, Ky. | 14-5 | 234 | 9 |
| 15. | Mount Union | Alliance, Ohio | 16-4 | 206 | 17 |
| 16. | Texas Lutheran | Seguin, Texas | 17-6 | 197 | 11 |
| 17. | Trinity (Texas) | San Antonio, Texas | 12-7 | 183 | 16 |
| 18. | Pomona-Pitzer | Pomona, Calif. | 14-7 | 181 | 19 |
| 19. | Christopher Newport | Newport News, Va. | 15-5 | 178 | 20 |
| 20. | Kalamazoo | Kalamazoo, Mich. | 14-2 | 144 | 22 |
| 21. | Gettysburg | Gettysburg, Pa. | 15-3 | 142 | 18 |
| 22. | Adrian | Adrian, Mich, | 11-4 | 120 | 21 |
| 23 | Rhodes | Memphis, Tenn. | 15-4 | 112 | RV |
| 24. | Cal Lutheran | Thousand Oaks, Calif. | 17-5 | 87 | 23 |
| 25. | Baldwin Wallace | Berea, Ohio | 12-3 | 83 | RV |
| Also receiving votes: Randolph-Macon 62, Tufts 58, Roanoke 39, Millikin 37, Washington and Jefferson 27, Swarthmore 24, Bates 23, Huntingdon 23, Wooster 22, Endicott 21, Manhattanville 20, East Tex. Baptist 16, Eastern Connecticut State 16, Cortland 13, Mary Hardin-Baylor 9, Case Western Reserve 7, Montclair State 5, Ursinus 4, Chatham 2, UW-Platteville 2, Bethany Lutheran 1, McDaniel 1, Penn State-Harrisburg 1. | |||||
| Dropped out: No. 24 Roanoke, No. 25 Randolph-Macon. | |||||
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