DALLAS (NCBWA) – Denison (19-1) received 24 first-place votes to remain the top team in the latest D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25. Lynchburg remains number two followed by Johns Hopkins (with the only other first place vote), Salve Regina and Shenandoah. New this week are Mary Washington and Texas Lutheran and Centre 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 (APRIL 7) | |||||
| Rk. | School [1st place] | Location | Record | Pts. | Pvs. |
| 1. | Denison [24] | Granville, Ohio | 19-1 | 624 | 1 |
| 2. | Lynchburg | Lynchburg, Va. | 20-3-1 | 587 | 2 |
| 3. | Johns Hopkins [1] | Baltimore, Md. | 23-4 | 571 | 3 |
| 4. | Salve Regina | Newport, R.I. | 17-2 | 554 | 4 |
| 5. | Shenandoah | Winchester, Va. | 26-4 | 496 | 6 |
| 6. | Rowan | Glassboro, N.J. | 16-3 | 460 | 7 |
| 7. | UW-Whitewater | Whitewater, Wis. | 14-3 | 455 | 8 |
| 8. | Kean | Union, N.J. | 19-5-1 | 430 | 5 |
| 9. | Bridgewater | Bridgewater, Va. | 23-5 | 421 | 10 |
| 10. | Kalamazoo | Kalamazoo, Mich. | 21-2 | 391 | 12 |
| 11. | Mount Union | Alliance, Ohio | 21-4 | 347 | 13 |
| 12. | Salisbury | Salisbury, Md. | 18-7 | 306 | 9 |
| 13. | Christopher Newport | Newport News, Va. | 20-7 | 299 | 16 |
| 14. | Washington U. | St. Louis, Mo. | 21-6 | 287 | 14 |
| 15. | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | Claremont, Calif. | 19-8 | 255 | 11 |
| 16. | Baldwin Wallace | Berea, Ohio | 17-5 | 243 | 18 |
| 17. | Pomona-Pitzer | Pomona, Calif. | 19-8 | 196 | 17 |
| 18. | Belhaven | Jackson, Miss. | 20-8 | 150 | 19 |
| 19. | Washington and Jefferson | Washington, Pa. | 17-3 | 143 | 22 |
| 20. | Rhodes | Memphis, Tenn. | 19-6 | 138 | 21 |
| 21. | Gettysburg | Gettysburg, Pa. | 20-6 | 120 | 15 |
| 22. | Endicott | Beverly, Mass. | 14-5 | 112 | 24 |
| 23. | Adrian | Adrian, Mich. | 17-6 | 100 | 25 |
| 24. | Piedmont | Demorest, Ga. | 20-9 | 70 | RV |
| 25. | Mary Washington | Fredericksburg. Va. | 19-7 | 62 | RV |
| Also receiving votes: Tufts 39, Wittenberg 39, Montclair State 26, Maryville (Tenn.) 25, Texas Lutheran 25, Cal Lutheran 21, Trinity (Texas) 20, Cortland 19, Centre 17, Mary Hardin-Baylor 9, Millikin 8, Sage 7, Swarthmore 7, Bates 5, Misericordia 4, Randolph-Macon 3, Transylvania 2, Eastern Connecticut State 1, Linfield 1. | |||||
| Dropped out: No. 20 Texas Lutheran, No. 23 Centre. | |||||
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