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 PRESEASON POLL (JAN. 19) | |||||
| Rk. | School [1st place] | Location | Record | Pts. | Pvs. |
| 1. | Salisbury [24] | Salisbury, Md. | 34-4 | 622 | 1 |
| 2. | Cortland | Cortland, N.Y. | 33-9 | 580 | 4 |
| 3. | Marietta | Marietta, Ohio | 38-6 | 548 | 8 |
| 4. | Johns Hopkins | Baltimore, Md. | 15-6 | 473 | 10 |
| 5. | Adrian | Adrian, Mich. | 37-10 | 433 | 5 |
| 6. | UW-Whitewater | Whitewater, Wis. | 40-7 | 418 | 9 |
| 7. | Birmingham-Southern | Birmingham, Ala. | 28-16 | 394 | 16 |
| 8. | Aurora | Aurora, Ill. | 38-8 | 378 | 14 |
| 9. | Washington U. [1] | St. Louis, Mo. | 34-6 | 334 | 3 |
| 10. | Eastern Connecticut | Willimantic, Conn. | 32-8 | 330 | 19 |
| 11. | Chapman | Orange, Calif. | 15-6 | 327 | 22 |
| 12. | Rowan | Glassboro, N.J. | 29-6 | 326 | 7 |
| 13. | Southern Maine | Gorham, Maine | 34-11 | 299 | 12 |
| 14. | Webster | St. Louis, Mo. | 37-8 | 284 | 11 |
| 15. | Trinity | San Antonio, Texas | 28-9 | 262 | 17 |
| 16. | Wheaton | Norton, Mass. | 21-7 | 254 | 6 |
| 17. | Washington & Jefferson | Washington, Pa. | 37-3 | 237 | 13 |
| 18. | Pacific | Forest Grove, Ore. | 34-15 | 211 | 21 |
| 19. | North Carolina Wesleyan | Rocky Mount, N.C. | 33-10 | 180 | 24 |
| 20. | North Central | Naperville, Ill. | 38-9 | 165 | 18 |
| 21. | Denison | Granville, Ohio | 27-13 | 145 | 15 |
| 22. | Shenandoah | Winchester, Va. | 31-11 | 100 | RV |
| 23. | St. John Fisher | Pittsford, N.Y. | 31-7 | 95 | 23 |
| 24. | Tufts | Medford, Mass. | 15-8 | 88 | RV |
| 25. | Texas-Dallas | Richardson, Texas | 30-12 | 82 | RV |
| Also receiving votes: Lynchburg 71, Misericordia 71, Texas Lutheran 60, Northwestern (Minn.) 51, Keystone 35, York (Pa.) 32, Oswego 27, LaGrange 21, Millikin 16, Coe 15, Rhodes 15, Penn St.-Behrend 11, Mount Union 11, Salve Regina 11, Rochester 9, UW-La Crosse 8, Wooster 7, Centenary (La.) 7, Saint John's (Minn.) 7, Montclair St. 6, Piedmont 6, Gustavus Adolphus 5, UW-Stevens Point 4, William Paterson 4, Transylvania 4, Cal Lutheran 4, Randolph-Macon 3, Rose-Hulman 3, Scranton 3, UW-Oshkosh 3, Babson 2, East Texas Baptist 2, Baldwin Wallace 1, Pacific Lutheran 1, Swarthmore 1. | |||||
| Records are from the 2021 season | |||||
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