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 POLL (APRIL 11) | |||||
| Rk. | School [1st place] | Location | Record | Pts. | Pvs. |
| 1. | Birmingham-Southern [14] | Birmingham, Ala. | 29-4 | 604 | 1 |
| 2. | Salisbury [8] | Salisbury, Md. | 21-3 | 597 | 2 |
| 3. | Shenandoah [1] | Winchester, Va. | 26-3 | 576 | 3 |
| 4. | Baldwin Wallace [1] | Berea, Ohio | 19-4 | 538 | 6 |
| 5. | Johns Hopkins [1] | Baltimore, Md. | 23-3 | 520 | 4 |
| 6. | Endicott | Beverly, Mass. | 18-4 | 464 | 7 |
| 7. | Lynchburg | Lynchburg, Va. | 22-4 | 438 | 8 |
| 8. | Eastern Connecticut | Willimantic, Conn. | 19-5 | 425 | 5 |
| 9. | LaGrange | LaGrange, Ga. | 21-7 | 403 | 9 |
| 10. | Randolph-Macon | Ashland, Va. | 23-5 | 379 | 12 |
| 11. | Catholic | Washington, D.C. | 20-3 | 365 | 11 |
| 12. | UW-Whitewater | Whitewater, Wis. | 12-4 | 354 | 10 |
| 13. | Denison | Granville, Ohio | 19-5 | 317 | 13 |
| 14. | Aurora | Aurora, Ill. | 16-2 | 302 | 15 |
| 15. | Christopher Newport | Newport News, Va, | 25-7 | 299 | 14 |
| 16. | Methodist | Fayetteville, N.C. | 21-5 | 200 | 18 |
| 17. | Rowan | Glassboro, N.J. | 18-6 | 195 | 19 |
| 18. | Wheaton | Norton, Mass. | 18-4 | 187 | 17 |
| 19. | Marietta | Marietta, Ohio | 17-8 | 164 | 16 |
| 20. | UW-Oshkosh | Oshkosh, Wis. | 15-5 | 144 | 22 |
| 21. | Misericordia | Dallas, Pa. | 22-5 | 105 | RV |
| 22. | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | Claremont, Calif. | 18-7 | 81 | 24 |
| 23. | Trinity | San Antonio, Texas | 19-9 | 65 | RV |
| 24. | Southwestern | Georgetown, Texas | 20-5 | 51 | RV |
| 25. | UW-La Crosse | La Cross, Wis. | 16-5 | 46 | RV |
| Also receiving votes: UW-Stevens Point 40, Arcadia 34, Augustana (Ill.) 29, N.C. Wesleyan 29, Mitchell 26, Montclair St. 19, St. Joseph's (L.I.) 18, East Texas Baptist 18, Cortland 16, Cal Lutheran 13, Salve Regina 12, North Central (Ill.) 10, John Carroll 9, Buena Vista 8, Millikin 7, Middlebury 5, Penn St.-Harrisburg 5, Huntingdon 4, Rhodes 2, Bethel (Minn.) 1, Emory 1. | |||||
| Dropped out: UW-Stevens Point (20), Montclair State (21), North Central (22), No. 25 Augustana, Ill. (25). | |||||
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