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 25) | |||||
| Rk. | School [1st place] | Location | Record | Pts. | Pvs. |
| 1. | Johns Hopkins [15] | Baltimore, Md. | 32-3 | 607 | 4 |
| 2. | Salisbury [7] | Salisbury, Md. | 26-4 | 599 | 1 |
| 3. | Shenandoah [2] | Winchester, Va. | 31-5 | 575 | 3 |
| 4. | Baldwin Wallace [1] | Berea, Ohio | 27-5 | 556 | 5 |
| 5. | Endicott | Beverly, Mass. | 26-5 | 504 | 6 |
| 6. | Lynchburg | Lynchburg, Va, | 29-5 | 493 | 7 |
| 7. | Birmingham-Southern | Birmingham, Ala. | 31-9 | 437 | 2 |
| 8. | Aurora | Aurora, Ill. | 26-3 | 427 | 11 |
| 9. | Christopher Newport | Newport News, Va. | 30-7 | 405 | 12 |
| 10. | Randolph-Macon | Ashland, Va. | 28-8 | 377 | 9 |
| 11. | Wheaton | Norton, Mass. | 27-5 | 345 | 15 |
| 12. | Eastern Connecticut | Willimantic, Conn, | 25-7 | 334 | 8 |
| 13. | Denison | Granville, Ohio | 25-7 | 327 | 14 |
| 14. | Marietta | Marietta, Ohio | 25-9 | 274 | 17 |
| 15. | Misericordia | Dallas, Pa. | 30-6 | 253 | 20 |
| 16. | UW-Oshkosh | Oshkosh, Wis. | 22-6 | 214 | 21 |
| 17. | Catholic | Washington, D.C. | 23-7 | 207 | 10 |
| 18. | UW-La Crosse | La Crosse, Wis | 22-6 | 200 | 25 |
| 19. | LaGrange | LaGrange, Ga. | 25-11 | 150 | 13 |
| 20. | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | Claremont, Calif. | 24-7 | 139 | 22 |
| 21. | Rowan | Glassboro, N.J. | 24-10 | 111 | 18 |
| 22. | Methodist | Fayetteville, N.C. | 27-8 | 109 | 16 |
| 23. | UW-Stevens Point | Stevens Point, Wis. | 20-9 | 81 | 23 |
| 24. | Buena Vista | Storm Lake, Iowa | 27-6 | 62 | RV |
| 25. | Augustana | Rock Island, Ill. | 26-6 | 55 | RV |
| Also receiving votes: Salve Regina 36, Elizabethtown 34, N.C. Wesleyan 32, St. Joseph's (L.I.) 30, East Texas Baptist 22, Penn St.-Harrisburg 21, UW-Whitewater 15, Arcadia 13, Cortland 13, Cal Lutheran 9, Lewis & Clark 9, La Verne 8, Rhode Island College 7, Huntingdon 5, Mitchell 4, North Central (Ill.) 4, Trinity (Texas) 4, Rhodes 3, Webster 2, Bethel (Minn.) 1, Hendrix 1, Southwestern (Texas) 1. | |||||
| Dropped out: UW-Whitewater (19), Cortland (24). | |||||
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