Entering the 2024-25 season:
| # | School (No. 1 votes) | W-L | Pts. |
| 1 | New York University (24) | 31-0 | 621 |
| 2 | Wartburg | 29-3 | 562 |
| 3 | Scranton | 28-3 | 538 |
| 4 | UW-Whitewater (1) | 26-5 | 499 |
| 5 | Bowdoin | 28-3 | 487 |
| 6 | Johns Hopkins | 26-4 | 453 |
| 7 | Washington and Lee | 29-3 | 419 |
| 8 | UW-Oshkosh | 24-6 | 413 |
| 9 | Christopher Newport | 27-2 | 411 |
| 10 | Illinois Wesleyan | 23-6 | 385 |
| 11 | Gustavus Adolphus | 25-3 | 334 |
| 12 | Hope | 26-4 | 320 |
| 13 | UW-Stout | 23-8 | 305 |
| 14 | Smith | 30-4 | 288 |
| 15 | Gettysburg | 24-4 | 222 |
| 16 | Catholic | 26-3 | 219 |
| 17 | Transylvania | 31-1 | 186 |
| 18 | Washington U. | 17-9 | 184 |
| 19 | Baldwin Wallace | 22-7 | 173 |
| 20 | Rhode Island College | 29-1 | 167 |
| 21 | Carroll | 23-5 | 161 |
| 22 | SUNY New Paltz | 25-4 | 116 |
| 23 | Trine | 22-8 | 114 |
| 24 | DePauw | 22-8 | 90 |
| 25 | Hardin-Simmons | 26-4 | 78 |
Others receiving votes: Bates 76; Mass-Dartmouth 70; Elizabethtown 54; Messiah 30; Vassar 30; Trinity (Texas) 28; Whitman 21; Concordia-Moorhead 19; Emory 19; Denison 16; Chatham 10; Loras 3; Wisconsin Lutheran 2; Springfield 1; Washington and Jefferson 1.
The D3hoops.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. Points are awarded on a 25-24-23-22-etc. basis.