Through games of Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025:
Top 25 archive | Previous polls by year
| # | School (No. 1 votes) | W-L | Pts. | Prev. |
| 1 | New York University (25) | 24-0 | 625 | 1 |
| 2 | Bowdoin | 25-0 | 589 | 3 |
| 3 | Illinois Wesleyan | 24-1 | 561 | 4 |
| 4 | Scranton | 24-1 | 549 | 2 |
| 5 | Whitman | 24-1 | 511 | 5 |
| 6 | Gustavus Adolphus | 24-1 | 498 | 6 |
| 7 | Baldwin Wallace | 24-1 | 431 | 9 |
| 8 | Christopher Newport | 24-1 | 418 | 8 |
| 9 | Smith | 23-2 | 402 | 10 |
| 10 | UW-Oshkosh | 22-3 | 392 | 7 |
| 11 | Trine | 23-2 | 387 | 11 |
| 12 | Gettysburg | 23-2 | 354 | 12 |
| 13 | Wartburg | 23-2 | 315 | 13 |
| 14 | Ohio Wesleyan | 23-2 | 289 | 14 |
| 15 | Catholic | 22-3 | 238 | 15 |
| 16 | Elizabethtown | 22-3 | 216 | 22 |
| 17 | Johns Hopkins | 21-3 | 214 | 16 |
| 18 | Randolph-Macon | 24-1 | 212 | 17 |
| 19 | Hope | 21-4 | 152 | 18 |
| 20 | Washington and Lee | 22-3 | 142 | 20 |
| 21 | Colorado College | 23-2 | 132 | 21 |
| 22 | UW-Stout | 19-6 | 131 | 19 |
| 23 | East Texas Baptist | 21-4 | 101 | 23 |
| 24 | Bethel | 21-4 | 79 | 25 |
| 25 | UW-Whitewater | 19-6 | 60 | 24 |
Dropped out: None
Others receiving votes: Messiah 51; Carnegie Mellon 35; Southern Virginia 14; McMurry 12; UW-Stevens Point 7; Mass-Dartmouth 5; Cortland 1; Washington and Jefferson 1; Western New England 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.