Records from 2017, Previous rankings from final 2017 D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25
The first Top 25 of the regular season will be posted February 27, 2018
| # | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | Cortland (10) | 38-9 | 602 | 8 |
| 2 | Cal Lutheran (13) | 40-11 | 584 | 1 |
| 3 | Washington and Jefferson (1) | 42-13 | 516 | 2 |
| 4 | UW-Whitewater | 36-9 | 492 | 15 |
| 5 | Mass-Boston | 38-12 | 480 | 4 |
| 6 | Concordia-Chicago | 34-13 | 445 | 7 |
| 7 | Birmingham-Southern | 39-10 | 412 | 10 |
| 8 | Johns Hopkins | 38-8 | 379 | 13 |
| 9 | North Central (Ill.) | 31-18 | 374 | 5 |
| 10 | LaGrange | 40-6 | 363 | 9 |
| 11 | Oswego State | 32-11 | 351 | 6 |
| 12 | Shenandoah | 41-10 | 337 | 11 |
| 13 | Keystone | 33-15 | 314 | rv |
| 14 | Wooster | 36-10 | 298 | 17 |
| 15 | Southern Maine (1) | 34-13 | 266 | 18 |
| 16 | Texas-Tyler | 39-9 | 258 | 16 |
| 17 | Roanoke | 35-19 | 255 | 3 |
| 18 | Salisbury | 35-11 | 203 | 14 |
| 19 | St. Thomas | 29-18 | 188 | rv |
| 20 | Centenary (La.) | 35-10 | 184 | 20 |
| 21 | Trinity (Texas) | 28-16 | 115 | - |
| 22 | Texas-Dallas | 33-11 | 101 | rv |
| 23 | TCNJ | 32-13 | 75 | rv |
| 24 | St. John Fisher | 31-12 | 71 | - |
| 25 | Wheaton (Mass.) | 27-17 | 62 | 12 |
Others recieving votes: Ithaca 42, Mount Union 32, Salve Regina 31, La Roche 28, St. Scholastica 28, Adrian 25, Ramapo 20, Tufts 19, Alvernia 18, Emory 18, Concordia (Texas) 18, RIT 16, Washington (Mo.) 14, UW-La Crosse 13, Kean 13, Chicago 12, Linfield 11, Rhodes 10, Otterbein 7, Catholic 3, Denison 3, Marietta 3, Rowan 3, Pacific Lutheran 2, Susquehanna 2, UW-Oshkosh 2, Randolph-Macon 2, Baldwin Wallace 1, Dubuque 1, Misericordia 1, Saint Joseph's (Me.) 1, Wheaton (Ill.) 1.
The D3baseball.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of 25 Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country, and is published weekly. Full members of NCAA Division III are eligible.