Rankings entering the 2011 season:
| # | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Last rank |
| 1 | Heidelberg (19) | 42-8 | 608 | 4 |
| 2 | UW-Stevens Point (3) | 34-18 | 545 | 6 |
| 3 | Kean | 39-12 | 543 | 9 |
| 4 | Cortland State (1) | 40-10-1 | 493 | 2 |
| 5 | UW-Whitewater (1) | 42-7 | 462 | 8 |
| 6 | Johns Hopkins | 44-7 | 452 | 5 |
| 7 | Shenandoah | 38-10 | 420 | 7 |
| 8 | Linfield | 37-13 | 416 | 3 |
| 9 | Illinois Wesleyan (1) | 31-21 | 373 | 1 |
| 10 | St. Thomas | 35-9 | 361 | 10 |
| 11 | Chapman | 31-11 | 358 | 14 |
| 12 | Marietta | 36-13 | 351 | 13 |
| 13 | Mass-Boston | 32-17 | 274 | 12 |
| 14 | Tufts | 34-7 | 253 | 18 |
| 15 | Mississippi College | 39-11 | 242 | 15 |
| 16 | St. Scholastica | 38-8 | 236 | 19 |
| 17 | Wooster | 34-9 | 213 | 16 |
| 18 | Pomona-Pitzer | 31-11 | 200 | 17 |
| 19 | Wheaton (Mass.) | 34-10 | 167 | 21 |
| 20 | Trinity (Texas) | 32-9 | 156 | 20 |
| 21 | Keystone | 30-9 | 141 | -- |
| 22 | Texas-Tyler | 36-12 | 140 | 22 |
| 23 | Salisbury | 30-13 | 139 | 23 |
| 24 | Eastern Connecticut | 31-15 | 69 | -- |
| 25 | Plattsburgh State | 30-10 | 44 | -- |
Others receiving votes: Frostburg State 41, Rhodes 41, Pacific Lutheran 38, Buena Vista 38, Rowan 38, St. Joseph's (Maine) 22, North Central (Ill.) 22, UW-Oshkosh 21, Carthage 21, St. John Fisher 19, Endicott 18, Penn State-Behrend 15, North Park 13, Ripon 12, Texas Lutheran 12, Methodist 12, Webster 12, Rose-Hulman 9, Worcester State 8, Augustana 8, Franklin 8, Western New England 6, Thomas More 6, Adrian 6, Christopher Newport 6, DePauw 4, Mary Hardin-Baylor 4, Mary Washington 2, Millsaps 2, Wartburg 2, Anna Maria 2, Moravian 1.
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. Full members of NCAA Division III are eligible.