Through games of Sunday May 1, 2016
| # | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | Cortland (23) | 34-5 | 623 | 1 |
| 2 | Randolph-Macon (2) | 32-6-1 | 575 | 2 |
| 3 | Trinity (Texas) | 35-7 | 535 | 3 |
| 4 | UW-La Crosse | 26-7 | 516 | 5 |
| 5 | Birmingham-Southern | 37-11 | 508 | 4 |
| 6 | Emory | 30-10 | 463 | 8 |
| 7 | Oswego State | 29-7 | 446 | 10 |
| 8 | Shenandoah | 32-10 | 391 | 9 |
| 9 | Ramapo | 29-9-1 | 374 | 7 |
| 10 | Salisbury | 25-10 | 358 | 13 |
| 11 | UW-Whitewater | 22-9 | 353 | 6 |
| 12 | North Central (Ill.) | 26-6 | 328 | 15 |
| 13 | Occidental | 30-8 | 318 | 12 |
| 14 | Concordia-Chicago | 27-9 | 311 | 14 |
| 15 | St. Thomas | 23-9 | 256 | 11 |
| 16 | TCNJ | 28-8 | 205 | 16 |
| 17 | Frostburg State | 27-10 | 201 | 17 |
| 18 | La Roche | 30-8 | 187 | 20 |
| 19 | Southern Maine | 25-11 | 178 | 18 |
| 20 | Wartburg | 28-8 | 169 | 21 |
| 21 | Whitworth | 29-11 | 136 | 19 |
| 22 | Keystone | 27-8 | 97 | rv |
| 23 | Buena Vista | 26-8 | 92 | 23 |
| 24 | Cal Lutheran | 27-11 | 87 | 22 |
| 25 | Grinnell | 26-4 | 62 | rv |
Dropped out: No. 24 Centenary (La.), No. 25 Johns Hopkins.
Others receiving votes: St. John Fisher 43, McDaniel 43, Tufts 33, Wooster 26, Concordia Texas 25, Misericordia 18, Texas Lutheran 14, Johns Hopkins 14, Texas-Tyler 11, Case Western Reserve 11, Kean 11, Western New England 8, Wheaton (Mass.) 8, Centenary (La.) 8, Amherst 7, Marietta 6, Christopher Newport 5, St. Scholastica 4, Otterbein 4, LaGrange 2, Saint John's (Minn.) 2, Denison 1, Rutgers-Camden 1.
The D3baseball.com/NCBWA 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.