Through games of Sunday May 15, 2016
| # | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | Cortland (24) | 37-5 | 624 | 1 |
| 2 | Randolph-Macon (1) | 32-6-1 | 581 | 2 |
| 3 | Trinity (Texas) | 35-7 | 570 | 3 |
| 4 | UW-La Crosse | 34-8 | 552 | 4 |
| 5 | Birmingham-Southern | 37-11 | 497 | 5 |
| 6 | Emory | 30-10 | 490 | 6 |
| 7 | Oswego State | 32-9 | 429 | 7 |
| 8 | Ramapo | 33-10-1 | 408 | 8 |
| 9 | Shenandoah | 32-10 | 387 | 9 |
| 10 | Salisbury | 25-10 | 378 | 10 |
| 11 | La Roche | 36-9 | 367 | 12 |
| 12 | Cal Lutheran | 31-11 | 304 | 14 |
| 13 | Concordia-Chicago | 32-11 | 262 | 19 |
| 14 | UW-Whitewater | 29-14 | 247 | 15 |
| 15 | Keystone | 33-9 | 223 | 21 |
| 16 | North Central (Ill.) | 30-10 | 211 | 13 |
| 17 | Southern Maine | 29-13 | 175 | 11 |
| 18 | Whitworth | 29-11 | 170 | 20 |
| 19 | Wartburg | 33-11 | 168 | 16 |
| 20 | TCNJ | 30-10 | 154 | 18 |
| 21 | Tufts | 32-6 | 136 | rv |
| 22 | Occidental | 32-10 | 126 | 17 |
| 23 | Wheaton (Mass.) | 30-11 | 125 | 25 |
| 24 | Misericordia | 34-11 | 104 | rv |
| 25 | St. John Fisher | 34-11 | 67 | rv |
Dropped out: No. 22 Buena Vista, No. 23 Frostburg State, No. 24 St. Thomas (Minn.).
Others receiving votes: Wooster 64, Frostburg State 57, St. Scholastica 33, Buena Vista 26, Mass-Boston 19, Case Western Reserve 19, Augustana (Ill.) 19, Marietta 18, Luther 16, St. Thomas (Minn.) 11, Old Westbury 11, McDaniel 10, Otterbein 9, Johns Hopkins 8, Saint John's (Minn.) 6, Texas Lutheran 5, Haverford 5, Grinnell 4, Ohio Wesleyan 3, Ithaca 2, Rose-Hulman 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.