Records from 2016, Previous rankings from final 2016 D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25
| # |
School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | Cortland (15) | 43-8 | 595 | 2 |
| 2 | Keystone (1) | 40-11 | 527 | 3 |
| 3 | UW-La Crosse | 39-10 | 523 | 4 |
| 4 | Emory (1) | 34-12 | 508 | 6 |
| 5 | La Roche | 43-12 | 505 | 5 |
| 6 | Birmingham-Southern | 39-13 | 455 | 10 |
| 7 | Trinity (Texas) (7) | 44-7 | 442 | 1 |
| 8 | St. John Fisher | 39-13 | 416 | 7 |
| 9 | UW-Whitewater | 34-17 | 414 | 9 |
| 10 | Randolph-Macon | 36-8-1 | 386 | 8 |
| 11 | Ramapo | 35-12-1 | 364 | 14 |
| 12 | Oswego State | 35-11 | 304 | 12 |
| 13 | Tufts | 35-8 | 299 | 13 |
| 14 | Wooster (1) | 37-13 | 253 | 17 |
| 15 | Concordia-Chicago | 34-13 | 220 | 16 |
| 16 | Shenandoah | 35-12 | 194 | 11 |
| 17 | Washington U. | 33-18 | 188 | rv |
| 18 | TCNJ | 32-12 | 155 | 19 |
| 19 | Kean | 30-18 | 149 | rv |
| 20 | Texas-Tyler | 32-19 | 102 | rv |
| 21 | Texas Lutheran | 26-15 | 92 | - |
| 22 | Cal Lutheran | 31-13 | 88 | 23 |
| 23 | Marietta | 28-17 | 78 | rv |
| 24 | Salisbury | 26-12 | 71 | 18 |
| 25 | North Central (Ill.) | 31-12 | 61 | 20 |
Others recieving votes: Wartburg 57, Whitworth 52, Mass.-Boston 48, Adrian 48, Saint John's (Minn.) 47, Susquehanna 46, Southern Maine 45, Webster 39, Occidental 36, Rose-Hulman 34, Haverford 30, Thomas More 22, Pacific Lutheran 22, William Paterson 21, Frostburg State 20, East Texas Baptist 17, Washington and Jefferson 17, Otterbein 15, Ithaca 14, Washington College 13, Misericordia 11, Widener 10, Concordia (Texas) 9, Buena Vista 7, MIT 7, Rhodes 7, Christopher Newport 6, St. Scholastica 6, Suffolk 6, Wheaton (Mass.) 6, LaGrange 4, St. Thomas (Minn.) 4, Case Western Reserve 3, Endicott 3, Johns Hopkins 3, Washington and Lee 3, Huntingdon 2, Ohio Northern 2, Alvernia 1, Linfield 1, Penn St.-Behrend 1, Salve Regina 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.