2018-19 WBCA
NCAA Division III Top 25 Coaches' Poll
Dec. 4, 2018
The WBCA NCAA Division III Top 25 Coaches' Poll with teams’ RECORDS THROUGH SUNDAY, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, first-place votes received in parenthesis and ranking in the Nov. 27, 2018 poll:
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| Rank | School | Record | Total Points | Previous Rank |
| 1 | Bowdoin (6) | 5-0 | 198 | 1 |
| 2 | Hope (1) | 5-0 | 188 | 2 |
| 3 | Amherst (1) | 5-1 | 178 | 3 |
| 4 | Thomas More | 7-0 | 175 | 5 |
| 5 | St. Thomas (MN) | 5-0 | 173 | 4 |
| 6 | Tufts | 6-0 | 167 | 6 |
| 7 | Chicago | 6-0 | 150 | 7 |
| 8 | Scranton | 6-0 | 140 | 9 |
| 9 | Messiah | 7-1 | 129 | 11 |
| 10 | George Fox | 5-1 | 126 | 8 |
| 11 | Trine | 6-1 | 109 | 12 |
| 12 | East Texas Baptist | 7-1 | 98 | 10 |
| 13 | Rochester Institute | 6-0 | 92 | 15 |
| 14 | Christopher Newport | 6-1 | 88 | 14 |
| 15 | Illinois Wesleyan | 5-2 | 86 | 13 |
| 16 | St. Joseph's (ME) | 6-0 | 83 | 16 |
| 17 | Mary Hardin-Baylor | 7-0 | 72 | 23 |
| 18 | Texas-Dallas | 5-1 | 61 | 17 |
| 19 | Wartburg | 5-1 | 51 | 19 |
| 20 | SUNY Geneseo | 8-0 | 50 | 22 |
| 21 | Wisconsin-Whitewater | 4-2 | 34 | 17 |
| 22 | Wisconsin-Oshkosh | 5-0 | 31 | NR |
| 23 | Emory and Henry | 6-1 | 28 | 21 |
| 24 | DePauw | 4-2 | 24 | 20 |
| 25 | Ithaca | 4-1 | 13 | NR |
Others receiving votes: Gettysburg (6-1) 11; Baldwin-Wallace (6-0) 10; Oglethorpe (6-1) 6; Misericordia (7-0) 5; Randolph-Macon (6-1) 5; Emory (5-2) 4; Washington-St. Louis (3-2) 4; Chapman (5-0) 3; Wheaton (IL) (4-2) 3; DeSales (5-2) 2; Eastern Connecticut State (4-2) 2; Mount Union (6-0) 1.
Dropped Out: Gettysburg (6-1); Washington-St. Louis (3-2).
The WBCA NCAA Division III Coaches Poll Committee is made up of nine head coaches at Division III institutions. All are members of the WBCA. The 2018-19 committee members are Brian Morehouse, non-voting chair (Hope), Renee DeVarney (Swarthmore), Kristen Dowling (Claremont-Mudd-Scripps), Alex Lang (Brooklyn), Jennifer Reimer (Case Western Reserve), Alex Richey (Oglethorpe), Mia Smith (Illinois Wesleyan), Daphne Thompson (SUNY Oneonta) and Kelly Thompson (Roger Williams).