2017-18 WBCA
NCAA Division III Top 25 Coaches Poll
Nov. 21, 2017
The WBCA NCAA Division III Top 25 Coaches Poll with teams’ records from the 2017-18 season, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, first-place votes received in parenthesis and ranking in the 2017-18 preseason poll:
| Rank | School | Record | Total Points | Previous Rank |
| 1 | Amherst (6) | 2-0 | 197 | 1 |
| 2 | Tufts (2) | 2-0 | 194 | 2 |
| 3 | Christopher Newport | 3-0 | 184 | 4 |
| 4 | Hope | 2-0 | 162 | 10 |
| 5 | Wisconsin-Oshkosh | 2-0 | 158 | 12 |
| 6 | DePauw | 2-0 | 130 | 15 |
| 7 | St Thomas (MN) | 1-1 | 126 | 3 |
| 8 | Trine | 3-0 | 121 | 16 |
| 9 | Whitman | 2-1 | 118 | 9 |
| 10 | Scranton | 2-0 | 116 | 13 |
| 11 | Rochester (NY) | 2-0 | 114 | 24 |
| 12 | George Fox | 2-0 | 100 | 22 |
| 13 | Bowdoin | 2-0 | 99 | 23 |
| 14 (tie) | Trinity (TX) | 1-1 | 96 | 7 |
| 14 (tie) | Wartburg | 0-0 | 96 | 14 |
| 16 | Thomas More | 1-1 | 94 | 5 |
| 17 | Ohio Northern | 1-1 | 86 | 6 |
| 18 | Ithaca | 2-0 | 70 | NR |
| 19 | Washington-St. Louis | 1-1 | 60 | 8 |
| 20 | Puget Sound | 1-1 | 57 | 10 |
| 21 | Messiah | 3-0 | 48 | NR |
| 22 | Gustavus Adolphus | 1-0 | 30 | 18 |
| 23 | Massachusetts-Dartmouth | 2-0 | 19 | NR |
| 24 | Wheaton (IL) | 2-0 | 15 | NR |
| 25 (tie) | Chicago | 2-1 | 14 | 25 |
| 25 (tie) | Wisconsin-Whitewater | 2-0 | 14 | NR |
Dropped Out: Montclair State (2-1); Mary Washington (1-2); Fairleigh Dickinson-Florham (2-1) ; SUNY Geneseo (2-1).
Others receiving votes: Montclair State (2-1) 11; Texas-Tyler (1-0) 10; Babson (2-0) 9; Wisconsin Lutheran (1-1) 9;
Catholic (2-0) 7; Baldwin-Wallace (3-0) 5; Gettysburg (2-0) 5; Mary Washington (1-2) 5; Fairleigh Dickinson-Florham (2-1) 4;
Illinois Wesleyan (2-0) 4; Muhlenberg (3-0) 4; Oglethorpe (1-0) 4; Rochester Institute (2-0) 2; Bluffton (1-0) 1;
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (1-1) 1; SUNY Geneseo (2-1) 1.
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 2017-18 committee members are Mary Beth Spirk, non-voting chair (Moravian ), Kristen Dowling (Claremont-Mudd-Scripps), Renee DeVarney (Swarthmore), Jessica Ott (Alverno), Kate Pearson (Cabrini), Jennifer Reimer (Case Western Reserve), Alex Richey (Oglethorpe), Dan Roiger (Saint Lawrence) and Kelly Thompson (Roger Williams).