Preseason 2012 D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25
| # | School (1st votes) |
2011 |
Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | Marietta (25) | 47-4 | 625 | 1 |
| 2 | Chapman | 37-13 | 579 | 2 |
| 3 | Kean | 42-11 | 559 | 3 |
| 4 | Linfield | 33-11 | 496 | 9 |
| 5 | Cortland State | 36-10 | 481 | 13 |
| 6 | UW-Whitewater | 37-13 | 455 | 4 |
| 7 | Christopher Newport | 39-7 | 445 | 14 |
| 8 | UW-Stevens Point | 34-10 | 357 | 15 |
| 9 | Salisbury | 34-14 | 351 | 6 |
| 10 | Heidelberg | 36-13 | 348 | 11 |
| 11 | Alvernia | 38-9 | 321 | 16 |
| 12 | Eastern Connecticut | 34-13 | 304 | 20 |
| 13 | Buena Vista | 34-18 | 284 | 7 |
| 14 | St. Scholastica | 37-7 | 276 | 12 |
| 15 | Western New England | 42-11 | 274 | 10 |
| 16 | Keystone | 38-12 | 215 | 5 |
| 17 | Carthage | 32-12 | 207 | 17 |
| 18 | Wheaton (Mass.) | 32-12 | 196 | 22 |
| 19 | Thomas More | 29-9 | 185 | - |
| 20 | Redlands | 30-13 | 170 | - |
| 21 | Shenandoah | 37-7 | 152 | 8 |
| 22 | Trinity (Texas) | 34-13 | 106 | 19 |
| 23 | Texas-Tyler | 33-8 | 105 | 18 |
| 24 | Tufts | 27-9-1 | 72 | 21 |
| 25 | Birmingham-Southern | 30-9 | 56 | - |
Also receiving votes: Rowan 49, St. Thomas 45, Piedmont
44, Adrian 41, Johns Hopkins 39, Concordia-Austin 35, Coe 31,
Illinois Wesleyan 24, Aurora 24, Cal Lutheran 21, Concordia (Ill.)
20, North Park 16, Hardin-Simmons 15, St. John Fisher 11,
Washington U. 9, Southern Maine 8, TCNJ 8, La Roche 7, MIT 7,
Randolph-Macon 5, Amherst 5, Anderson 5, Misericordia 4, Augustana
4, Neumann 4, Pomona-Pitzer 4, Bridgewater State 4, Webster 3,
Rhodes 3, Louisiana College 2, Penn State-Altoona 2, Huntingdon 1,
Wheaton (Ill.) 1, Endicott 1, Frostburg State 1, Case Western
Reserve 1, Rhode Island College 1, Brockport State 1.
The D3baseball.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of 25 coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country, and is published weekly. Full members of NCAA Division III are eligible.
