Through games of Dec. 16, 2001:
| # | Team | W-L | Pts. | Wk4 |
| 1 | Washington U. (22) | 10-0 | 622 | 1 |
| 2 | Hope (3) | 8-0 | 594 | 2 |
| 3 | Eastern Connecticut | 8-0 | 533 | 5 |
| 4 | New York U. | 8-0 | 525 | 4 |
| 5 | King's | 9-0 | 495 | 7 |
| 6 | George Fox | 8-0 | 471 | 6 |
| 7 | Hardin-Simmons | 6-0 | 443 | 9 |
| 8 | Bowdoin | 6-0 | 432 | 10 |
| 9 | Scranton | 5-1 | 378 | 11 |
| 10 | Emmanuel | 8-1 | 367 | 3 |
| 11 | Messiah | 8-1 | 361 | 12 |
| 12 | Simpson | 7-0 | 312 | 15 |
| 13 | St. Thomas | 7-1 | 310 | 13 |
| 14 | UW-Stevens Point | 9-1 | 295 | 14 |
| 15 | Capital | 8-1 | 268 | 16 |
| 16 | St. Benedict | 6-1 | 267 | 17 |
| 17 | UW-Eau Claire | 9-1 | 221 | 8 |
| 18 | Wilmington | 8-0 | 209 | 20 |
| 19 | St. Lawrence | 6-1 | 171 | 18 |
| 20 | UW-Stout | 8-2 | 167 | --- |
| 21 | Johns Hopkins | 9-1 | 107 | 21 |
| 22 | Case Western Reserve |
7-1 | 96 | 23 |
| 23 | Southern Maine | 8-1 | 81 | 24 |
| 24 | Rochester | 7-1 | 70 | 22 |
| 25 | Muhlenberg | 8-0 | 69 | 25 |
Dropped out: No. 19 UW-Oshkosh.
Others receiving votes: Middlebury 62; Springfield 36; Ithaca 25; Pacific Lutheran 22; UW-Oshkosh 22; Lake Forest 21; DePauw 17; Ramapo 12; DeSales 7; Wittenberg 7; Richard Stockton 6; Albion 5; Salisbury 5; Bridgewater (Va.) 4; Franklin 3; Kenyon 2; Mississippi College 2; Austin 1; Bethany 1; Chapman 1.