Top 25, 2022 preseason
Entering the 2022 season:
Previous years' Top 25 polls
Rank School (No. 1 votes) W-L Points
1 Mary Hardin-Baylor (23) 15-0 619
2 North Central (Ill.)
13-1 587
3 Mount Union (2) 13-1 577
4 (-1) UW-Whitewater 13-1 537
5 (+3) St. John's 11-1 480
6 (+4) Hardin-Simmons 9-1 451
7 (-2) Linfield 11-1 445
8 (+1) Wheaton (Ill.) 10-2 419
9 (+3) Trinity (Texas) 9-1 378
10 (+4) Johns Hopkins 10-2 358
11 (-4) Muhlenberg 11-2 326
12 (-1) UW-La Crosse 9-3 314
13 (+4) Bethel 8-3 310
14 (-8) Central 12-1 287
15 Delaware Valley 11-1 262
16 Cortland 11-1 211
17 (+4) Ithaca 8-2 183
18 (+2) UW-River Falls 9-2 180
19 (NR) UW-Oshkosh 6-3 156
20 (-7) RPI 11-2 130
21 (+2) Randolph-Macon 9-1 121
22 (-3) Salisbury 8-2 120
23 (NR) Hobart 9-2 94
24 (NR) Heidelberg 7-2 81
25 (-7) Birmingham-Southern 10-2 67
Dropped out: Lake Forest
Others receiving votes: Susquehanna 59; Carnegie Mellon 55; Baldwin Wallace 52; Redlands 49; John Carroll 39; Union 36; Lake Forest 31; Aurora 27; Westminster (Pa.) 24; Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 10; Wartburg 7; Gustavus Adolphus 6; Albion 6; DePauw 6; UW-Stout 4; Washington U. 4; Washington & Jefferson 4; Centre 3; Rose-Hulman 3; Huntingdon 2; Williams 2; Coe 1; Grove City 1; Washington and Lee 1.