Voters in the D3Hoops.com Top 25 men’s basketball poll received their voter information earlier this week which means the preseason Top 25 poll for the 2025-2026 Division III men’s basketball season is right around the corner.
[Update: The official D3hoops.com Top 25 preseason poll has been released.]
It has become common for some voters to publicly release their ballots so we can start to get an idea of how the preseason poll is taking shape by aggregating the known ballots. As individual voters make their ballots known we include them in our tracker below. Points will be totaled in this tracker in the same way they are to determine the official poll. Poll points are awarded in descending order from 25 points for a first place vote all the way down to one point for a 25th place vote.
Totaling the known poll points gives us a look at how teams rank based solely on the public ballots so far. Fans should expect the final official poll to look a little different once the ballots from all 25 voters are taken into account, but this should at least give us a feel for which teams are looking good to get ranked and the general area they are likely to land. Based on historical trends, any team appearing below with at least 100 poll points can be considered a lock to make the preseason poll. The 2005-2006 preseason D3Hoops.com Top 25 poll was the only year to see a team (and it was actually two!) receive at least 100 poll points and still be relegated to the “others receiving votes” section.
Ballots have been revealed by the following voters and are included in the tracker below: Ryan Scott, Matt Snyder, Ryan Whitnable, Mike Rejniak, Bob Quillman, Tim Calderwood, Anonymous 1, Anonymous 2
With 8 of the 25 ballots known, this represents 32% of the total poll results.
This post will be updated as new ballots are revealed by individual voters up until the release of the official D3Hoops.com men’s top 25 poll.
Related D3 Datacast Episodes
Building a Preseason Top 25 Ballot ft. Akiva Poppers – Episode 51
A Voter’s Approach to the D3hoops Top 25 Poll ft. Bob Quillman – Episode 4
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