| Rank/Team | Record | Previous Ranking |
| 1. UC San Diego | 20-2-0 | 2 |
| 2. William Smith | 18-4-0 | 5 |
| 3. Washington (Mo.) | 17-4-1 | 11 |
| 4. Elizabethtown | 19-5-2 | NR |
| 5. Mary Washington | 19-2-2 | 3 |
| 6. Macalester | 19-2-0 | 4 |
| 7. Amherst | 14-3-0 | 20 |
| 8. Middlebury | 13-4-0 | 24t |
| 9. Calvin | 19-2-1 | 6 |
| 10. Plymouth State | 15-3-0 | 7 |
| 11. William Paterson | 16-3-1 | 8 |
| 12. Rochester | 15-2-2 | 10 |
| 13. St. Thomas (Minn.) | 17-3-0 | 12 |
| 14. Trinity (Texas) | 14-3-1 | 13 |
| 15. Richard Stockton | 12-5-1 | 23 |
| 16. Gustavus Adolphus | 14-5-1 | NR |
| 17. Coll. of New Jersey | 18-1-0 | 1 |
| 18. No. Carolina Wesleyan | 15-4-2 | 9 |
| 19. Nazareth | 16-1-2 | 14 |
| 20. Bowdoin | 10-4-1 | 15 |
| 21. Cal Lutheran | 15-5-0 | 16 |
| 22. Western Conn. | 17-3-0 | 17 |
| 23. Gettysburg | 14-6-0 | 18 |
| 24. St. Benedict | 13-3-3 | 19 |
| 25. Kalamazoo | 17-2-1 | 21 |