ST. PAUL-- Bethany Lutheran was ranked No. 16 in the final D3baseball.com/National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Top 25 poll for the 2026 season, the national organization announced today.
 

2026 D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25, Final

Through the end of the 2026 season.

#	School (1st votes)	Rec	Pts	Prev.
1	Denison (25)	51-3	625	1
2	Endicott	44-14	579	9
3	East Texas Baptist	40-13	545	15
4	Rowan	38-7	515	5
5	Adrian	40-14	504	16
6	Baldwin Wallace	37-12	484	10
7	Johns Hopkins	38-12	457	6
8	Salisbury	37-11	450	5
9	Lynchburg	40-8-1	443	3
10	Salve Regina	40-8	421	5
11	UW-Whitewater	43-6	361	2
12	Claremont-Mudd-Scripps	35-15	337	17
13	Shenandoah	37-12	264	7
14	Chicago	30-15	259	25
15	Piedmont	33-15	253	rv
16	Bethany Lutheran	35-8	219	-
17	Messiah	36-15	193	rv
18	Randolph-Macon	29-17	182	rv
19	Bridgewater (Va.)	35-15	171	11
20	Pomona-Pitzer	33-14	114	21
21	Montclair State	31-11	102	12
22	Washington U.	30-13	98	18
23	Whitworth	30-16	89	-
24	Kean	31-13-1	71	20
25	Tufts	31-11	67	14

Dropped out: No. 13 Wittenberg, No. 19 Mount Union, No. 22 Sage, No. 23 Belhaven, No. 24 Cortland.

Others receiving votes: Wittenberg 55, Mount Union 44, Penn St.-Harrisburg 26, Kalamazoo 25, Southern Maine 24, DePauw 23, Belhaven 22, Cortland 18, Ramapo 16, UW-La Crosse 15, Sage 11, Hobart 7, Christopher Newport 6, Rhodes 4, Washington & Jefferson 3, Concordia (Texas) 2, Maryville (Tenn.) 2, Millikin 2, Wartburg 1,  New Jersey City 1.
 

The D3baseball.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of 25 Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country, and is published weekly. Full members of NCAA Division III are eligible.