The University of Mary Washington men's basketball team climbed to 12th in the nation in this week's D3Hoops.com national poll. The ranking is the highest ever for the program in the D3Hoops.com poll, and ties the ranking of 12th by the NABC during the 2002-03 season.
D3hoops.com men's Top 25, Week 8
Through games of Sunday, Jan. 26:
| # | School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | UW-Stevens Point (24) | 18-0 | 624 | 1 |
| 2 | Cabrini (1) | 16-0 | 599 | 3 |
| 3 | Amherst | 15-2 | 551 | 6 |
| 4 | WPI | 16-1 | 537 | 5 |
| 5 | Wooster | 15-2 | 512 | 2 |
| 6 | Illinois Wesleyan | 15-3 | 502 | 4 |
| 7 | Washington U. | 14-2 | 447 | 8 |
| 8 | St. Norbert | 15-1 | 436 | 11 |
| 9 | Wesley | 15-1 | 414 | 12 |
| 10 | UW-Whitewater | 15-3 | 393 | 7 |
| 11 | Williams | 14-3 | 382 | 9 |
| 12 | Mary Washington | 15-2 | 291 | 15 |
| 13 | SUNY-Purchase | 14-0 | 285 | 14 |
| 14 | Augustana | 15-3 | 276 | 13 |
| 15 | St. Thomas | 13-3 | 258 | 10 |
| 16 | Albertus Magnus | 15-1 | 233 | 20 |
| 17 | Ohio Wesleyan | 14-3 | 227 | 19 |
| 18 | Wittenberg | 14-3 | 223 | 18 |
| 19 | Bowdoin | 15-1 | 169 | 22 |
| 20 | Brockport State | 14-1 | 140 | 23 |
| 21 | Virginia Wesleyan | 13-4 | 124 | 16 |
| 22 | Messiah | 14-2 | 88 | 17 |
| 23 | DePauw | 13-4 | 66 | -- |
| 24 | Texas-Dallas | 15-1 | 60 | -- |
| 25 | St. Mary's (Md.) | 12-4 | 50 | 24 |
Dropped out: No. 21 Oglethorpe; No. 25 Dubuque.
Others receiving votes: Oglethorpe 42; Whitworth 37; Calvin 20; Dubuque 15; Emory 14; Christopher Newport 13; Staten Island 12; Springfield 12; St. Vincent 11; Randolph-Macon 10; Babson 9; Geneseo State 6; Scranton 6; Carthage 6; Richard Stockton 5; Dickinson 5; Centre 5; Marietta 4; Colorado College 3; Plattsburgh State 1; Rose-Hulman 1; Eastern Connecticut 1.
The D3hoops.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of 25 coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country, and is published weekly.