With top-three finishes in four of their five fall tournaments thus far, including wins at the Piedmont Invitational and Golfweek D-III Invitational, Emory is the Bushnell/Golfweek Division III Coaches Poll’s top-ranked team for Oct. 28. The Eagles received all 18 first-place votes for their first No. 1 ranking of 2022-23.
Methodist, Wittenberg (moved up seven spots from No. 10 to No. 3), Piedmont, and Christopher Newport round out the top five. Carnegie Mellon, Redlands, who jumped 12 spots up from No. 19 to No. 7, Willamette (moved up 10 spots to No. 8), Washington & Lee, and Illinois Wesleyan complete the top 10.
California Lutheran (No. 19) and East Texas Baptist (No. 25) made their first appearances in the top 25 in 2022-23, while five others who received votes on September 30 are in.
Babson, Berry, Kenyon, Hamilton, Rhodes, Rochester, Gettysburg, Skidmore, Occidental, Dallas, Lynchburg, Averett, Denison, Trinity, Chapman, NYU and Whitman were others receiving votes in this poll.
| Rank | Team (First-place votes) | Points | Previous |
| 1 | Emory (18) | 450 | 2 |
| 2 | Methodist | 429 | 1 |
| 3 | Wittenberg | 378 | 10 |
| 4 | Piedmont | 357 | 6 |
| 5 | Christopher Newport | 343 | 5 |
| 6 | Carnegie Mellon | 334 | 4 |
| 7 | Redlands | 330 | 19 |
| 8 | Willamette | 318 | 18 |
| 9 | Washington & Lee | 300 | 13 |
| 10 | Illinois Wesleyan | 288 | 9 |
| 11 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 275 | 7 |
| 12 | Oglethorpe | 247 | 11 |
| 13 | Guilford | 202 | 8 |
| 14 | LeTourneau | 189 | NR |
| 15 | Pomona-Pitzer | 174 | NR |
| 16 | Texas-Dallas | 156 | NR |
| 17 | Greensboro | 142 | 14 |
| 18 | Huntingdon | 129 | 3 |
| 19 | California Lutheran | 119 | NR |
| 20 | Saint Johns | 107 | 21 |
| 21 | Trinity | 82 | NR |
| 22 | Sewanee | 81 | 12 |
| 23 | Aurora | 71 | NR |
| 24 | RPI | 59 | 24 |
| 25 | East Texas Baptist | 35 | NR |
Others receiving votes: Babson (31); Berry (28); Kenyon (25); Hamilton (24); Rhodes (24); Rochester (24); Gettysburg (23); Skidmore (18); Occidental (16); Dallas (13); Lynchburg (11); Averett (7); Denison (6); Trinity (CT) (5); Chapman (2); NYU (2); Whitman (1).
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