Rank	School	Record	Pts	LW
1	Southern Methodist (12)	7-0-0	300	1
2	Virginia	7-0-1	277	3
3	St. John's	5-0-1	272	2
4	Stanford	6-0-0	263	5
5	Saint Louis	6-0-0	261	4
6	Indiana	5-2-0	231	8
7	Washington	6-1-0	230	6
8	Furman	7-0-0	190	11
9 (tie)	Rutgers	4-1-2	177	12
9 (tie)	South Carolina	6-1-0	177	9
11	Alabama-Birmingham	6-1-0	167	13
12	San Diego	6-1-0	157	16
13	North Carolina	6-2-0	152	15
14	South Florida	8-0-0	147	17
15	Ohio State	6-1-1	130	10
16	Penn State	5-2-0	122	7
17	Connecticut	5-2-2	102	19
18	Loyola (Baltimore)	6-1-1	96	18
19	Clemson	6-2-0	77	20
20	Seton Hall	5-1-1	68	24
21	Fairfield	4-1-1	56	nr
22	Princeton	3-0-2	50	21
23	UCLA	3-3-2	37	14
24	Duke	4-3-0	22	22
25	William & Mary	5-3-1	21	nr

Key: Pts - Total points. LW - Last week's ranking. t - tie.

Others receiving votes: Boston College 18, California State-Fullerton 17, Wisconsin-Milwaukee 14, Yale 13, Harvard 11, Maryland 10, Denver 8, Loyola Marymount 8, Marshall 8, Creighton 6, Air Force 5, Portland 4, Columbia 3, Cornell 3, Hartford 3, Michigan 2, Wake Forest 2, Wisconsin 1.

Voting panel: Mark Berson, South Carolina; Sasho Cirovski, Maryland; Dan Donigan, Saint Louis; George Gelnovatch, Virginia; Kevin Grimes, California; Schellas Hyndman, Southern Methodist; Tom Martin, James Madison; Bob Reasso, Rutgers; Ray Reid, Connecticut; John Rennie, Duke; Todd Saldana, UCLA; Keith Tabatznik, Georgetown; Bob Warming, Creighton; Dean Wurzberger, Washington; Jerry Yeagley, Indiana.

Voting method: On each ballot, 25 points awarded for first place, 24 for second place, 23 for third, etc., to 1 point for 25th place.

Previous Top 25 2001 Polls
September 24, 2001
No poll: September 17, 2001
September 10, 2001
September 4, 2001
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