Rank	School	Record	Pts	LW
1	Southern Methodist (12)	9-0-0	300	1
2	Virginia	9-0-1	278	2
3	St. John's	7-0-1	273	3
4	Stanford	8-0-0	263	4
5	Saint Louis	8-0-0	262	5
6	Indiana	7-2-0	232	6
7	Washington	7-1-0	229	7
8	Rutgers	6-1-2	199	9t
9	Alabama-Birmingham	8-1-0	190	11
10	North Carolina	8-2-0	179	13
11	San Diego	7-1-0	172	12
12	Clemson	7-2-0	153	19
13	South Carolina	7-2-0	151	9t
14	Penn State	7-2-0	131	16
15	Connecticut	6-2-2	127	17
16	Loyola (Baltimore)	8-1-1	108	18
17	Furman	8-1-0	106	8
18	Seton Hall	7-1-1	104	20
19	South Florida	9-1-0	96	14
20	Fairfield	6-1-1	74	21
21	Boston College	6-2-0	51	nr
22	Ohio State	6-2-1	39	15
23	Wisconsin-Milwuakee	8-2-0	26	nr
24	Loyola Marymount	7-3-0	23	nr
25 (tie)	Harvard	6-2-0	13	nr
25 (tie)	Yale	5-1-2	13	nr

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

Others receiving votes: California 11, Old Dominion 11, Rhode Island 10, UCLA 10, Creighton 9, Syracuse 9, Princeton 6, San Francisco 6, Wake Forest 6, Duke 5, Maryland 5, Portland 5, Air Force 4, Denver 3, Bradley 2, Marshall 2.

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; Mitch Murray, Santa Clara; 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 2001 Top 25 Polls
October 1, 2001
September 24, 2001
No poll: September 17, 2001
September 10, 2001
September 4, 2001
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