Rank	School	Record	Pts	LW
1	Southern Methodist (12)	11-0-0	300	1
2	Virginia	10-0-1	282	2
3	Saint Louis	9-0-0	272	5
4	St. John's	7-0-2	248	3
5	Stanford	9-1-0	244	4
6	Indiana	9-2-0	241	6
7	Washington	9-1-0	230	7
8	Rutgers	8-1-2	218	8
9	North Carolina	10-2-0	213	10
10	Alabama-Birmingham	10-1-0	193	9
11	South Carolina	7-2-0	159	13
12	Connecticut	8-2-2	157	15
13	San Diego	7-2-0	150	11
14	Clemson	8-3-0	144	12
15	Loyola (Baltimore)	10-1-1	121	16
16	Penn State	7-3-1	86	14
17	Furman	9-2-0	85	17
18	Fairfield	7-1-1	78	20
19	Wisconsin-Milwaukee	11-2-0	74	23
20	Ohio State	7-2-2	66	22
21	Boston College	7-3-0	58	21
22	UCLA	6-4-2	48	nr
23	Seton Hall	8-2-1	42	18
24	Princeton	5-2-2	40	nr
25	South Florida	10-2-0	39	18

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

Others receiving votes: Loyola Marymount 33, Harvard 18, Wake Forest 18, Illinois-Chicago 12, William & Mary 9, Air Force 6, Columbia 5, Michigan State 4, Duke 3, Hartford 3, Yale 3, Bradley 2, California 2, Creighton 1, Old Dominion 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; 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 8, 2001
October 1, 2001
September 24, 2001
No poll: September 17, 2001
September 10, 2001
September 4, 2001
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