| Rank | Team | Record | Next Week | Prior | |
| 1 |  | Oklahoma | 15-1, 4-1 | at Iowa State, at Baylor | 2 |
| 2 |  | North Carolina | 16-2, 5-0 | Wake Forest, at Virginia Tech | 5 |
| 3 |  | Kansas | 15-2, 4-1 | at Oklahoma State, Texas | 1 |
| 4 |  | Maryland | 16-2, 5-1 | Northwestern, at Michigan State | 3 |
| 5 |  | Southern Methodist | 17-0, 6-0 | Houston, at Temple | 7 |
| 6 |  | Xavier | 16-1, 4-1 | Georgetown, Seton Hall | 8 |
| 7 |  | Villanova | 16-2, 6-0 | at Seton Hall, Providence | 13 |
| 8 |  | Arizona | 15-3, 3-2 | at Stanford, at California | 12 |
| 9 |  | Texas A&M | 15-2, 5-0 | LSU, Missouri | 14 |
| 10 |  | West Virginia | 15-2, 4-1 | Texas, at Texas Tech | 17 |
| 11 |  | Michigan State | 16-3, 3-3 | Nebraska, Maryland | 4 |
| 12 |  | Duke | 14-4, 3-2 | Syracuse, at North Carolina State | 6 |
| 13 |  | Miami (FL) | 13-3, 2-2 | at Boston College, Wake Forest | 9 |
| 14 |  | Virginia | 13-4, 2-3 | Clemson, Syracuse | 10 |
| 15 |  | Kentucky | 13-4, 3-2 | at Arkansas, Vanderbilt | 11 |
| 16 |  | Iowa | 14-3, 5-0 | at Rutgers, Purdue | 23 |
| 17 |  | Providence | 15-3, 3-2 | Butler, at Villanova | 15 |
| 18 |  | Louisville | 14-3, 3-1 | Florida State, at Georgia Tech | 21 |
| 19 |  | South Carolina | 16-1, 3-1 | at Mississippi, at Tennessee | 18 |
| 20 |  | Purdue | 15-3, 3-2 | at Rutgers, Ohio State, at Iowa | 20 |
| 21 |  | USC | 15-3, 4-1 | at Oregon, at Oregon State | NR |
| 22 |  | Iowa State | 13-4, 2-3 | Oklahoma, at TCU | 16 |
| 23 |  | Pittsburgh | 15-2, 4-1 | North Carolina State, at Florida State | 19 |
| 24 |  | Baylor | 14-3, 4-1 | Kansas State, Oklahoma | 24 |
| 25 |  | Butler | 13-4, 2-3 | at Providence, at Creighton | NR |
