| Rank | Team | Record | Next Week | Prior | |
| 1 |  | UCLA | 18-1, 5-1 | Arizona State, Arizona | 1 |
| 2 |  | Villanova | 17-1, 5-1 | Seton Hall, Providence | 2 |
| 3 |  | Kansas | 16-1, 5-0 | at Iowa State, Texas | 4 |
| 4 |  | Gonzaga | 17-0, 5-0 | at Santa Clara, Portland | 5 |
| 5 |  | Kentucky | 15-2, 5-0 | at Mississippi State, South Carolina | 6 |
| 6 |  | Creighton | 17-1, 4-1 | at Xavier, Marquette | 9 |
| 7 |  | West Virginia | 15-2, 4-1 | Oklahoma, at Kansas State | 14 |
| 8 |  | Baylor | 16-1, 4-1 | Texas, at TCU | 3 |
| 9 |  | North Carolina | 16-3, 4-1 | Syracuse, at Boston College | 10 |
| 10 |  | Florida State | 16-2, 4-1 | Notre Dame, Louisville | 11 |
| 11 |  | Butler | 15-3, 4-2 | Marquette, at DePaul | 7 |
| 12 |  | Oregon | 16-2, 5-0 | California, Stanford | 12 |
| 13 |  | Notre Dame | 16-2, 5-0 | at Florida State, Syracuse | 13 |
| 14 |  | Virginia | 13-3, 3-2 | at Boston College, Georgia Tech | 15 |
| 15 |  | Louisville | 15-3, 3-2 | Clemson, at Florida State | 16 |
| 16 |  | Arizona | 16-2, 5-0 | at USC, at UCLA | 17 |
| 17 |  | Purdue | 14-4, 3-2 | Illinois, Penn State | 18 |
| 18 |  | Wisconsin | 14-3, 3-1 | Michigan, at Minnesota | 19 |
| 19 |  | Duke | 14-4, 2-3 | Miami | 8 |
| 20 |  | Florida | 14-3, 5-0 | at South Carolina, Vanderbilt | 21 |
| 21 |  | Cincinnati | 15-2, 5-0 | Temple, at Tulane | 24 |
| 22 |  | Maryland | 16-2, 4-1 | at Iowa | NR |
| 23 |  | Saint Mary's | 15-2, 5-1 | Pacific, Pepperdine | 23 |
| 24 |  | Xavier | 13-4, 3-2 | Creighton, Georgetown | 20 |
| 25 |  | South Carolina | 14-3, 4-0 | Florida, at Kentucky | NR |
