| Rank | Team | Record | Next Week | Prior | |
| 1 |  | Villanova | 16-1, 4-1 | at Georgetown, at Providence | 1 |
| 2 |  | West Virginia | 15-2, 4-1 | Kansas, Texas | 2 |
| 3 |  | Virginia | 16-1, 5-0 | at Georgia Tech, at Wake Forest | 3 |
| 4 |  | Oklahoma | 14-2, 4-1 | at Kansas State, at Oklahoma State | 5 |
| 5 |  | Texas Tech | 15-2, 4-1 | at Texas, at Iowa State | 6 |
| 6 |  | Purdue | 17-2, 6-0 | Wisconsin, at Iowa | 11 |
| 7 |  | Duke | 15-2, 3-2 | at Miami, Pittsburgh | 8 |
| 8 |  | Wichita State | 15-2, 5-0 | SMU, at Houston | 10 |
| 9 |  | Michigan State | 16-3, 4-2 | Indiana | 4 |
| 10 |  | Xavier | 16-3, 4-2 | St. John's, at Seton Hall | 9 |
| 11 |  | Kansas | 14-3, 4-1 | at West Virginia, Baylor | 13 |
| 12 |  | Arizona | 14-4, 4-1 | at California, at Stanford | 15 |
| 13 |  | Seton Hall | 15-3, 4-1 | at Creighton, Xavier | 12 |
| 14 |  | Arizona State | 14-3, 2-3 | at Stanford, at California | 7 |
| 15 |  | Gonzaga | 16-3, 6-0 | Saint Mary's, at Santa Clara | 16 |
| 16 |  | TCU | 13-4, 1-4 | Iowa State, at Kansas State | 14 |
| 17 |  | North Carolina | 14-4, 3-2 | Clemson, Georgia Tech | 19 |
| 18 |  | Cincinnati | 15-2, 4-0 | at UCF, East Carolina | 20 |
| 19 |  | Auburn | 16-1, 4-0 | at Alabama, Georgia | 23 |
| 20 |  | Tennessee | 12-4, 3-2 | at Missouri, at South Carolina | 24 |
| 21 |  | Creighton | 14-3, 4-1 | at South Carolina, Florida | 25 |
| 22 |  | Ohio State | 15-4, 6-0 | at Northwestern, vs Minnesota | NR |
| 23 |  | Michigan | 15-4, 4-2 | Maryland, at Nebraska, Rutgers | NR |
| 24 |  | Clemson | 15-2, 4-1 | at North Carolina, Notre Dame | 22 |
| 25 |  | Kentucky | 14-4, 4-2 | Seton Hall, at Providence | 21 |
