Preseason USA Today/ESPN/WBCA Division III Coaches (As of 11/04/2009)
Rank	School	W-L	Points	Prev
1	Washington-St. Louis (3)	26-5	167	2
2	Hope (2)	28-2	163	5
3	Amherst	29-3	159	6
4	Scranton	26-5	146	8
5	George Fox (2)	32-0	144	1
6	Ill. Wesleyan	30-1	119	3
7	DePauw	22-5	106	24
8	Bowdoin	25-5	101	21
9	Brandeis	20-8	99	11
10	Muhlenberg	26-4	91	15
11	Kean	22-7	88	25
12	Southern Me.	22-7	82	NR
13	Wis.-Whitewater	23-5	78	18
14	Capital	22-6	66	NR
15	Howard Payne	23-6	64	NR
16	Chicago	17-8	59	NR
17	Trinity (Tex.)	20-8	51	NR
18	Wis.-Stevens Point	26-4	48	7
19	Marymount	20-7	47	NR
20	Moravian	21-7	46	NR
21	Texas-Dallas	21-5	40	NR
22	St. Benedict	26-4	30	17
23	New York U.	23-5	30	14
24	Hardin-Simmons	22-6	26	NR
25	Simpson	24-4	25	22

OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: The College of New Jersey - 23; Randolph-Macon College (Va.) - 21; DeSales University (Pa.) - 18; University of Puget Sound (Wash.) - 16; William Paterson University (N.J.) - 16; Thomas More College (Ky.) - 15; Keene State College (N.H.) - 14; University of Wisconsin, Stout - 13; Tufts University (Mass.) - 12; University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire - 9; Baldwin-Wallace College (Ohio) - 8; University of Mary Washington (Va.) - 8; University of Rochester (N.Y.) - 7; Calvin College (Mich.) - 6; Whitman College (Wash.) - 6; Christopher Newport University (Va.) - 3; University of Pittsburgh Greensburg (Pa.) - 2; Messiah College (Pa.) - 1; State University of New York at Cortland - 1; Washington & Jefferson College (Pa.) - 1.

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Ranking includes number of first-place votes and record in parentheses, total points and previous ranking