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| Rank | School (First-Place Votes) | Total Points | Record | Previous Rank |
| 1 | UC Irvine (14) | 253 | 14-3 | 1 |
| 2 | BYU (2) | 235 | 11-3 | 2 |
| 3 | Long Beach State | 225 | 12-4 | 3 |
| 4 | Stanford | 187 | 9-6 | 5 |
| 5 | Pepperdine | 182 | 8-5 | 4 |
| 6 | UCLA | 170 | 11-8 | 7 |
| 7 | Ohio State | 159 | 11-2 | 6 |
| 8 | Cal State Northridge | 133 | 7-6 | 8 |
| 9 | Penn State | 101 | 12-3 | 9 |
| 10 | Lewis | 83 | 11-5 | 12 |
| 11 | Hawai'i | 82 | 5-10 | 11 |
| 12 | Cal Baptist | 68 | 6-7 | 13 |
| 13 | USC | 55 | 3-8 | 9 |
| 14 | Harvard | 40 | 9-2 | 15 |
| 15 | Pacific | 39 | 5-7 | 14 |
Others Receiving Votes and appearing on two or more ballots: UC Santa Barbara 15; UC San Diego 6; Loyola-Chicago 5; Princeton 2
Next Poll: March 4, 2013
Poll conducted and distributed by the AVCA
