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| Rank | School (First-Place Votes) | Total Points | Record | Previous Rank |
| 1 | BYU (15) | 239 | 15-3 | 1 |
| 2 | UC Irvine (1) | 225 | 16-4 | 2 |
| 3 | Long Beach State | 208 | 14-5 | 3 |
| 4 | Pepperdine | 189 | 10-6 | 5 |
| 5 | UCLA | 167 | 13-9 | 6 |
| 6 | Stanford | 147 | 12-8 | 4 |
| 7 | Lewis | 141 | 14-5 | 8 |
| 8 | Cal State Northridge | 140 | 10-6 | 7 |
| 9 | Ohio State | 105 | 14-3 | 9 |
| 10 | Hawai'i | 95 | 7-12 | 11 |
| 11 | UC Santa Barbara | 66 | 9-12 | 14 |
| 12 | Cal Baptist | 63 | 8-11 | 12 |
| 13 | Penn State | 53 | 14-5 | 10 |
| 14 | USC | 31 | 4-11 | 13 |
| 15 | George Mason | 14 | 9-8 | NR |
Others Receiving Votes and appearing on two or more ballots: Princeton 10; Pacific 9; Harvard 5; Loyola-Chicago 5; Ball State 3
Two teams mentioned on only one ballot for a total of five combined points.
Dropped Out: Pacific 15
Next Poll: March 18, 2013
Poll conducted and distributed by the AVCA
