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| Rank | School (First-Place Votes) | Total Points | Record | Previous Rank |
| 1 | BYU (14) | 268 | 13-3 | 2 |
| 2 | UC Irvine (1) | 248 | 15-4 | 1 |
| 3 | Long Beach State (1) | 240 | 13-4 | 3 |
| 4 | Stanford | 215 | 12-6 | 4 |
| 5 | Pepperdine | 195 | 9-6 | 5 |
| 6 | UCLA | 160 | 11-9 | 6 |
| 7 | Cal State Northridge | 150 | 9-6 | 8 |
| 8 | Lewis | 144 | 12-5 | 10 |
| 9 | Ohio State | 123 | 12-3 | 7 |
| 10 | Penn State | 112 | 14-3 | 9 |
| 11 | Hawai'i | 81 | 5-12 | 11 |
| 12 | Cal Baptist | 75 | 7-9 | 12 |
| 13 | USC | 50 | 4-9 | 13 |
| 14 | UC Santa Barbara | 35 | 7-12 | NR |
| 15 | Pacific | 23 | 5-9 | 15 |
Others Receiving Votes and appearing on two or more ballots: George Mason 14; Princeton 13; Harvard 6; Loyola-Chicago 5; UC San Diego 3
Dropped Out: Harvard 14
Next Poll: March 11, 2013
Poll conducted and distributed by the AVCA
