Salem, Va. – Fresh off its first NCAA Division III Baseball World Series appearance, the Roanoke College Baseball Team has been ranked third in the nation in the final D3baseball.com Top-25 Poll.
The Maroons became the first team in program history to advance to the College World Series after claiming its first Old Dominion Athletic Conference and the NCAA South Regional titles.
Roanoke's 35 wins is tied for third most in ODAC history. The Maroons tie Randolph-Macon and Shenandoah's 35 wins from last season. Bridgewater's 36 in 2014 is second, while SU's 41 wins this season is an ODAC best.
The 10 man senior class closes its career with a total of 91 wins, setting the program's season-win record in 2016 and then again in 2017.
2017 D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25, Final
Through end of the 2017 season:
| # |
School (1st votes) | Rec | Pts | Prev. |
| 1 | Cal Lutheran (25) | 40-11 | 625 | 15 |
| 2 | Washington and Jefferson | 42-13 | 599 | 16 |
| 3 | Roanoke | 35-19 | 504 | -- |
| 4 | Mass-Boston | 38-12 | 502 | 19 |
| 5 | North Central (Ill.) | 31-18 | 490 | -- |
| 6 | Oswego State | 32-11 | 471 | 7 |
| 7 | Concordia-Chicago | 34-13 | 456 | -- |
| 8 | Cortland | 38-9 | 444 | 4 |
| 9 | LaGrange | 40-6 | 379 | 1 |
| 10 | Birmingham-Southern | 39-10 | 374 | 6 |
| 11 | Shenandoah | 41-10 | 370 | 10 |
| 12 | Wheaton (Mass.) | 27-17 | 364 | -- |
| 13 | Johns Hopkins | 38-8 | 358 | 2 |
| 14 | Salisbury | 35-11 | 346 | 9 |
| 15 | UW-Whitewater | 36-9 | 251 | 3 |
| 16 | Texas-Tyler | 39-9 | 218 | 5 |
| 17 | Wooster | 36-10 | 210 | 8 |
| 18 | Southern Maine | 34-13 | 171 | 21 |
| 19 | UW-La Crosse | 31-19 | 136 | -- |
| 20 | Centenary (La.) | 35-10 | 121 | 11 |
| 21 | Concordia (Texas) | 31-18 |
102 | -- |
| 22 | Babson | 29-15 | 94 | -- |
| 23 | La Roche | 34-10 | 79 | 12 |
| 24 | Washington U. | 27-10 | 69 | 14 |
| 25 | St. Scholastica | 34-10 | 64 | 23 |
