After winning the 2022 NCAA Division III National Championship by eight strokes in, Methodist is No. 1 in the first Bushnell/Golfweek Division III Coaches Poll for the 2022-23 season.
The Monarchs received 13 first-place votes in the process.
Emory got one first-place vote and checks in at No. 2. Huntingdon, Carnegie Mellon and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, which also got one first-place vote, round out the top five.
Wittenberg, Illinois Wesleyan, Sewanee, Christopher Newport, and Hampden-Sydney complete the top 10.
| Rank | Team (First-place votes) | Points |
| 1 | Methodist (13) | 369 |
| 2 | Emory (1) | 341 |
| 3 | Huntingdon | 340 |
| 4 | Carnegie Mellon | 289 |
| 5 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (1) | 278 |
| 6 | Wittenberg | 273 |
| 7 | Illinois Wesleyan | 262 |
| 8 | Sewanee | 237 |
| 9 | Christopher Newport | 223 |
| 10 | Hampden-Sydney | 220 |
| 11 | Piedmont | 218 |
| 12 | Washington & Lee | 215 |
| 13 | Babson | 197 |
| 14 | Oglethorpe | 174 |
| 15 | Greensboro | 157 |
| 16 | New York University | 152 |
| 17 | Denison | 92 |
| 18 | Berry | 90 |
| 19 | Kenyon College | 89 |
| 20 | Aurora University | 80 |
| 21 | Willamette | 69 |
| 22 | Rochester | 66 |
| 23 | Mary Hardin-Baylor | 64 |
| 24 | Guilford | 49 |
| 25 | Texas-Dallas | 48 |
Others receiving votes: Concordia (TX) (37); York (PA) (31); Gustavus Adolphus (27); Saint John’s (MN) (26); Trinity (TX) (22); Lynchburg (18); RPI (17); Averett (16); McMurry (16); Hope (11); Dallas (10); Skidmore (9); Pomona-Pitzer (7); Franklin & Marshall (7); Redlands (6); LeTourneau (5); Southwestern (TX) (5); Transylvania (3); Gettysburg (3); Wisconsin-Eau Claire (3); Texas Lutheran (2); Rhodes (1).
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