Salem CC pulls in at No. 5 in the NJCAA Division III preseason basketball poll. The top five are the order in which they finished at last year’s national tournament. Five, potentially six, teams in the poll are on the Mighty Oaks’ schedule (first-place votes in parenthesis)
| TEAM | POINTS |
| Mohawk Valley (9) | 105 |
| Herkimer | 98 |
| Dallas College-Richland | 91 |
| Minnesota State C&T | 84 |
| SALEM CC | 77 |
| Sandhills | 70 |
| Riverland | 63 |
| Northern Essex | 56 |
| Union (NJ) | 49 |
| Dutchess | 42 |
| Genesee | 27 |
| Northampton | 17 |
| Dallas-Mountain View | 13 |
| Dallas-Eastfield | 8 |
| Montgomery (Pa.) | 5 |
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