To no one's surprise the USC Trojans are ranked the No. 1 team in the country in the initial 2012 preseason poll, and they received every single first place vote. With USC sitting atop the preseason polls they will be looking to win their fifth straight NCAA title.
The entire MPSF conference takes the first nine spots in the poll, not sure when or if the entire league has taken the top spots in this poll. The first non-MPSF team is Loy from the Loyola Marymount WWPA and then the first CWPA team is the Princeton Tigers who are No. 12.
| Rank | Team | 2011 Final Poll | Points |
| 1 | University of Southern California |
1 | 100 |
| 2 | University of California-Los Angeles |
2 | 94 |
| 3 | University of California |
3 | 91 |
| 4 | Stanford University |
4 | 85 |
| 5 | University of California-Santa Barbara |
7 | 78 |
| 6 | University of California-Irvine |
5 | 74 |
| 7 | University of the Pacific |
6 | 68 |
| 8 | Pepperdine University | 8 | 66 |
| 9 | Long Beach State University |
9 | 61 |
| 10 | Loyola Marymount University |
13 | 52 |
| 11 | University of California-San Diego |
11 | 51 |
| 12 | Princeton University | 10 | 46 |
| 13 | University of California-Davis | 12 | 43 |
| 14 | United States Naval Academy |
15 | 29 |
| 15 | Santa Clara University |
16 | 27 |
| 16 | United States Air Force Academy |
20 | 22 |
| 17 | Concord University (Calif.) |
14 | 21 |
| 18 | St. Francis College (N.Y.) |
17 | 19 |
| 19 | California Baptist University |
18 | 17 |
| 20 | Brown University |
19 | 9 |
| RV | Pomona-Pitzer Colleges |
RV | 2 |
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