FROM NCBWA RELEASE
DALLAS, Texas – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continued its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 11th year with its 2009 weekly surveys. This season’s polls have been circulated from Feb. 23-June 25 following the NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb. This is the final poll of the year and ’09 after LSU won its sixth NCAA baseball championship on June 24.
The poll voters come from 30 college baseball writers and related media persons from throughout the nation. The final poll has representation by 11 different conferences among the 302 baseball-playing schools in the 2009 NCAA Division I ranks, and five different schools have held down the No. 1 position. There have been 21 separate leagues among the Top 30 in ‘09 poll, and five different schools – (chronologically) North Carolina, LSU, Georgia, Arizona State, and UC Irvine – held down the No. 1 position in the NCBWA polls. For more information or to join the NCBWA, please go to www.ncbwa.com.
The first 2010 NCBWA DI poll will be released in Jan. 2010.
Rank School Conference Overall Record Previous Rank
1 LSU Southeastern 56-17 1
2 Texas Big 12 50-16-1 5
3 Arizona State Pacific-10 51-14 2
4 North Carolina Atlantic Coast 48-18 4
5 Arkansas SEC 41-24 7
6 Virginia ACC 49-15-1 6
7 Cal State Fullerton Big West 47-16 3
8 Southern Miss Conference USA 40-26 8
9 Rice C-USA 43-18 9
10 Florida State ACC 45-18 10
11 TCU Mountain West 40-18 11
12 Mississippi SEC 44-20 12
13 UC Irvine Big West 45-15 13
14 Florida SEC 42-22 14
15 Clemson ACC 44-22 15
16 East Carolina C-USA 46-20 16
17 Louisville Big East 47-18 17
18 Oklahoma Big 12 43-20 18
19 Georgia Tech ACC 38-19-1 19
20 Miami (Fla.) ACC 38-22 20
21 Coastal Carolina Big South 47-16 21
22 Kansas State Big 12 43-18-1 22
23 South Carolina SEC 40-23 23
24 Oregon State Pac-10 37-19 24
25 Texas A&M Big 12 37-24 25
26 Georgia SEC 38-24 26
27 Elon Southern 41-18 27
28 Western Kentucky Sun Belt 42-20 28
29 Vanderbilt SEC 37-27 29
30 Alabama SEC 37-21 30
Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Army (36-21), Boston College (34-26), Cal Poly (37-21), Dallas Baptist (38-17), Georgia Southern (42-17), Georgia State (39-22), Gonzaga (36-18), Kansas (39-24), Kent State (43-17), Middle Tennessee (44-18), Minnesota (40-19), Ohio State (42-19), Oklahoma State (34-24), Oral Roberts (33-15), San Diego State (41-23), Tennessee Tech (31-24-1), Texas State (41-17), Washington State (32-25).
Dropped Out: None.
By conference: SEC 8, ACC 6, Big 12 4, C-USA 3, Big West 2, Pac-10 2, Big East 1, Big South 1, MWC 1, Southern 1, Sun Belt 1.
