NCBWA Apr. 12 Division I Poll

FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

DALLAS – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 13th year with its 2010 weekly surveys. Weekly polls will be circulated from Feb. 22-June 29 following the 64th annual NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb., and final CWS competition at historic Rosenblatt Stadium.

The poll voters come from 40 college baseball writers and related media persons from throughout the nation. This week’s poll has representation by 11 different conferences among the 302 baseball-playing schools in the 2010 NCAA Division I ranks, and there have been 15 circuits in the surveys this season. Last year there were 17 different leagues (from 30 in NCAA Division I) among the Top 30 polls. For more information or to join the NCBWA, please go to www.ncbwa.com.

Rank School Conference Overall Record Previous Rank
1 Virginia Atlantic Coast 27-7 5
2 Arizona State Pacific-10 28-3 1
3 Texas Big 12 26-7 6
4 UCLA Pac-10 25-3 4
5 Georgia Tech ACC 27-5 2
6 LSU Southeastern 26-6 3
7 Arkansas SEC 26-6 9
8 Florida State ACC 25-7 8
9 Florida SEC 23-8 10
10 TCU Mountain West 23-7 11
11 Coastal Carolina Big South 27-5 13
12 Louisville Big East 25-6 7
13 South Carolina SEC 25-7 16
14 Miami (Fla.) ACC 23-9 12
15 Oklahoma Big 12 25-7 17
16 Oregon State Pac-10 20-8 15
17 Clemson ACC 23-10 14
18 Vanderbilt SEC 26-8 19
19 Mississippi SEC 23-10 18
20 Western Kentucky Sun Belt 26-8 24
21 North Carolina ACC 22-12 20
22 Arizona Pac-10 22-9 23
23 Southeastern Louisiana Southland 26-7 22
24 Kansas State Big 12 23-6 30
25 Cal State Fullerton Big West 18-12 NR
26 East Carolina Conference USA 20-12 27
27 California Pac-10 20-10 NR
28 UC Irvine Big West 18-11 21
29 Virginia Tech ACC 23-11 NR
30 Kentucky SEC 21-12 NR

Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Alabama (21-11), Arkansas State (21-11), Auburn (22-11), Baylor (19-11), College of Charleston (24-10), Connecticut (22-7), Elon (21-12), Florida Gulf Coast (21-10), Fresno State (20-13), Kansas (19-13-1), Liberty (22-9), Michigan State (22-6), NC State (21-12), New Mexico (21-11), Ohio State (19-9), Oregon (21-11), Pittsburgh (22-8), Rice (19-14), San Diego (17-14), Stanford (14-13), Texas A&M (20-10-1), Texas State (20-10), The Citadel (23-11), UCF (22-12), VMI (28-5), Washington State (17-11), Wichita State (21-10).

Dropped Out: Alabama (25), College of Charleston (26), Stanford (28), Rice (29).

By conference: ACC 7, SEC 7, Pac-10 5, Big 12 3, Big West 2, Big East 1, Big South 1, C-USA 1, Mountain West 1, Southland 1, Sun Belt 1.