NCBWA May 16 Division I Poll

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DALLAS – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 14th year with its 2011 weekly surveys. Polls will be circulated from Feb. 21-June 28 following the 65th annual NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb., at the new TD Ameritade Stadium.

To date, TCU, UCLA, Florida, Vanderbilt, and Virginia have held the No. 1 NCBWA rankings in ’11.

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 300 baseball-playing schools in the 2010 NCAA Division I ranks, and there have been 16 circuits in the early surveys this season. Last year there also were 16 different leagues (from 30 in NCAA Division I) among the Top 30 polls. For more information, please go to www.NCBWA.com.

Rank School Conference Overall Record Previous Rank
1 Virginia Atlantic Coast 45-6 2
2 South Carolina Southeastern 41-11 3
3 Vanderbilt SEC 42-8 1
4 Texas Big 12 38-12 4
5 Florida SEC 39-13 6
6 Florida State ACC 39-13 7
7 Oklahoma Big 12 39-13 8
8 Arizona State Pacific-10 36-13 5
9 TCU Mountain West 36-15 9
10 Oregon State Pac-10 37-12 10
11 Cal State Fullerton Big West 36-14 12
12 Clemson ACC 36-16 13
13 Texas A&M Big 12 36-16 14
14 North Carolina ACC 40-12 11
15 Georgia Tech ACC 37-15 15
16 UC Irvine Big West 34-13 18
17 Rice Conference USA 35-17 19
18 Arkansas SEC 33-17 16
19 Fresno State Western Athletic 36-11 21
20 Southern Miss C-USA 37-13 17
21 UCLA Pac-10 29-19 20
22 Stanford Pac-10 28-18 22
23 Miami (Fla.) ACC 32-18 24
24 Connecticut Big East 36-14-1 29
25 Charlotte Atlantic 10 38-12 27
26 Arizona Pac-10 31-17 26
27 Stetson Atlantic Sun 39-13 23
28 Oklahoma State Big 12 33-18 25
29 California Pac-10 28-16 30
30 East Carolina C-USA 34-17 NR

Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Auburn (28-24), Coastal Carolina (34-17), Creighton (35-13), Dallas Baptist (37-15), Elon (34-18), FIU (35-16-1), Gonzaga (28-14-1), James Madison (34-17), Kent State (36-13), LSU (33-19), Mississippi State (32-19), Monmouth (34-17), St. John’s (30-17), Stony Brook (37-10), Texas State (34-17), Troy (37-15), UCF (33-19).

Dropped Out: Coastal Carolina (28).

By conference: ACC 6, Pac-10 6, Big 12 4, SEC 4, C-USA 3, Big West 2, A-10 1, A-Sun 1, Big East 1, MWC 1, WAC 1.