2013 NCBWA Top 30 Poll (May 6th)

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FROM CBD NEWS SOURCE
DALLAS – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 16th year with its 2013 weekly surveys. Polls will be circulated from Feb. 18-June 27 (weekly through June 11) following the 67th annual NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb., at TD Ameritade Park.

Arkansas (preseason), North Carolina (next 10 surveys) and Vanderbilt (April 29, May 6) have held the No. 1 positions during the 2013 NCBWA Top 30/35s. The NCBWA poll voters come from 44 college baseball writers and related media persons from throughout the nation.

The current poll has representation by 10 different conferences (17 total for the season) among the 298 baseball-playing schools in the 2013 NCAA Division I ranks. The surveys of 2012 had a NCBWA-poll record 22 different DI conferences and independents rated at least one week. For more information or to join the NCBWA, please go to www.ncbwa.com.

Rank-School-2013 Record-Previous Rank
1 Vanderbilt Southeastern 41-6 1
2 North Carolina Atlantic Coast 42-4 2
3 Cal State Fullerton Big West 39-7 3
4 LSU SEC 43-6 4
5 Oregon State Pac-12 37-8 5
6 Oregon Pac-12 37-11 6
7 Virginia ACC 39-8 7
8 Florida State ACC 38-9 8
9 NC State ACC 37-11 10
10 Louisville Big East 37-10 11
11 UCLA Pac-12 31-13 12
12 South Carolina SEC 33-14 9
13 Mississippi State SEC 36-13 15
14 Arkansas SEC 32-16 16
15 Arizona State Pac-12 30-14-1 14
16 Indiana Big Ten 35-9 17
17 Rice Conference USA 31-15 18
18 Oklahoma Big 12 34-14 13
19 Oklahoma State Big 12 34-12 20
20 Ole Miss SEC 33-16 21
21 Stanford Pac-12 26-16 27
22 Cal Poly Big West 31-14 28
23 UC Irvine Big West 29-15 19
24 Mercer Atlantic Sun 36-12 24
25 Clemson ACC 30-15 25
26 South Alabama Sun Belt 36-13 30
27 Arizona Pac-12 29-17 22
28 Kansas State Big 12 34-15 NR
29 Pittsburgh Big East 36-11 NR
30 Georgia Tech ACC 29-18 23

Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Austin Peay (35-13), Bryant (33-14-1), CSU Bakersfield (31-18), Campbell (39-9), Central Arkansas (32-13), Coastal Carolina (29-18), Columbia (26-19), Florida (25-23), Florida Gulf Coast (30-16), Gonzaga (31-14-1), llinois State (31-17), Kansas (30-18), Kentucky (27-19), Louisiana-Lafayette (34-15), Miami (Fla.) (32-18), Michigan State (26-14), New Mexico (30-17), North Florida (34-14), Notre Dame (28-19), Ohio State (31-14), Sam Houston State (31-17), Seton Hall (30-16), Tennessee Tech (33-14), Troy (35-12), UNC Wilmington (34-14), USF (31-16), Virginia Tech (30-19), West Virginia (29-20).

Dropped Out: Kentucky (26), Notre Dame (29).

By conference: ACC 6, Pac-12 6, SEC 6, Big 12 3, Big West 3, Big East 2, A-Sun 1, Big Ten 1, C-USA 1, Sun Belt 1.