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 following the 67th annual NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb., at TD Ameritade Park.
Arkansas (preseason), North Carolina (next 10 surveys), Vanderbilt (April 29-May 20), and LSU (May 27-June 4) have been No. 1 during 2013. All eight NCAA Super Regional hosts are ranked among last and this week’s Top 30. The next-to-last NCBWA poll will be released after the June 8-11 NCAA Super Regional contests prior to the CWS.
The poll voters come from 44 college baseball writers and related media persons from throughout the nation. This week’s poll has representation by 12 different conferences among the 298 baseball-playing schools in the 2012 NCAA Division I ranks, and there have been 18 circuits or independents in the surveys this season. For more NCAA postseason information and news, please go to www.NCBWA.com.
Rank School Conference Overall Record Previous Rank
1 LSU Southeastern 55-9 1
2 Cal State Fullerton Big West 51-8 3
3 Vanderbilt SEC 54-10 2
4 North Carolina Atlantic Coast 55-9 4
5 Oregon State Pac-12 48-10 5
6 Virginia ACC 50-10 6
7 NC State ACC 47-14 8
8 Florida State ACC 47-15 10
9 Mississippi State SEC 46-18 9
10 UCLA Pac-12 42-17 11
11 Louisville Big East 49-12 13
12 Indiana Big Ten 46-14 12
13 Kansas State Big 12 44-17 14
14 Rice Conference USA 44-18 15
15 South Carolina SEC 42-18 16
16 Oklahoma Big 12 43-19 19
17 Oregon Pac-12 48-16 7
18 Arkansas SEC 39-22 17
19 Oklahoma State Big 12 41-19 18
20 Arizona State Pac-12 37-22-1 20
21 Virginia Tech ACC 40-22 26
22 Austin Peay Ohio Valley 47-15 25
23 Cal Poly Big West 40-19 21
24 Florida Atlantic Sun Belt 42-22 NR
25 Ole Miss SEC 38-24 22
26 Campbell Big South 49-10 23
27 Central Arkansas Southland 42-22 NR
28 Clemson ACC 40-22 24
29 Georgia Tech ACC 37-27 NR
30 South Alabama Sun Belt 43-20 29
Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Alabama (35-28), Arizona (34-21), Bryant (45-18-1), Coastal Carolina (37-23), Connecticut (35-28), Elon (34-30), Illinois State (39-19), Kentucky (30-25), Liberty (36-29), Louisiana-Lafayette (43-20), Mercer (43-18), New Mexico (37-22), Notre Dame (34-24), Sam Houston State (38-22), San Diego (37-25), Seton Hall (37-19), Saint Louis (41-21), Texas A&M (34-29), Troy (42-20), UC Irvine (33-22), William & Mary (39-24).
Dropped Out: Mercer (27), New Mexico (28), Bryant (30).
By conference: ACC 7, SEC 6, Pac-12 4, Big 12 3, Big West 2, Sun Belt 2, Big East 1, Big South 1, Big Ten 1, C-USA 1, OVC 1, SLC 1.
