DALLAS – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 18th year with its 2015 weekly surveys. Polls will be circulated from Feb. 16-June 25 (weekly through June 3) following the 69th annual NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb., at TD Ameritade Park.
Vanderbilt (preseason No. 1) and Virginia (Feb. 16) have held down the No. 1 position in the initial two 2015 surveys and were the two NCAA finalists at the 2014 CWS. The poll voters come from 44 college baseball writers and related media persons from throughout the nation.
The current survey has representation by 10 different conferences among the 302 baseball-playing schools in the 2015 NCAA Division I ranks. The rankings of 2012 had a NCBWA-poll record 22 different DI conferences and independents rated at least one week while 19 separate circuits had team rankings in ‘14. For more information or to join the NCBWA, please go to www.ncbwa.com.
Rank-School-Record-Previous Rank
1 Virginia Atlantic Coast 3-0 2
2 TCU Big 12 3-0 3
3 Vanderbilt Southeastern 2-1 1
4 LSU SEC 3-0 4
5 Florida SEC 3-0 5
6 Houston American Athletic 3-0 7
7 UCLA Pac-12 3-0 9
8 Texas Tech Big 12 4-0 12
9 Texas Big 12 6
10 Louisville ACC 2-1 10
11 Miami (Fla.) ACC 4-0 13
12 South Carolina SEC 2-1 11
13 North Carolina ACC 3-0 14
14 Rice Conference USA 2-2 15
15 Florida State ACC 3-0 16
16 Oklahoma State Big 12 1-2 8
17 Arizona State Pac-12 2-1 21
18 Oregon Pac-12 2-1 17
19 Maryland Big Ten 3-0 20
20 Mississippi State SEC 4-0 22
21 Ole Miss SEC 2-1 19
22 Texas A&M SEC 3-0 25
23 Alabama SEC 3-0 28
24 Cal State Fullerton Big West 1-2 18
25 Kennesaw State Atlantic Sun 2-1 26
26 UCF American 3-0 34
27 Baylor Big 12 3-0 NR
28 Arkansas SEC 3-0 NR
29 Indiana Big Ten 2-1 NR
30 Liberty Big South 2-1 30
Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Arizona (3-0), Cal Poly (0-3), Central Michigan (3-1), Clemson (1-2), College of Charleston (1-2), Creighton (3-0), Dallas Baptist (3-0), Elon (3-0), Florida Atlantic (3-0), FIU (2-1), Fresno State (3-0), Georgia Tech (2-1), Illinois (4-0), Kentucky (2-0), Loyola Marymount (3-0), Morehead State (3-1), Notre Dame (3-1), Oregon State (2-1), Sam Houston State (2-1), San Diego State (3-0), USF (2-1), Stanford (1-2), Tennessee (1-2), Tulane (2-1), UAB (3-0), UC Irvine (3-0), UC Santa Barbara (3-0), UNLV (2-1), Washington (3-0), West Virginia (2-1).
Dropped Out: Cal Poly (23), Clemson (27), Tennessee (29).
By conference: SEC 9, ACC 5, Big 12 5, Pac-12 3, American 2, Big Ten 2, A-Sun 1, Big South 1, BWC 1, C-USA 1,
