DALLAS (NCBWA) – 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 10) following the 69th annual NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb., at TD Ameritade Park.
LSU becomes the fourth school to hold the number one ranking in 2015 NCBWA poll, as the Tigers move into the top spot of this week’s rankings. Vanderbilt (preseason No. 1) Virginia (Feb. 16-23-March 2-9) and TCU (March 16) have also held down the No. 1 position in the initial 2015 surveys. The poll voters come from 44 college baseball writers and related media persons from throughout the nation.
The current survey has representation by nine different conferences among the 302 baseball-playing schools in the 2015 NCAA Division I ranks. There have been 12 conferences with Top 30 rated teams in 2015. The rankings of 2012 had a NCBWA-poll record 22 different Division I conferences and independents rated at least one week while 19 separate circuits had team rankings in ’14.
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