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.
Vanderbilt remains in the top spot in this week’s rankings. Virginia (Feb. 16-23-March 2-9) and TCU (March 16) and LSU (March 23) also have top positions 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 10 different conferences among the 302 baseball-playing schools in the 2015 NCAA Division I ranks. There have been 14 conferences with Top 30 rated teams in 2015. 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.
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