St. Thomas Leads This Week’s Rankings
DALLAS (NCBWA) – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA polls with the NCBWA/D3baseball.com Division III Poll. Weekly polls continue through the NCAA Division III Championship.
The poll voters come from 25 college baseball writers, sports information directors and related media persons from throughout the nation.
| NCBWA/D3BASEBALL.COM DIVISION III POLL (MARCH 2) | ||||
| Rk. | School [1st place] | Record | Pts. | Pvs. |
| 1. | St. Thomas [19] | 0-0 | 613 | 1 |
| 2. | Wooster [5] | 0-0 | 598 | 2 |
| 3. | Kean | 0-0 | 554 | 3 |
| 4. | Eastern Connecticut | 0-0 | 522 | 4 |
| 5. | Chapman [1] | 10-2 | 497 | 7 |
| 6. | Trinity (Conn.) | 0-0 | 490 | 5 |
| 7. | Salisbury | 5-1 | 477 | 6 |
| 8. | Heidelberg | 0-0 | 385 | 10 |
| 9. | Carthage | 0-0 | 380 | 8 |
| 10. | RPI | 0-0 | 321 | 13 |
| 11. | Adrian | 0-0 | 301 | 15 |
| 12. | Pomona-Pitzer | 7-4 | 295 | 12 |
| 13. | UW-Stevens Point | 0-0 | 285 | 18 |
| 14. | Marietta | 0-0 | 263 | 14 |
| 15. | Keystone | 0-0 | 245 | 11 |
| 16. | Southern Maine | 0-0 | 225 | 16 |
| 17. | Pacific Lutheran | 9-1 | 220 | - |
| 18. | Cortland State | 2-1 | 200 | 17 |
| 19. | Rose-Hulman | 3-0 | 139 | 21 |
| 20. | Shenandoah | 3-3 | 138 | 9 |
| 21. | St. Scholastica | 0-0 | 120 | 22 |
| 22. | Wheaton (Mass.) | 0-0 | 107 | - |
| 23. | Linfield | 8-4 | 85 | 24 |
| 24. | St. Olaf | 2-0 | 78 | 25 |
| 25. | Mississippi College | 8-1 | 74 | - |
| Also receiving votes: UW-Whitewater 66, Millsaps 64, Penn State-Behrend 60, Otterbein 44, Texas Lutheran 41, Rhodes 34, Birmingham-Southern 31, Beloit 27, Johns Hopkins 24, George Fox 23, St. Joseph’s (Maine) 17, Texas-Tyler 16, Trinity (Texas) 16, Virginia Wesleyan 14, Washington and Jefferson 9, Illinois Wesleyan 6, Huntingdon 5, Ithaca 5, Wheaton (Ill.) 5, UW-Oshkosh 4, Coe 1, Ohio Wesleyan 1. | ||||
| Dropped out: George Fox (19), Texas-Tyler (20), Farmingdale State (23). | ||||
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