NCBWA College Baseball Poll-May 17

May 17, 2010
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Same Names, Some New Spots In This Week’s Rankings

DALLAS, TX - The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues
its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 13th year with its 2010
weekly surveys. Weekly polls will be circulated from Feb. 22-June 29
following the 64th annual NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb., and final
CWS competition at historic Rosenblatt Stadium.

No. 12 Cal State Fullerton (Big West) has joined unranked Dartmouth (Ivy
League) as the first two qualifiers for the NCAA tournament starting
June 4 at 16 regional sites.

The poll voters come from 40 college baseball writers and related media
persons from throughout the nation. This week’s poll has representation
by 10 different conferences among the 302 baseball-playing schools in
the 2010 NCAA Division I ranks, and there have been 16 circuits in the
surveys this season. Last year there were 17 different leagues (from 30
in NCAA Division I) among the Top 30 polls. For more information or to
join the NCBWA, please go to
www.ncbwa.com.

Rank School Conference Overall Record Previous Rank
1 Texas Big 12 43-8 1
2 Virginia Atlantic Coast 43-9 2
3 Arizona State Pacific-10 42-6 3
4 Coastal Carolina Big South 45-6 5
5 Florida Southeastern 37-12 6
6 TCU Mountain West 40-11 4
7 Georgia Tech ACC 41-10 7
8 Florida State ACC 39-13 8
9 South Carolina SEC 41-11 13
10 UCLA Pac-10 37-11 12
11 Louisville Big East 42-10 9
12 Cal State Fullerton Big West 34-14 15
13 Miami (Fla.) ACC 37-13 11
14 Arkansas SEC 38-14 10
15 Oklahoma Big 12 37-14 14
16 Vanderbilt SEC 39-13 17
17 Virginia Tech ACC 36-16 16
18 Connecticut Big East 41-11 22
19 Ole Miss SEC 36-17 18
20 Clemson ACC 33-19 19
21 Auburn SEC 35-17 23
22 Rice Conference USA 32-19 24
23 UC Irvine Big West 32-17 27
24 Arizona Pac-10 31-17 25
25 Oregon Pac-10 34-18 28
26 North Carolina ACC 32-20 21
27 LSU SEC 34-18 20
28 Kansas State Big 12 34-16 29
29 San Diego West Coast 31-17 30
30 Stanford Pac-10 27-20 26

Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Bethune-Cookman (32-20),
California (27-18), Charlotte (35-13), College of Charleston (39-14),
Florida Atlantic (31-19), Florida Gulf Coast (34-17), Fresno State
(32-22), Georgia Southern (33-19), Indiana State (32-15), James Madison
(26-20), Kentucky (29-23), Liberty (37-15), UL Lafayette (34-17), New
Mexico (34-17), Pittsburgh (36-14), Southeastern Louisiana (39-14),
Southern Miss (30-19), Tennessee (29-23), Texas A&M (33-18-1), The
Citadel (34-20), Washington State (28-18).

Dropped Out: None.

By conference: ACC 7, SEC 7, Pac-10 5, Big 12 3, Big East 2, Big West 2,
Big South 1, C-USA 1, MWC 1, WCC 1.

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