No Shock, Gamecocks At The Top…
DALLAS, Texas – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continued its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 12th year with its 2011 weekly surveys. This season’s polls have been circulated from Feb. 21-June 30 following the NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb. This is the final poll of the year and ’11 after South Carolina of the Southeastern Conference won back-to-back NCAA baseball championships on June 28 by sweeping Florida in the title round.
The poll voters come from 40 college baseball writers and related media persons from throughout the nation. The final poll has representation by 11 different conferences among the 300 baseball-playing schools in the 2011 NCAA Division I ranks, and five different schools have held down the No. 1 position. There have been 17 separate leagues among the Top 30 in the ‘11 poll, and six different schools – TCU, UCLA, Florida, Vanderbilt, Virginia, and South Carolina – held down the No. 1 position in the NCBWA surveys. For more information or to join the NCBWA, please go to www.ncbwa.com.
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The first 2012 NCBWA DI poll will be released in Jan. 2012.
Rank School Conference Overall Record Previous Rank
1 South Carolina Southeastern 55-14 4
2 Florida SEC53-19 3
3 Virginia ACC 56-12 1
4 Vanderbilt SEC 54-12 2
5 North Carolina ACC 51-16 6
6 California Pacific-10 38-23 11
7 Texas Big 12 49-19 5
8 Texas A&M Big 12 47-22 7
9 Arizona State Pac-10 43-18 8
10 Florida State ACC 46-19 9
11 UC Irvine Big West 43-18 10
12 Oregon State Pac-10 41-19 12
13 Stanford Pac-10 35-22 13
14 Connecticut Big East 45-20-1 14
15 Clemson ACC 43-20 15
16 Cal State Fullerton Big West 41-17 17
17 TCU Mountain West 43-19 16
18 Rice Conference USA 42-21 18
19 Mississippi State SEC 38-25 19
20 Arkansas SEC 40-22 20
21 Dallas Baptist Independent 42-20 21
22 UCLA Pac-10 35-24 22
23 Georgia Tech ACC 42-21 23
24 Oklahoma Big 12 41-19 24
25 Arizona Pac-10 39-21 25
26 Miami (Fla.) ACC 38-23 26
27 Kent State Mid-American 45-17 27
28 Fresno State Western Athletic 40-16 28
29 East Carolina C-USA 41-21 29
30 Southern Miss C-USA 39-19 30
Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Alabama (35-28), Cal State Bakersfield (33-22), Charlotte (43-16), Coastal Carolina (42-20), Creighton (45-16), James Madison (42-19), Oral Roberts (39-22), Stetson (43-20), Texas State (41-23), Troy (43-19).
Dropped Out: None.
By conference: ACC 6, Pac-10 6, SEC 5, Big 12 3, C-USA 3, Big West 2, Big East 1, Independent 1, MAC 1, MWC 1, WAC 1.