TUCSON, Ariz. — The University of Virginia has been ranked No. 1 in the latest Collegiate Baseball newspaper NCAA Division I baseball poll.
The Cavaliers, ranked No. 1 six of the last seven weeks by Collegiate Baseball, only played one game last week due to final exams as Virginia beat Virginia Commonwealth, 14-3. The Cavaliers have a superb 2.23 team ERA, and the pitching staff has 484 strikeouts and 107 walks, nearly a 5:1 strikeout to walk ratio. On defense, the team’s fielding percentage is .983 with only 30 errors in 48 games. The offense is averaging 7.7 runs per contest.
South Carolina, ranked No. 1 last week, dropped two of three at Mississippi and is now tied for second in the Southeastern Conference with an 18-6 league record.
Poll Notes: Several other teams have been hot. Coastal Carolina has won eight straight while North Carolina, Stetson, and Arizona have each won six in a row. In key series over the past weekend, Oregon St. beat California two of three, Arkansas beat Florida two of three, and Texas Christian beat Oklahoma St. two of three. No top 30 teams ranked last week fell out of the poll this week. Teams that just missed being ranked were Texas St. (31-16), St. John’s (26-17), Hawaii (27-20), Troy (34-14), Florida International (32-16, 12 straight wins), Michigan St. (30-14), Stanford (25-16), and Mississippi (27-21).
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| NCAA Div. I Poll (As of May 9, 2011) | ||
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| Rank School (Record) | Points | Previous |
| 1. Virginia (43-5) | 495 | 2 |
| 2. Vanderbilt (40-6) | 494 | 3 |
| 3. Oregon St. (34-11) | 490 | 4 |
| 4. South Carolina (37-10) | 489 | 1 |
| 5. Florida (36-12) | 487 | 5 |
| 6. Texas (36-12) | 486 | 6 |
| 7. Arizona St. (35-11) | 485 | 7 |
| 8. Texas Christian (33-14) | 481 | 8 |
| 9. Georgia Tech. (33-14) | 479 | 10 |
| 10. Florida St. (36-12) | 477 | 11 |
| 11. Cal. St. Fullerton (33-13) | 475 | 12 |
| 12. Texas A&M (32-16) | 474 | 9 |
| 13. UCLA (27-16) | 472 | 13 |
| 14. Oklahoma (35-13) | 466 | 15 |
| 15. Connecticut (33-13-1) | 465 | 16 |
| 16. Miami, Fla. (31-16) | 461 | 14 |
| 17. North Carolina (37-10) | 460 | 17 |
| 18. Southern Miss. (36-11) | 456 | 20 |
| 19. Stetson (37-10) | 453 | 22 |
| 20. Clemson (32-15) | 451 | 21 |
| 21. Oklahoma St. (31-15) | 449 | 19 |
| 22. U.C. Irvine (31-13) | 447 | 23 |
| 23. Fresno St. (32-11) | 446 | 18 |
| 24. Coastal Carolina (33-15) | 442 | 30 |
| 25. California (28-16) | 439 | 24 |
| 26. Arizona (30-16) | 437 | 26 |
| 27. Rice (32-16) | 436 | 29 |
| 28. Arkansas (32-15) | 435 | 27 |
| 29. Charlotte (36-11) | 434 | 25 |
| 30. Kent St. (32-13) | 432 | 28 |