South Carolina Leads “Omaha 8″ Atop Poll…
DALLAS, TX - The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association
continued its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 11th year with
its 2010 weekly surveys. This season’s polls have been circulated from
Feb. 23-June 29/30 following the NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb. This
is the final poll of the year and ’10 after South Carolina of the
Southeastern Conference won its first NCAA baseball championship on June
29 by downing UCLA 2-1 in 11 innings.
The poll voters come from 40 college baseball writers and related media
persons from throughout the nation. The final poll has representation by
10 different conferences among the 302 baseball-playing schools in the
2009 NCAA Division I ranks, and five different schools have held down
the No. 1 position. There have been 16 separate leagues among the Top 30
in ’10 poll, and four different schools – (chronologically) Texas, LSU,
Virginia, and Arizona State – held down the No. 1 position in the NCBWA
2010 polls. For more information or to join the NCBWA, please go to
www.ncbwa.com.
The first 2011 NCBWA DI poll will be released in Jan. 2011.
Rank School Conference Overall Record Previous Rank
1 South Carolina SEC 54-16 5
2 UCLA Pac-10 51-17 4
3 TCU Mountain West 54-14 3
4 Clemson Atlantic Coast 45-25 8
5 Oklahoma Big 12 50-18 6
6 Florida State ACC 48-20 7
7 Arizona State Pac-10 52-10 1
8 Florida SEC 47-17 2
9 Texas Big 12 50-13 9
10 Virginia ACC 51-14 10
11 Coastal Carolina Big South 55-10 11
12 Cal State Fullerton Big West 46-18 12
13 Miami (Fla.) ACC 43-20 13
14 Arkansas SEC 43-21 14
15 Vanderbilt SEC 46-20 15
16 Georgia Tech ACC 47-15 16
17 Louisville Big East 50-14 17
18 Alabama SEC 42-25 18
19 Auburn SEC 43-21 19
20 UC Irvine Big West 39-21 20
21 Rice Conference USA 40-23 21
22 Connecticut Big East 48-16 22
23 Virginia Tech ACC 40-22 23
24 Texas A&M Big 12 43-21-1 24
25 Oregon Pac-10 40-24 25
26 North Carolina ACC 38-22 26
27 College of Charleston Southern 44-19 27
28 St. John’s Big East 43-20 28
29 (tie) LSU SEC 41-22 t-29
29 (tie) Ole Miss SEC 39-24 t-29
Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Arizona (34-24), Baylor,
(36-24), Florida Atlantic (37-24), Hawai’i (35-28), Kansas State
(37-22), Minnesota (32-30), New Mexico (38-22), San Diego (37-22),
Southern Miss (36-24), Stanford (31-25), The Citadel (43-22), Washington
State (37-22).
Dropped Out: None.
By conference: SEC 8, ACC 7, Big 12 3, Big East 3, Pac-10 3, Big West 2,
Big South 1, C-USA 1, MWC 1, SoCon 1 .