ASU Makes It A Clean Sweep Of Polls
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.
The poll voters come from 40 college baseball writers and related media persons from throughout the nation. This week’s poll has representation by 12 different conferences among the 302 baseball-playing schools in the 2010 NCAA Division I ranks, and there have been 15 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 Arizona State Pacific-10 25-1 1
2 Georgia Tech Atlantic Coast 25-3 3
3 LSU Southeastern 23-4 4
4 UCLA Pac-10 23-1 6
5 Virginia ACC 23-6 2
6 Texas Big 12 21-7 7
7 Louisville Big East 24-3 8
8 Florida State ACC 21-6 5
9 Arkansas SEC 22-6 10
10 Florida SEC 20-7 9
11 TCU Mountain West 20-6 11
12 Miami (Fla.) ACC 20-7 15
13 Coastal Carolina Big South 23-5 17
14 Clemson ACC 20-8 12
15 Oregon State Pac-10 18-6 16
16 South Carolina SEC 22-6 19
17 Oklahoma Big 12 22-6 13
18 Ole Miss SEC 21-8 14
19 Vanderbilt SEC 24-6 18
20 North Carolina ACC 20-10 22
21 UC Irvine Big West 17-8 24
22 Southeastern Louisiana Southland 24-5 21
23 Arizona Pac-10 20-8 20
24 Western Kentucky Sun Belt 22-7 25
25 Alabama SEC 19-8 29
26 College of Charleston Southern 23-7 NR
27 East Carolina Conference USA 18-11 23
28 Stanford Pacific-10 13-9 26
29 Rice Conference USA 17-12 NR
30 Kansas State Big 12 21-5 28
Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Arkansas State (18-10), Cal State Fullerton (15-11), California (16-10), Charlotte (19-6), Connecticut (16-7), Elon (19-10), Kansas (18-10-1), Kentucky (18-11), Liberty (18-9), Michigan State (19-5), NC State (18-10), New Mexico (19-10), Ohio State (16-8), Oregon (19-10), Pacific (17-9), San Diego (14-12), South Alabama (21-10), St. John’s (16-9), Texas A&M (18-8-1), Texas State (17-9), The Citadel (21-8), Tulane (19-10), Virginia Tech (20-10), VMI (23-5), Wichita State (17-9).
Dropped Out: Texas A&M (27), Kentucky (30)
By conference: SEC 7, ACC 6, Pac-10 5, Big 12 3, C-USA 2, Big East 1, Big South 1, Big West 1, MWC 1, Southern 1, Southland 1, Sun Belt 1.