DALLAS – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 14th year with its 2011 weekly surveys. Polls will be circulated from Feb. 21-June 28 following the 65th annual NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb., at the new TD Ameritade Stadium.
To date, TCU, UCLA and Florida have held the No. 1 NCBWA rankings in ’11.
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 300 baseball-playing schools in the 2010 NCAA Division I ranks, and there have been 13 circuits in the early surveys this season. Last year there were 16 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.
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Rank School Conference Overall Record Previous Rank
1 Florida Southeastern 18-2 2
2 Vanderbilt SEC 19-2 1
3 Virginia Atlantic Coast 19-2 5
4 Arizona State Pacific-10 15-4 8
5 Texas Big 12 15-5 10
6 South Carolina SEC 14-4 6
7 Florida State ACC 16-4 4
8 Oklahoma Big 12 17-5 3
9 Texas A&M Big 12 15-5 12
10 LSU SEC 16-4 7
11 TCU Mountain West 12-7 9
12 Arkansas SEC 15-4 11
13 North Carolina ACC 18-3 17
14 Clemson ACC 10-7 14
15 UC Irvine Big West 14-2 15
16 Arizona Pac-10 15-5 13
17 Georgia Tech ACC 17-4 22
18 UCLA Pac-10 8-6 16
19 Cal State Fullerton Big West 11-7 20
20 Stanford Pac-10 6-5 18
21 Fresno State Western Athletic 14-2 25
22 Auburn SEC 14-6 26
23 Rice Conference USA 13-9 24
24 Oregon Pac-10 11-7 28
25 California Pac-10 12-5 27
26 Oregon State Pac-10 15-4 30
27 Louisville Big East 12-7 19
28 College of Charleston Southern 15-6 21
29 Coastal Carolina Big South 13-8 23
30 Southern Miss C-USA 15-3 NR
Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Alabama (13-7), Baylor (13-7), Bethune-Cookman (10-12), Cal State Bakersfield (16-5), Charlotte (15-5), Connecticut (8-9), Creighton (15-4), East Carolina (16-4), Georgia Southern (12-9), Georgia State (18-4), James Madison (15-5), Kansas State (12-7), Louisiana-Lafayette (9-10), Miami (12-8), Nebraska (14-7), New Mexico State (15-5), Ole Miss (15-6), Southeastern Louisiana (13-7), Stetson (16-4), Tennessee (16-4), Texas State (15-4), Texas Tech (14-7), Troy (16-4), Tulane (16-4), UCF (16-4), UNLV (17-6), Virginia Tech (12-10), Wichita State (13-6), Xavier (13-7).
Dropped Out: Baylor (29).
By conference: Pac-10 7, SEC 6, ACC 5, Big 12 3, Big West 2, C-USA 2, Big East 1, Big South 1, MWC 1, SoCon 1, WAC 1.
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