Final Pre-NCAA Tournament Poll…
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, Florida, Vanderbilt, Virginia, and South Carolina have held the No. 1 NCBWA rankings in ’11. All 16 NCAA Regional hosts are ranked among this week’s Top 30.
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 17 circuits in the early surveys this season. Last year there also were 16 different leagues (from 30 in NCAA Division I) among the Top 30 polls. For more information, please go to www.NCBWA.com.
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Rank School Conference Overall Record Previous Rank
1 Virginia Atlantic Coast 49-9 4
2 Vanderbilt Southeastern 47-10 2
3 Florida SEC 45-16 5
4 South Carolina SEC 45-14 1
5 Texas Big 12 43-15 3
6 TCU Mountain West 42-17 7
7 Florida State Atlantic Coast 42-17 9
8 Texas A&M Big 12 42-18 14
9 Clemson ACC 41-18 10
10 North Carolina ACC 45-14 8
11 Cal State Fullerton Big West 40-15 11
12 Arizona State Pacific-10 39-16 6
13 Rice Conference USA 41-19 15
14 Oklahoma Big 12 41-17 12
15 UC Irvine Big West 39-16 16
16 Arkansas SEC 38-20 18
17 UCLA Pac-10 33-22 19
18 Oregon State Pac-10 38-17 13
19 Georgia Tech ACC 40-19 17
20 Stanford Pac-10 32-20 20
21 Fresno State Western Athletic 40-14 24
22 Miami (Fla.) ACC 36-21 23
23 Arizona Pac-10 36-19 26
24 Southern Miss C-USA 39-17 21
25 Connecticut Big East 41-17-1 22
26 Creighton Missouri Valley 44-14 27
27 East Carolina C-USA 39-19 25
28 Charlotte Atlantic 10 42-14 28
29 Coastal Carolina Big South 41-18 NR
30 Kent State Mid-American 43-15 NR
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Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Cal State Bakersfield (33-22), California (31-20), Dallas Baptist (39-17), FIU (40-18-1), James Madison (40-17), LSU (36-20), Maine (32-22), Manhattan (34-17), Oklahoma State (35-23), Oregon (33-26-1), Seton Hall (33-23), Stetson (41-18), Texas State (40-21), Troy (42-17), UCF (38-21).
Dropped Out: California (29), Troy (30).
By conference: ACC 6, Pac-10 5, SEC 4, Big 12 3, C-USA 3, Big West 2, A-10 1, Big East 1, Big South 1, MAC 1, MVC 1, MWC 1, WAC 1.