USA TODAY/ESPN Top 25 coaches’ baseball poll

March 29, 2010

Rank	School (first-place votes)	Record	Points	Last week
1	Arizona State (27)	23-0	770	1
2	Georgia Tech	21-2	700	3
3	Virginia (3)	20-4	678	2
4	LSU	20-3	676	4
5	UCLA (1)	20-0	670	6
6	Florida State	19-4	606	7
7	Texas	18-6	546	8
8	Louisville	20-3	491	11
9	Oklahoma	20-3	483	12
10	Clemson	18-6	473	5
11	Florida	18-5	460	9
12	TCU	17-5	413	10
13	Arkansas	18-5	360	17
14	Mississippi	19-6	337	18
15	Coastal Carolina	19-5	306	13
16	Miami (Fla.)	16-7	303	14
17	Vanderbilt	21-4	301	20
18	Oregon State	16-5	267	15
19	South Carolina	19-5	213	23
20	Arizona	20-5	197	NR
21	Kansas State	19-3	196	NR
22	Texas A&M	17-6	140	21
23 (tie)	Southeastern Louisiana	22-3	98	25
23 (tie)	Alabama	16-6	98	16
25	Western Kentucky	20-5	68	NR

Dropped out: No. 19 North Carolina (16-9), No. 22 UC-Irvine (14-8), No. 24 Kentucky (16-8).

Others receiving votes: Stanford 52; UC-Irvine 50; North Carolina 37; Oregon 22; East Carolina 11; Pittsburgh 11; The Citadel 8; Kentucky 6; Rice 6; Michigan State 5; Tulane 4; Kansas 3; Pacific 3; Virginia Military 3; San Diego 2; Connecticut 1; East Tennessee State 1.

The 2010 board: The USA TODAY/ESPN Board of Coaches is made up of 31 coaches at Division I institutions. All are members of the American Baseball Coaches Association. The board for the 2010 season: Terry Alexander, Jacksonville; John Anderson, Minnesota; Ed Blankmeyer, St. John’s; Rob Cooper, Wright State; Sherman Corbett, Texas-San Antonio; Tim Corbin, Vanderbilt; David Eldredge, Southern Utah; Mike Gaski, North Carolina-Greensboro; Nino Giarratano, San Francisco; Gary Gilmore, Coastal Carolina; Keith Guttin, Missouri State; Danny Hall, Georgia Tech; Daniel Heefner, Dallas Baptist; Loren Hibbs, Charlotte; Charlie Hickey, Central Connecticut State; George Horton, Oregon; Steve Jaksa, Central Michigan; Omar Johnson, Jackson State; Rick Jones, Tulane; Steve Kittrell, South Alabama; Paul Kostacopoulos, Navy; Kevin Leighton, Manhattan; Gary McClure, Austin Peay; Mervyl Melendez, Bethune-Cookman; Gary Powers, Nevada; Mark Scalf, North Carolina-Wilmington; Jim Schlossnagle, TCU; Matt Senk, Stony Brook; Doug Smith, UC-Riverside; Steve Smith, Baylor; Bob Whalen, Dartmouth.