Texas & Georgia Tech Both Make Jumps This Week

USA TODAY/ESPN Top 25 coaches’ baseball poll

April 19, 2010

Rank	School (first-place votes)	Record	Points	Last week
1	Arizona State (27)	31-3	770	1
2	Texas (2)	30-7	730	4
3	Georgia Tech	31-5	696	5
4	Virginia (2)	29-9	645	3
5	LSU	30-6	638	6
6	UCLA	27-5	612	2
7	Arkansas	31-6	608	8
8	Coastal Carolina	32-5	516	10
9	Florida State	28-9	488	7
10	South Carolina	28-8	467	13
11	Florida	25-10	458	9
12	TCU	27-7	455	11
13	Louisville	29-6	429	12
14	Miami (Fla.)	27-9	395	15
15	Vanderbilt	29-9	288	19
16	Kansas State	26-8	259	20
17	Arizona	26-9	246	21
18	Oklahoma	26-10	231	14
19	Mississippi	24-13	168	18
20	Clemson	23-14	167	16
21	Cal State-Fullerton	20-13	116	24
22	Oregon State	20-11	112	17
23	California	22-11	96	NR
24	Southeastern Louisiana	29-9	65	23
25	Oregon	23-12	64	NR

Dropped out: No. 22 Western Kentucky, No. 25 UC-Irvine.

Others receiving votes: Rice (23-15) 42; Pittsburgh (26-9) 41; East Carolina (24-12) 40; Connecticut (27-7) 36; Virginia Tech (25-13) 26; Western Kentucky (27-12) 26; UC-Irvine (20-13) 21; Auburn (24-13) 20; Michigan State (23-9) 14; New Mexico State (26-12) 12; Ohio State (21-10) 11; Portland (23-9) 11; Kentucky (22-14) 10; New Mexico (24-13) 6; North Carolina State (25-13) 6; The Citadel (26-13) 6; North Carolina (22-16) 5; Pacific (22-12) 5; Stanford (18-13) 5; Tulane (23-14) 4; Liberty (25-10) 2; San Diego (20-15) 2; South Alabama (26-15) 2; Bethune-Cookman (23-14) 1; Florida Gulf Coast (23-12) 1; Kansas (22-14) 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.