Texas Takes Over The Top Spot This Week

USA TODAY/ESPN Top 25 coaches’ baseball poll

April 26, 2010

Rank	School (first-place votes)	Record	Points	Last week
1	Texas (23)	34-7	765	2
2	Arizona State (7)	33-5	738	1
3	Virginia (1)	34-9	665	4
4	Georgia Tech	34-7	653	3
5	UCLA	29-7	586	6
6	Coastal Carolina	36-5	578	8
7	Arkansas	33-8	555	7
8	South Carolina	32-8	552	10
9	LSU	32-9	531	5
10	Florida State	31-10	519	9
11	TCU	30-8	503	12
12	Florida	28-11	459	11
13	Louisville	32-7	422	13
14	Miami (Fla.)	29-11	367	14
15	Mississippi	28-13	278	19
16	Oklahoma	29-11	247	18
17	Vanderbilt	32-11	241	15
18	Cal State-Fullerton	24-13	235	21
19	Arizona	28-11	216	17
20	Kansas State	27-10	194	16
21	Connecticut	33-7	116	NR
22	Oregon	27-13	98	25
23	Stanford	21-13	84	NR
24	Rice	26-16	81	NR
25	Clemson	25-16	72	20

Dropped out: No. 22 Oregon State, No. 23 California, No. 24 Southeastern Louisiana.

Others receiving votes: Virginia Tech (28-14) 50; Pittsburgh (30-10) 44; California (23-14) 37; Oregon State (21-13) 35; New Mexico State (31-12-1) 21; UC-Irvine (24-13) 18; Auburn (27-14) 17; Portland (27-9) 14; Western Kentucky (30-14) 12; College of Charleston (30-12) 10; North Carolina (25-17) 8; Michigan State (26-11) 7; Ohio State (22-13) 6; San Diego (23-15) 6; Alabama (25-15) 5; Liberty (29-11) 5; New Mexico (27-14) 5; Appalachian State (29-8) 4; VMI (29-12) 3; Kansas (25-16) 2; South Alabama (28-16) 2; Southeastern Louisiana (30-12) 2; The Citadel (28-15) 2; Wichita State (25-15) 2; Bethune-Cookman (26-16) 1; Florida Gulf Coast (26-13) 1; Pacific (24-14) 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.