USA TODAY/ESPN Top 25 coaches’ baseball poll

March 22, 2010

Rank	School (first-place votes)	Record	Points	Last week
1	Arizona State (23)	20-0	765	1
2	Virginia (7)	17-3	715	2
3	Georgia Tech	16-2	655	4
4	LSU	16-3	643	3
5	Clemson	17-2	596	7
6	UCLA (1)	16-0	592	10
7	Florida State	15-4	589	5
8	Texas	15-5	537	6
9	Florida	16-3	534	11
10	TCU	15-3	498	8
11	Louisville	17-2	453	9
12	Oklahoma	18-2	428	13
13	Coastal Carolina	17-3	416	12
14	Miami (Fla.)	14-5	347	14
15	Oregon State	14-3	335	18
16	Alabama	16-2	280	21
17	Arkansas	13-5	237	15
18	Mississippi	15-5	225	19
19	North Carolina	15-6	204	17
20	Vanderbilt	16-4	194	16
21	Texas A&M	15-4	136	23
22	UC-Irvine	13-6	108	24
23	South Carolina	16-4	88	NR
24	Kentucky	15-5	83	20
25	Southeastern Louisiana	18-2	73	NR

Dropped out: No. 22 Rice (12-9), No. 25 Kansas State (15-3).

Others receiving votes: Kansas State 67; Arizona 61; Rice 57; Stanford 39; Oregon 21; Western Kentucky 18; Oklahoma State 17; College of Charleston 13; Cal State-Fullerton 8; New Mexico 8; N.C. State 8; Tulane 8; Ohio State 6; VMI 6; Wichita State 4; Kansas 2; Southern Mississippi 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.