March 1, 2010

Rank	School (first-place votes)	Record	Points	Preseason ranking
1	LSU	7-0	760	2
2	Virginia	6-1	712	4
3	Florida State	6-0	691	5
4	Arizona State	7-0	651	8
5	Texas	5-2	615	1
6	Florida	5-0	591	9
7	Georgia Tech	7-1	574	10
8	TCU	5-1	502	12
9	Clemson	6-0	443	15
10	Coastal Carolina	7-1	420	19
11	Miami (Fla.)	5-1	408	13
12	North Carolina	6-1	393	11
13	Louisville	7-0	387	20
14	Cal State-Fullerton	2-4	299	3
15	Oregon State	5-2	291	14
16	UC-Irvine	4-3	283	7
17	Arkansas	5-1	266	16
18	UCLA	6-0	222	NR
19	Mississippi	6-1	199	17
20	Rice	3-4	189	6
21	East Carolina	4-3	171	18
22	Oklahoma	6-1	161	22
23	South Carolina	4-2	149	NR
24	Stanford	4-3	127	25
25	Ohio State	5-1	117	21

Dropped out: No. 23 San Diego (4-4), No. 24 Southern Mississippi (4-3).

Others receiving votes: Vanderbilt 115; Kentucky 77; San Diego 45; Wichita State 37; North Carolina State 31; Texas A&M 31; St. John’s 19; Western Kentucky 16; Georgia 15; New Mexico 15; Jacksonville 10; Alabama 8; Kansas 6; Florida International 4; Middle Tennessee 4; California 3; Florida Gulf Coast 3; Fresno State 3; Southern Mississippi 3; UAB 2; Liberty 2; College of Charleston 1; Oregon 1; Southeastern Louisiana 1; Washington State 1; Winthrop 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.