The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) has released its final Division One poll for the 2014 season. Vanderbilt sits atop the final rankings after taking two of three games in the best-of-three College World Series Finals in Omaha, Neb.
Vanderbilt’s title ends a two-year run by Pac-12 Conference powers Arizona and UCLA. Vandy is the fourth SEC member in history to take the crown along with LSU, South Carolina and Georgia.
Virginia led the NCBWA polls for a season-high eight weeks while Vandy achieved its first-ever No. 1 ranking by the group. Louisiana-Lafayette was ranked No. 1 on May 26 and June 3 for the initial time in school history. Oregon State (four weeks – Feb. 17, May 5-12-19), Florida State (March 17), South Carolina (March 10), and Cal State Fullerton (preseason No. 1) were prior top vote recipients for the 18 surveys in 2014. This tops last season’s five total teams at No. 1 during the January-June NCBWA compilations with seven different top-ranked schools holding that distinction.
The preseason 2015 NCBWA DI Top 35 poll will be released in January 2015 after the 17th annual pre-’15 NCBWA All-America team is denoted in December 2014.
Rank School Conference Overall Record Previous Rank
1 Vanderbilt Southeastern 51-21 6
2 Virginia Atlantic Coast 53-16 2
3 Texas Big 12 46-21 9
4 Ole Miss SEC 48-21 8
5 TCU Big 12 48-18 7
6 Louisville American Athletic 50-17 4
7 UC Irvine Big West 41-25 15
8 Texas Tech Big 12 45-21 10
9 Louisiana-Lafayette Sun Belt 58-10 1
10 Oklahoma State Big 12 48-18 3
11 Houston American 48-18 5
12 Pepperdine West Coast 43-18 11
13 Stanford Pac-12 35-26 17
14 Oregon State Pac-12 45-14 12
15 LSU SEC 46-16-1 13
16 Maryland ACC 40-23 20
17 College of Charleston Colonial 44-19 16
18 Cal Poly Big West 47-12 14
19 Kennesaw State Atlantic Sun 40-24 21
20 Indiana Big Ten 44-15 19
21 Florida State ACC 43-17 18
22 Miami (Fla.) ACC 44-19 22
23 South Carolina SEC 44-18 23
24 Rice Conference USA 42-20 25
25 Florida SEC 40-23 24
26 Washington Pac-12 41-17-1 26
27 Oregon Pac-12 44-20 27
28 Mississippi State SEC 39-24 28
29 Alabama SEC 37-24 29
30 Nebraska Big Ten 41-21 30
Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Arkansas (40-25), Cal State Fullerton (34-24), Clemson (36-25), Dallas Baptist (40-21), Jackson State (32-25), Kentucky (37-25), Liberty (41-18), Long Beach State (34-26), Sam Houston State (43-19), San Diego State (42-21), Texas A&M (36-26), UCF (36-23), UNLV (36-25).
Dropped Out: None.
By conference: SEC 7, ACC 4, Big 12 4, Pac-12 4, American 2, Big Ten 2, BWC 2, A-Sun 1, CAA 1, C-USA 1, SBC 1, WCC 1.