DALLAS – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 16th year with its 2013 weekly surveys. Polls will be circulated from Feb. 18-June 27 (weekly through June 11) following the 67th annual NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb., at TD Ameritade Park.
North Carolina (10 consecutive weeks) and Arkansas (preseason No. 1) have held down the No. 1 position throughout the 2013 surveys. The poll voters come from 44 college baseball writers and related media persons from throughout the nation.
The current poll has representation by 10 different conferences (17 total for the season) among the 298 baseball-playing schools in the 2013 NCAA Division I ranks. The surveys of 2012 had a NCBWA-poll record 22 different DI conferences and independents rated at least one week. For more information or to join the NCBWA, please go to www.ncbwa.com.
Rank-School-2013 Record-Previous Rank
1 North Carolina Atlantic Coast 39-2 1
2 LSU Southeastern 37-4 2
3 Cal State Fullerton Big West 34-6 4
4 Vanderbilt SEC 35-6 3
5 Virginia ACC 35-6 8
6 Oregon State Pac-12 30-8 6
7 Oregon Pac-12 29-10 7
8 UCLA Pac-12 25-11 12
9 Florida State ACC 31-9 5
10 Mississippi State SEC 32-10 11
11 South Carolina SEC 31-10 15
12 Louisville Big East 30-9 9
13 NC State ACC 32-10 17
14 Oklahoma Big 12 31-10 13
15 Arkansas SEC 27-15 10
16 Arizona State Pac-12 24-12-1 14
17 Indiana Big Ten 29-8 19
18 Ole Miss SEC 29-12 20
19 Georgia Tech ACC 27-13 16
20 Rice Conference USA 28-14 23
21 Stanford Pac-12 22-12 24
22 UC Irvine Big West 25-11 21
23 Cal Poly Big West 26-11 22
24 Oklahoma State Big 12 27-11 27
25 Kentucky SEC 24-15 18
26 Mercer Atlantic Sun 32-11 28
27 Arizona Pac-12 25-14 25
28 Notre Dame Big East 22-15 29
29 Clemson ACC 27-13 26
30 UNC Wilmington Colonial 30-11 NR
Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Alabama (24-18), CSU Bakersfield (27-14), Campbell (35-8), Central Arkansas (28-10), Coastal Carolina (25-15), Creighton (22-9), Dartmouth (26-7), Florida (22-19), Gonzaga (26-11-1), Kansas State (28-13), Lamar (30-11), Louisiana-Lafayette (27-13), Miami (Fla.) (24-15), Michigan State (22-11), New Mexico (24-16), North Florida (29-12), Ohio State (25-13), Pittsburgh (29-10), San Diego (24-15), South Alabama (29-12), USF (26-14), Southern Miss (21-18), Troy (29-11), UNLV (27-12).
Dropped Out: Coastal Carolina (30).
By conference: SEC 7, ACC 6, Pac-12 6, Big West 3, Big 12 2, Big East 2, A-Sun 1, Big Ten 1, Colonial 1, C-USA 1.
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