FROM NCBWA RELEASE
DALLAS – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 13th year with its 2010 weekly surveys. Weekly polls will be circulated from Feb. 22-June 29 following the 64th annual NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb., and final CWS competition at historic Rosenblatt Stadium.
The poll voters come from 40 college baseball writers and related media persons from throughout the nation. This week’s poll has representation by 11 different conferences among the 302 baseball-playing schools in the 2010 NCAA Division I ranks, and there have been 14 circuits in the surveys this season. Last year there were 17 different leagues (from 30 in NCAA Division I) among the Top 30 polls. For more information or to join the NCBWA, please go to www.ncbwa.com
Rank School Conference Overall Record Previous Rank
1 Virginia Atlantic Coast 17-3 1
2 Arizona State Pacific-10 20-0 2
3 Georgia Tech ACC 16-2 3
4 LSU Southeastern 16-3 6
5 Florida SEC 16-3 8
6 Florida State ACC 15-4 4
7 TCU Mountain West 15-3 7
8 Clemson ACC 17-2 9
9 Texas Big 12 15-5 5
10 Louisville Big East 17-2 10
11 UCLA Pac-10 16-0 13
12 Miami (Fla.) ACC 14-5 11
13 Oregon State Pac-10 14-3 15
14 Coastal Carolina Big South 17-3 12
15 Oklahoma Big 12 18-2 16
16 Arkansas SEC 13-5 14
17 North Carolina ACC 15-6 17
18 UC Irvine Big West 13-6 21
19 Mississippi SEC 15-5 22
20 Alabama SEC 16-2 23
21 South Carolina SEC 16-4 24
22 Rice Conference USA 12-9 19
23 Vanderbilt SEC 16-4 18
24 Stanford Pac-10 10-4 28
25 Texas A&M Big 12 15-4 26
26 Kentucky SEC 15-5 20
27 Southeastern Louisiana Southland 18-2 30
28 Arizona Pac-10 16-4 NR
29 East Carolina C-USA 11-8 25
30 Western Kentucky Sun Belt 16-5 NR
Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Auburn (14-5), Bethune-Cookman (12-9), Cal State Fullerton (10-9), Cal State Northridge (13-6), College of Charleston (17-5), Connecticut (10-5), Florida International (13-7), George Mason (10-4), Kansas (11-8), Kansas State (15-3), Middle Tennessee State (13-6), New Mexico (14-7), Ohio State (12-4), Oklahoma State (12-2), Oregon (16-6), Southern Miss (13-5), The Citadel (14-5), Tulane (15-6), VMI (18-2), Washington State (11-5).
Dropped Out: Kansas (27), Cal State Fullerton (29)
By conference: SEC 8, ACC 6, Pac-10 5, Big 12 3, C-USA 2, Big East 1, Big South 1, Big West 1, MWC 1, SLC 1, Sun Belt 1.
