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April 23, 2002
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bo Carter

Rice chimes in at No. 2

CLEMSON STILL NO. 1 IN NCBWA POLL

DALLAS (NCBWA) – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, with a panel of college baseball experts, presents its popular NCAA Division I Top 35 poll in 2002.

Voting on the weekly NCBWA poll is conducted by a select panel of the organization’s members. Each poll of the 2002 season has representation by several different conferences and top independents among the 279 baseball-playing schools in the NCAA Division I ranks.

Weekly polls will continue each week through the end of the College World Series.

Here is the April 23 survey with school records in parentheses:

NCBWA COLLEGE BASEBALL POLL

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School (Record)
Clemson (34-5)
Rice (35-8)
Wake Forest (33-6)
Stanford (27-10)
Alabama (34-7)
South Carolina (31-9)
Mississippi (32-9)
Florida State (38-12)
Texas (34-10)
Houston (29-12)
Florida (30-12)
Cal State Fullerton (27-12)
Georgia Tech (32-8)
East Carolina (29-10)
Baylor (29-14)
Florida Atlantic (32-6)
Nebraska (26-14)
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Wichita State (27-10)
Richmond (35-6)
Texas A&M (31-15)
Oklahoma State (29-11)
South Alabama (28-11)
Arizona State (25-15)
North Carolina (18-14)
Cal State Northridge (29-13)
San Diego State (33-13)
San Jose State (33-12)
James Madison (33-9)
Northwestern State (32-9)
Auburn (27-15)
Louisville (29-10)
Southern California (24-16)
Notre Dame (27-12)
LSU (26-15)
Stetson (32-8)

2002 NCBWA Polls (No. 1 Team):

• January 28 (Stanford)
• February 5 (Stanford)
• February 12 (Stanford)
• February 19 (Stanford)
• February 26 (Stanford)
• March 5 (Stanford)
• March 12 (Florida St.)
• March 19 (Florida St.)
• March 26 (Clemson)
• April 2 (Clemson)
• April 9 (Clemson)
• April 16 (Clemson)

• April 23 (Clemson)
• April 30 (Clemson)
• May 7 (Clemson)
• May 14 (Clemson)
• May 21 (Florida St.)
• May 28 (Florida St.)