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April 9, 2012
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bo Carter
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After eight weeks, there's a new No. 1

FLORIDA STATE TOPS NCBWA DIVISION I POLL

DALLAS (NCBWA) – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 15th year with its 2012 weekly surveys. Polls will be circulated from Feb. 20-June 28, following the 66th annual NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb., at the second-year TD Ameritade Stadium.

Florida State, with coaching legend Mike Martin racking up his 1,700th career win last Sunday at Georgia Tech, has replaced Florida atop the survey for the first time this season. The Gators had held the No. 1 NCBWA ranking in the first eight '12 polls, including preseason. There now have been two conferences represented in the No. 1 locale.

The poll voters come from 42 college baseball writers and related media persons from throughout the nation. This week's poll has representation by 11 different conferences among the 291 baseball-playing schools in the 2012 NCAA Division I ranks, and there have been 12 circuits in the surveys this season. Last year there were 16 different leagues (from 30 in NCAA Division I) among the Top 30 polls.

2012 NCBWA DIVISION I POLL (APRIL 9)
Rk.	School	Conference	Record	Week	Pvs.
1.	Florida State	Atlantic Coast	27-5	3-1	2
2.	Texas A&M	Big 12	26-6	4-0	4
3.	Kentucky	Southeastern	30-3	3-1	7
4.	Florida	Southeastern	25-7	1-3	1
5.	Stanford	Pac-12	19-7	3-1	6
6.	Miami	Atlantic Coast	24-8	3-1	9
7.	South Carolina	Southeastern	23-9	3-1	8
8.	LSU	Southeastern	25-7	3-1	12
9.	North Carolina	Atlantic Coast	23-9	1-3	3
10.	Arkansas	Southeastern	24-7	2-1	11
11.	UCLA	Pac-12	21-7	1-2	5
12.	Arizona	Pac-12	23-9	2-2	10
13.	UCF	Conference USA	26-7	3-1	14
14.	Cal State Fullerton	Big West	21-10	4-0	15
15.	Rice	Conference USA	23-11	2-2	13
16.	Oregon	Pac-12	20-9	2-1	19
17.	Baylor	Big 12	25-7	3-0	21
18.	Purdue	Big Ten	24-5	4-0	20
19.	Louisville	Big East	23-9	3-1	18
20.	Ole Miss	Southeastern	21-10	1-2	16
21.	Arizona State	Pac-12	19-12	3-0	23
22.	Oregon State	Pac-12	18-11	1-3	17
23.	Virginia	Atlantic Coast	21-10-1	3-0	29
24.	San Diego	West Coast	25-8	2-1	28
25.	Texas	Big 12	17-12	2-1	27
26.	N.C.State	Atlantic Coast	21-9	2-2	26
27.	Appalachian State	Southern	24-6	2-1	30
28.	Georgia	Southeastern	19-13	1-2	25
29.	Sam Houston State	Southland	23-9	4-0	-
30.	East Carolina	Conference USA	22-8-1	3-0-1	24
Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Army (23-8), Belmont (23-10), Cal Poly (20-10), Clemson (18-14), Dallas Baptist (21-9), FIU (19-13), Georgia Tech (19-14), Gonzaga (20-9), Indiana State (26-7), Liberty (27-8), Maryland (21-13), Mississippi State (20-12), Missouri State (24-10), New Mexico State (25-9), North Dakota State (22-6), Oklahoma (18-14), Portland (19-7), USF (23-10), Stony Brook (19-9), Tennessee (20-12), Texas State (20-11), Tulane (21-10), Virginia Tech (22-12), Wright State (19-10).
Dropped out: Oklahoma (22), Georgia Tech (24).
By conference: Southeastern 7, Pac-12 6, Atlantic Coast 5, Big 12 3, Conference USA 3, Big East 1, Big West 1, Big Ten 1, SoCon 1, Southland 1, West Coast 1

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2012 NCBWA Polls (No. 1 Team):
• Preseason (Florida) • Feb. 20 (Florida) • Feb. 27 (Florida) • March 5 (Florida) • March 12 (Florida) • March 19 (Florida) • March 26 (Florida)	• April 2 (Florida) • April 9 (Florida State) • April 16 (Florida) • April 23 (Florida State) • April 30 (Florida State) • May 7 (Florida State)	• May 14 (South Carolina) • May 21 (Florida State) • May 28 (Florida) • June 5 (Florida) • June 12 (Florida) • June 26 (Arizona)

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