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Feb. 25, 2013
For Immediate Release
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NORTH CAROLINA TOPS NCBWA DIVISION I POLL

DALLAS (NCBWA) – 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 and Arkansas (preseason No. 1) have held down the No. 1 position in 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 eight different conferences (12 for the season) among the 298 baseball-playing schools in the 2013 NCAA Division I ranks. The polls of 2012 had a NCBWA-poll record 22 different DI conferences and independents rated at least one week.

2013 NCBWA DIVISION I POLL (FEB. 25)
Rk.	School	Conference	Record	Week	Pvs.
1.	North Carolina	Atlantic Coast	6-0	4-0	1
2.	Arkansas	Southeastern	7-1	5-0	3
3.	Vanderbilt	Southeastern	7-1	5-0	4
4.	LSU	Southeastern	6-1	3-1	2
5.	Oregon State	Pac-12	8-0	5-0	8
6.	Oregon	Pac-12	6-1	3-1	5
7.	Florida State	Atlantic Coast	7-0	4-0	9
8.	South Carolina	Southeastern	5-1	3-0	7
9.	UCLA	Pac-12	4-2	2-1	6
10.	Mississippi State	Southeastern	9-0	5-0	13
11.	Arizona	Pac-12	7-1	4-1	10
12.	Rice	Conference USA	5-2	3-1	12
13.	Kentucky	Southeastern	5-1	3-1	11
14.	Stanford	Pac-12	5-2	4-0	14
15.	Oklahoma	Big 12	9-0	5-0	15
16.	N.C. State	Atlantic Coast	5-1	5-0	16
17.	Ole Miss	Southeastern	7-0	4-0	18
18.	Cal State Fullerton	Big West	8-0	4-0	19
19.	Louisville	Big East	6-1	4-0	21
20.	Georgia Tech	Atlantic Coast	6-1	3-1	20
21.	Miami	Atlantic Coast	7-0	4-0	23
22.	Virginia	Atlantic Coast	7-0	5-0	25
23.	UC Irvine	Big West	6-1	3-1	27
24.	Arizona State	Pac-12	4-2	2-1	22
25.	Texas	Big 12	6-1	4-0	29
26.	Clemson	Atlantic Coast	5-1	3-0	30
27.	Florida Gulf Coast	Atlantic Sun	5-1	3-0	-
28.	Cal Poly	Big West	7-0	4-0	-
29.	Florida	Southeastern	3-5	1-4	17
30.	Texas A&M	Southeastern	5-3	3-2	26
Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Alabama (6-1), Appalachian State (4-1), Arkansas State (6-1), Auburn (6-1), Creighton (3-0), FIU (6-1), Georgia Southern (4-2), Louisiana (7-1), Mercer (6-1), Missouri State (5-1), Notre Dame (5-1), Oklahoma State (7-1), Pepperdine (6-2), Pittsburgh (5-1), San Diego State (3-4), South Alabama (7-0), South Carolina-Upstate (5-1), Southeastern Louisiana (5-2), Southern Miss (5-2), TCU (0-6), VCU (5-0), Virginia Tech (6-1).
Dropped out: TCU (24), Southern Miss (28).
By conference: Southeastern 9, Atlantic Coast 7, Pac-12 6, Big West 3, Big 12 2, Atlantic Sun 1, Big East 1, Conference USA 1.

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2013 NCBWA Polls (No. 1 Team):
• Preseason (Arkansas) • Feb. 18 (North Carolina) • Feb. 25 (North Carolina) • March 4 (North Carolina) • March 11 (North Carolina) • March 18 (North Carolina)	• March 25 (North Carolina) • April 1 (North Carolina) • April 8 (North Carolina) • April 15 (North Carolina) • April 22 (North Carolina) • April 29 (Vanderbilt)	• May 6 (Vanderbilt) • May 13 (Vanderbilt) • May 20 (Vanderbilt) • May 27 (LSU) • June 4 (LSU) • June 26 (UCLA)

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