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March 4, 2013
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bo Carter
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Tar Heels remain at No. 1 with 10-0 start

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

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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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