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March 24, 2014
For Immediate Release
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ACC boasts top two teams; Ten SEC teams in poll

VIRGINIA TOPS NCBWA DIVISION I POLL

DALLAS (NCBWA) – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 17th year with its 2014 weekly surveys. Polls will be circulated from Feb. 17-June 26 (weekly through June 10) following the 68th annual NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb., at TD Ameritade Park.

Virginia is back atop NCBWA standings this week after holding down the No. 1 position in Feb 24 and March 3 surveys. Others ranked in the stop spot have been Florida State (March 17), South Carolina (March 10), Cal State Fullerton (preseason No. 1), and Oregon State (Feb. 17) in the first seven 2014 surveys. This equals last season’s five teams at No. 1 during the entire January-June NCBWA compilations. 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 among the 302 baseball-playing schools in the 2014 NCAA Division I ranks, and 14 circuits have been rated this season. The rankings of 2012 had a NCBWA-poll record 22 different DI conferences and independents rated at least one week while 12 separate circuits had team rankings in '13.

NCBWA DIVISION I POLL (MARCH 24)
Rk.	School	Conference	Record	Week	Pvs.
1.	Virginia	Atlantic Coast	18-4	3-1	3
2.	Florida State	Atlantic Coast	19-4	2-2	1
3.	LSU	Southeastern	20-4-1	3-0-1	6
4.	South Carolina	Southeastern	19-3	1-2	2
5.	Louisiana	Sun Belt	22-2	5-0	8
6.	Vanderbilt	Southeastern	20-5	2-2	5
7.	Oregon	Pacific-12	17-5	3-0	9
8.	Oregon State	Pacific-12	19-5	1-2	4
9.	Cal Poly	Big West	19-4	2-1	10
10.	Louisville	American Athletic	17-6	2-2	7
11.	Cal State Fullerton	Big West	13-8	3-1	12
12.	Ole Miss	Southeastern	21-4	4-0	15
13.	Rice	Conference USA	19-6	4-0	16
14.	UCLA	Pacific-12	14-8	2-1	14
15.	Mississippi State	Southeastern	17-9	2-1	18
16.	Texas	Big 12	19-6	4-0	19
17.	Houston	American Athletic	19-4	4-1	23
18.	N.C. State	Atlantic Coast	14-8	0-3	11
19.	North Carolina	Atlantic Coast	15-8	1-3	13
20.	Clemson	Atlantic Coast	14-9	2-3	17
21.	Kentucky	Southeastern	17-7	3-1	27
22.	Texas A&M	Southeastern	17-8	3-1	26
23.	Tennessee	Southeastern	19-4	2-2	21
24.	Oklahoma State	Big 12	16-8	2-2	20
25.	Auburn	Southeastern	17-8	4-1	-
26.	UC Santa Barbara	Big West	17-3	4-0	-
27.	Texas Tech	Big 12	19-7	3-2	29
28.	Oklahoma	Big 12	18-7	3-2	30
29.	FIU	Conference USA	20-4	4-0	-
30.	Alabama	Southeastern	15-8	3-2	28
Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Arkansas (13-8), Baylor (13-10), Central Arkansas (14-8), Creighton (11-6-1), Florida (15-9), Georgia Tech (15-9), Indiana (12-9), Kansas (16-8), Liberty (18-7), Maryland (16-6), Memphis (15-8), Mercer (19-6), Miami (13-11), New Mexico (16-8-1), Ohio State (15-7), Pepperdine (17-6), Sam Houston State (16-8), San Diego (15-8), San Diego State (17-6), Seton Hall (15-4), South Florida (15-8), TCU (13-10), Tennessee Tech (19-5), UAB (17-8), UNLV (16-7), VCU (20-3), Washington (16-5-1).
Dropped out: Sam Houston State (22), TCU (24), San Diego (25).
By conference: Southeastern 10, Atlantic Coast 5, Big 12 4, Big West 3, Pacific-12 3, American 2, Conference USA 2, Sun Belt 1

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2014 NCBWA Polls (No. 1 Team):
• Preseason (Cal State Fullerton) • Feb. 17 (Oregon State) • Feb. 24 (Virginia) • March 3 (Virginia) • March 10 (South Carolina) • March 17 (Florida State)	• March 24 (Virginia) • March 31 (Virginia) • April 7 (Virginia) • April 14 (Virginia) • April 21 (Virginia) • April 28 (Virginia)	• May 5 (Oregon State) • May 12 (Oregon State) • May 19 (Oregon State) • May 26 (Louisiana) • June 3 (Louisiana) • June 26 (Vanderbilt)

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