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March 23, 2015
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bo Carter
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SEC has Top 3 and 5 of Top 7

LSU TOPS NCBWA DIVISION I POLL

DALLAS (NCBWA) – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 18th year with its 2015 weekly surveys. Polls will be circulated from Feb. 16-June 25 (weekly through June 10) following the 69th annual NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb., at TD Ameritade Park.

LSU becomes the fourth school to hold the number one ranking in 2015 NCBWA poll, as the Tigers move into the top spot of this week’s rankings. Vanderbilt (preseason No. 1) Virginia (Feb. 16-23-March 2-9) and TCU (March 16) have also held down the No. 1 position in the initial 2015 surveys. The poll voters come from 44 college baseball writers and related media persons from throughout the nation.

The current survey has representation by nine different conferences among the 302 baseball-playing schools in the 2015 NCAA Division I ranks. There have been 12 conferences with Top 30 rated teams in 2015. The rankings of 2012 had a NCBWA-poll record 22 different Division I conferences and independents rated at least one week while 19 separate circuits had team rankings in '14.

2015 NCBWA DIVISION I POLL (MARCH 23)
Rk.	School	Conference	Record	Week	Pvs.
1.	LSU	Southeastern	21-3	3-1	2
2.	Vanderbilt	Southeastern	19-5	3-1	4
3.	Texas A&M	Southeastern	24-1	3-1	5
4.	TCU	Big 12	17-4	3-2	1
5.	UCLA	Pacific-12	17-5	3-0	7
6.	Florida	Southeastern	20-5	2-2	3
7.	South Carolina	Southeastern	18-6	1-3	6
8.	Louisville	Atlantic Coast	18-6	4-0	16
9.	UCF	American Athletic	20-5	3-1	15
10.	Florida State	Atlantic Coast	19-6	2-2	12
11.	Texas	Big 12	16-8	3-1	14
12.	Virginia	Atlantic Coast	14-7	2-2	9
13.	Southern California	Pacific-12	19-5	2-2	13
14.	Rice	Conference USA	16-9	1-3	8
15.	Miami, Florida	Atlantic Coast	18-7	3-1	17
16.	Arizona State	Pacific-12	15-7	3-1	19
17.	Texas Tech	Big 12	16-8	2-3	10
18.	Oregon	Pacific-12	15-8	1-2	11
19.	Houston	American Athletic	17-7	4-0	21
20.	Maryland	Big Ten	17-4	6-0	25
21.	Oklahoma State	Big 12	16-7	3-1	23
22.	North Carolina	Atlantic Coast	14-9	2-2	18
23.	Dallas Baptist	Missouri Valley	18-3	3-1	24
24.	UC Santa Barbara	Big West	16-6	3-1	26
25.	Florida Atlantic	Conference USA	20-5	2-2	20
26.	Illinois	Big Ten	17-5-1	3-1	27
27.	Oregon State	Pacific-12	18-5	3-0	30
28.	California	Pacific-12	18-5	3-1	29
29.	Mississippi State	Southeastern	18-8	2-2	22
30.	Indiana	Big Ten	15-5	2-1	28
Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Alabama (13-9), Arizona (19-6), Cal State Northridge (19-5), Coastal Carolina (17-6), Duke (18-6), Georgia Tech (16-7), Missouri (18-6), Nebraska (17-6), Nevada (20-4), Oklahoma (17-9), Old Dominion (12-8), Ole Miss (13-10), San Diego (13-8), San Diego State (19-5), UNC Wilmington (15-6), Wright State (15-6).
Dropped out: None.
By conference: Pac-12 6, Southeastern 6, Atlantic Coast 5, Big 12 4, Big Ten 3, American Athletic 2, Conference USA 2, Big West 1, Missouri Valley 1.

Founded in 1962, the NCBWA is dedicated to the advancement of college baseball. Membership is open to writers, broadcasters and publicists of the sport. Members receive a membership card, directory, newsletter updates and official votes in the Dick Howser Trophy, Regional Players of the Year and NCBWA All-America voting. The NCBWA also sponsors Division I Players of the Week, the Stopper of the Year, and publication and writing contests.

2015 NCBWA Polls (No. 1 Team):
• Preseason (Vanderbilt) • Feb. 16 (Virginia) • Feb. 23 (Virginia) • March 2 (Virginia) • March 9 (Virginia) • March 16 (TCU)	• March 23 (LSU) • March 30 (Vanderbilt) • April 6 (Vanderbilt) • April 13 (Texas A&M) • April 20 (LSU) • April 27 (LSU)	• May 4 (LSU) • May 11 (LSU) • May 18 (LSU) • May 25 (LSU) • June 2 (LSU) • Final (Virginia)

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