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May 25, 2015
For Immediate Release
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Tigers take top ranking into NCAA Tournament

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 remains No. 1 nationally for the sixth consecutive week after its May 18-24 showing. There have been five teams to date in the top spot with Vanderbilt (preseason No. 1, March 30-April 6), Virginia (Feb. 16-23-March 2-9), TCU (March 16), LSU (March 23, April 20-27-May 4-25), and Texas A&M (April 13) previously have holding the top positions in the 2015 surveys. The poll voters come from 42 college baseball writers and related media persons from throughout the nation.

The five different teams at No. 1 in 2015 equal the total from the 2013 season, and there were six different top-ranked squads in 2014.

The eight No. 1 seeds in the ’15 NCAA Championships 64-team bracket are NCBWA No. 2 UCLA as top seed, No. 1 LSU as second seed, No. 7 Louisville as third seed, No. 3 Florida as fourth seed, No. 8 Miami (Fla.) in the fifth slot, No. 4 Illinois in sixth, No. 5 TCU at seventh, and No. 10 Missouri State as the eighth seeded squad in the bracket. All 16 NCAA Regional hosts are among the Top 30 this week.

The current survey has representation by 11 different conferences among the 302 baseball-playing schools in the 2015 NCAA Division I ranks. There have been 15 conferences with Top 30 rated teams in 2015. The rankings of 2012 had a NCBWA-poll record 22 different DI conferences and independents rated at least one week while 19 separate circuits had team rankings in '14.

2015 NCBWA DIVISION I POLL (MAY 25)
Rk.	School	Conference	Record	Week	Pvs.
1.	LSU	Southeastern	48-10	2-1	1
2.	UCLA	Pacific-12	42-14	2-2	3
3.	Florida	Southeastern	44-16	4-1	6
4.	Illinois	Big Ten	47-8-1	2-2	4
5.	TCU	Big 12	43-11	0-2	2
6.	Texas A&M	Southeastern	45-11	2-1	7
7.	Louisville	Atlantic Coast	43-16	1-2	5
8.	Miami	Atlantic Coast	44-14	2-1	9
9.	Vanderbilt	Southeastern	42-19	3-2	10
10.	Missouri State	Missouri Valley	45-10	4-0	14
11.	Oklahoma State	Big 12	37-18	3-1	11
12.	Florida State	Atlantic Coast	41-19	4-0	16
13.	UC Santa Barbara	Big West	40-15-1	1-2	8
14.	Dallas Baptist	Missouri Valley	43-13	2-2	12
15.	College of Charleston	Colonial	43-13	2-2	13
16.	Houston	American Athletic	42-18	3-1	18
17.	USC	Pacific-12	37-19	2-2	17
18.	Oregon State	Pacific-12	38-16-1	2-2	20
19.	Rice	Conference USA	35-20	0-2	15
20.	Florida Atlantic	Conference USA	40-17	2-2	19
21.	Arizona State	Pacific-12	34-21	2-2	22
22.	Arkansas	Southeastern	35-22	2-2	23
23.	Radford	Big South	43-14	4-0	28
24.	Iowa	Big Ten	39-16	1-2	21
25.	Coastal Carolina	Big South	38-19	3-1	27
26.	Oregon	Pacific-12	37-23	3-1	29
27.	California	Pacific-12	34-19	2-2	26
28.	East Carolina	American Athletic	40-20	4-0	-
29.	Cal State Fullerton	Big West	34-22	3-0	-
30.	Virginia	Atlantic Coast	34-22	1-3	24
Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Bradley (35-19), Columbia (31-15), Lipscomb (39-18), Louisiana-Lafayette (39-21), Maryland (39-21), Memphis (37-21), Mercer (35-21), Michigan (37-23), Morehead State (38-20), NC State (34-21), Nevada (41-15), North Florida (45-16), Notre Dame (36-21), Ohio (36-19), Oral Roberts (41-14), San Diego State (40-21), South Alabama (37-20), Southeastern Louisiana (42-17), St. John's (39-14), Stony Brook (34-14-1), Texas (30-25), Texas Tech (31-24), UNC Wilmington (39-16), VCU (37-22), Wright State (41-15).
Dropped out: Nevada (25), North Florida (30).
By conference: Pacific-12 6, Southeastern 5, Atlantic Coast 4, American 2, Big 12 2, Big South 2, Big Ten 2, Big West 2, Conference USA 2, Missouri Valley 2, Colonial 1.

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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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