DALLAS (NCBWA) – The National Collegiate
Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of
NCAA Division I polls for the 21st year with its 2018 weekly surveys
and for the second-straight week of the regular season, the top
three remain unchanged, with Florida at No. 1, Oregon State at No.
2 and Texas Tech at No. 3.
Coach Kevin O'Sullivan's Florida Gators were
the preseason favorite and are No. 1 for the second-straight week
of the regular season after going 4-1 last week, including taking
two-of-three from in-state rival Miami (Fla.).
Oregon State, which was tops nationally for most of the 2017
season and ended with the most victories (56) in DI baseball, remained
ranked No. 2 for the third-straight week after going 5-0 last week,
including going undefeated in the Big 10-Pac-12 Spring Training
College Baseball Challenge.
Rounding out the top three is Texas Tech, who is now 8-0 on the
season after going 4-0 last week.
Spots four and five went through some shuffling this week, as
Florida State jumped up to No. 4 from No. 5, and Stanford joined
the top five after going 5-0 last week, including a four-game sweep
of Rice.
Joining the top 10 this week was Vanderbilt, who comes in at
No. 10 after going an impressive 5-0 last week.
The 2018 poll voters come from among 35 college baseball writers
and related media persons from throughout the nation. After a preseason
Top 35 listing, the remainder of the polls will feature a national
Top 30 beginning with the Feb. 19 NCBWA DI survey.
The current survey has representation by 12 different conferences
among the 299 baseball-playing schools in the 2018 NCAA Division
I ranks. The rankings of 2017 had 13 different DI conferences rated
at least one week. For more information or to join the NCBWA, please
go to ncbwa.com.
NCBWA DIVISION I POLL (FEB. 26) |
Rk. |
School |
Conference |
Record |
Pvs. |
1. |
Florida |
SEC |
7-1 |
1 |
2. |
Oregon State |
Pac-12 |
8-0 |
2 |
3. |
Texas Tech |
Big 12 |
7-0 |
3 |
4. |
Florida State |
ACC |
7-0 |
5 |
5. |
Stanford |
Pac-12 |
8-0 |
9 |
6. |
Kentucky |
SEC |
7-1 |
6 |
7. |
TCU |
Big 12 |
4-2 |
7 |
8. |
Texas A&M |
SEC |
7-0 |
10 |
9. |
Arkansas |
SEC |
5-2 |
4 |
10. |
Vanderbilt |
SEC |
7-1 |
11 |
11. |
UCLA |
Pac-12 |
6-1 |
12 |
12. |
Ole Miss |
SEC |
7-0 |
14 |
13. |
Louisville |
ACC |
7-0 |
13 |
14. |
Clemson |
ACC |
7-0 |
16 |
15. |
South Alabama |
Sun Belt |
7-1 |
20 |
16. |
Indiana |
Big Ten |
6-1 |
23 |
17. |
Southern Miss |
Conference USA |
5-2 |
15 |
18. |
LSU |
SEC |
4-3 |
21 |
19. |
North Carolina |
ACC |
3-5 |
8 |
20. |
Virginia |
ACC |
4-3 |
17 |
21. |
Texas |
Big 12 |
4-3 |
19 |
22. |
Houston |
American Athletic |
4-2 |
24 |
23. |
St. John's |
Big East |
7-0 |
27 |
24. |
East Carolina |
American Athletic |
6-1 |
RV |
25. |
Auburn |
SEC |
8-0 |
RV |
26. |
N.C. State |
ACC |
7-1 |
29 |
27. |
Mississippi State |
SEC |
3-4 |
25 |
28. |
Dallas Baptist |
Missouri Valley |
3-3 |
18 |
29. |
Alabama |
SEC |
7-0 |
RV |
30. |
San Diego |
West Coast |
7-2 |
RV |
Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically):
Florida Atlantic (6-1), Florida Gulf Coast University
(6-1), Fresno State (7-2), Georgia (6-1), Kent State
(4-2), Louisiana (5-3), Miami (FL) (3-4), Minnesota
(5-2), Missouri State (4-2), Nebraska (5-3), Notre
Dame (4-3), Oklahoma (4-4), Oklahoma State (4-1),
Oregon (4-2), Purdue (6-1), Saint Mary's College
(4-3), Sam Houston State (5-1), San Diego State
(5-2), South Carolina (6-2), Stetson (6-1), UC Irvine
(5-2), UCF (4-3), USC (6-1), VMI (5-2), Wichita
State (6-0). |
Dropped out: Cal State Fullerton (22), Arizona
(26), Miami (Fla.) (28), Oregon (30). |
By conference: SEC 10, ACC 6, Big 12 3, Pac-12
3, American Athletic 2, Big East 1, Big Ten 1, Conference
USA 1, Missouri Valley 1, Sun Belt 1, West Coast
1. |
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