Feb. 25, 2020
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Panthers earn 15 of 25 first-place votes
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CHAPMAN TOPS NCBWA/D3BASEBALL.COM DIVISION III POLL

DALLAS (NCBWA) – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA polls with the NCBWA/D3baseball.com Division III Poll. Weekly polls continue through the NCAA Division III Championship.

The D3baseball.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of 25 coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country, and is published weekly.

Rk. School [1st place] Location Record Pts. Pvs.
1. Chapman [15] Orange, Calif. 9-1 607 1
2. Trinity [9] San Antonio, Texas 7-0 589 3
3. Birmingham-Southern [1] Birmingham, Ala. 7-1 542 4
4. Washington U. St. Louis, Mo. 3-0 481 8
5. Southern Maine Gorham, Maine 0-0 433 6
6. Babson Babson Park, Mass. 0-0 419 9
7. Cortland Cortland, N.Y. 4-2 418 7
8. Heidelberg Tiffin, Ohio 1-1 396 5
9. Salisbury Salisbury, Md. 4-1 392 13
10. Wooster Wooster, Ohio 0-0 366 10
11. Webster St. Louis, Mo. 1-2 361 2
12. Denison Granville, Ohio 0-0 309 12
13. Kean Union, N.J. 4-2 243 11
14. UMass-Boston Boston, Mass. 0-0 238 16
15. Cal Lutheran Thousand Oaks, Calif. 9-0-1 229 --
16. UW-Whitewater Whitewater, Wis. 2-1 227 17
17. Randolph-Macon Ashland, Va. 7-1 185 --
18. North Central Naperville, Ill. 3-0 182 21
19. St. John Fisher Pittsford, N.Y. 2-0 158 --
20. Johns Hopkins Baltimore, Md. 1-2 151 14
21. Concordia River Forest, Ill. 0-0 132 19
22. Shenandoah Winchester, Va. 6-0 95 --
23. Texas Lutheran Seguin, Texas 4-2 87 22
24. Rhodes Memphis, Tenn. 7-2 85 --
25. Washington and Jefferson Washington, Pa. 0-0 83 20
Also receiving votes: Rowan 81, Aurora 74, Concordia (Texas) 72, Wheaton (Mass.) 68, Trinity (Conn.) 55, Adrian 48, Coe 45, Christopher Newport 33, TCNJ 24, St. Joseph's (Maine) 22, Pfeiffer 20, Ramapo 19, LaGrange 17, Emory 15, Huntingdon 12, George Fox 10, La Roche 10, Piedmont 8, Buena Vista 6, UW-La Crosse 6, Penn State-Harrisburg 5, Misericordia 4, Roanoke 4, Baldwin Wallace 3, Benedictine 3, Farmingdale State 3, Earlham 2, Marietta 2, St. John's 2, Texas-Dallas 2, Tufts 2, Anna Maria 1, Case Western Reserve 1, MIT 1, University of the Ozarks 1, Spalding 1.
Dropped out: No. 15 Adrian, No. 18 Coe, No. 23, Concordia (Texas), No. 24 Rowan, No. 25 Christopher Newport.

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2020 NCBWA Division III Polls (No. 1 Team):
Preseason (Chapman)
Feb. 25 (Chapman)
March 3 (Washington U.)
March 10 (Cal Lutheran)
March 17 (Cal Lutheran)