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DALLAS (NCBWA) – The National Collegiate Baseball
Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA Division I polls
for the 24th year with its 2021 weekly surveys, and Arkansas is
No. 1 for the 2021-high 10th week and season-best seventh week in
a row this spring.
Southeastern Conference schools – Arkansas,
Florida, Ole Miss and Vanderbilt – also have topped each of the
NCBWA Top 30 polls in '21.
Several of these ranked schools
will attempt to top off their regular-season titles with conference
tourney championships this week, and 19 of the 20 schools in the
poll are among the finalists for NCAA Regional hosting bids announced
Sunday.
In the meantime, Tennessee replaced last week's No.
4 Texas Tech, while the Red Raiders dropped one place to No. 5.
Arizona jumped from No. 8 to 7, and Notre Dame climbed from No.
9 to 8. Ole Miss also made a move from No. 13 to 10.
Virtually
every team in the Top 30 will be in the running for one of the 64
NCAA Regional bids, denoted Monday, May 31, in an ESPN national
telecast. There are 30 automatic berths for conference winners,
and 34 at-large entries.
There have been 14 conferences (a
season-high 11 this week) represented in the first 15 standings
of 2021, and there were 15 different conferences included in the
COVID-19 abbreviated NCBWA polls in 2020.
The 2021 poll voters
come from among 33 college baseball writers and related media persons
from throughout the nation. The '21 season features 302 NCAA Division
I baseball-playing schools and for more information or to join the
NCBWA please go to ncbwa.com.
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2021 NCBWA DIVISION I POLL (MAY 24) |
| 1. |
Arkansas |
SEC |
42-10 |
1 |
| 2. |
Texas |
Big 12 |
40-13 |
2 |
| 3. |
Vanderbilt |
SEC |
39-13 |
3 |
| 4. |
Tennessee |
SEC |
42-14 |
5 |
| 5. |
Texas Tech |
Big 12 |
35-13 |
4 |
| 6. |
Mississippi State |
SEC |
40-13 |
6 |
| 7. |
Arizona |
Pac-12 |
38-14 |
8 |
| 8. |
Notre Dame |
ACC |
29-10 |
9 |
| 9. |
Oregon |
Pac-12 |
35-13 |
7 |
| 10. |
Ole Miss |
SEC |
38-17 |
13 |
| 11. |
East Carolina |
American Athletic |
38-13 |
10 |
| 12. |
Stanford |
Pac-12 |
31-13 |
14 |
| 13. |
Florida |
SEC |
35-19 |
12 |
| 14. |
TCU |
Big 12 |
36-16 |
11 |
| 15. |
UC Irvine |
Big West |
36-16 |
22 |
| 16. |
South Carolina |
SEC |
33-20 |
18 |
| 17. |
Charlotte |
Conference USA |
39-17 |
19 |
| 18. |
Gonzaga |
West Coast |
32-15 |
20 |
| 19. |
UCLA |
Pac-12 |
32-18 |
17 |
| 20. |
Old Dominion |
Conference USA |
38-14 |
24 |
| 21. |
Louisiana Tech |
Conference USA |
36-16 |
15 |
| 22. |
Southern Miss |
Conference USA |
35-17 |
21 |
| 23. |
Arizona State |
Pac-12 |
32-17 |
25 |
| 24. |
Florida State |
ACC |
29-21 |
16 |
| 25. |
N.C. State |
ACC |
28-15 |
27 |
| 26. |
Nebraska |
Big Ten |
29-11 |
RV |
| 27. |
Oklahoma State |
Big 12 |
32-16-1 |
28 |
| 28. |
Fairfield |
MAAC |
35-1 |
29 |
| 29. |
Miami |
ACC |
32-17 |
RV |
| 30. |
Dallas Baptist |
Missouri Valley |
33-15 |
RV |
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Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically):
Abilene Christian (34-19), Baylor (31-18), California
(28-24), California Baptist (37-15), Central Michigan
(35-16), Connecticut (30-16), Duke (28-20), Georgia
(30-23), Georgia Tech (28-21), Grand Canyon (36-19-1),
Jackson State (32-9), Kansas State (31-21), Liberty
(37-12), Louisville (27-21), LSU (34-21), Maryland
(26-15), Michigan (26-15), Nevada (21-18), Oregon
State (33-20), San Diego (30-11), San Diego State
(28-15), Southern Illinois (38-18), UC Santa Barbara
(35-18), VCU (34-14), Virginia (27-22). |
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Dropped out: Louisville (23), Michigan (26),
Oregon State (30), Baylor (30). |
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By conference: SEC 7, Pac-12 5, ACC 4, Big
12 4, Conference USA 4, American Athletic 1, Big
Ten 1, Big West 1, MAAC 1, Missouri Valley 1, West
Coast 1. |
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