UNITED STATES – The Virigina Cavaliers moved up three spots to take over the No. 1 ranking in this week’s National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Division I baseball poll. Reigning College world Series champion LSU, which top the poll last week, dropped to the sixth spot.

The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 13th year with its 2010 weekly surveys. Weekly polls will be circulated from Feb. 22-June 29 following the 64th annual NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb., and final CWS competition at historic Rosenblatt Stadium.

The poll voters come from 40 college baseball writers and related media persons from all across the nation. This week’s poll has representation by 10 different conferences among the 302 baseball-playing schools in the 2010 NCAA Division I ranks, and there have been 13 circuits in the surveys this season. Last year there were 17 different leagues (from 30
in NCAA Division I) among the Top 30 polls.

For more information or to join the NCBWA, please go to www.ncbwa.com.

Rank School Conference Overall Record Previous Rank
1 Virginia, Atlantic Coast 12-3 4
2 Arizona State, Pacific-10 15-0 3
3 Georgia Tech, ACC 13-1 5
4 Florida State, ACC 13-2 2
5 Texas, Big 12 13-3 6
6 LSU, Southeastern 13-2 1
7 TCU, Mountain West 12-2 8
8 Florida, SEC 11-3 7
9 Clemson, ACC 13-1 9
10 Louisville, Big East 14-1 10
11 Miami (Fla.), ACC 10-4 13
12 Coastal Carolina, Big South 15-2 12
13 UCLA, Pac-10 13-0 16
14 Arkansas, SEC 12-3 14
15 Oregon State, Pac-10 10-3 18
16 Oklahoma, Big 12 15-2 19
17 North Carolina, ACC 12-4 11
18 Vanderbilt, SEC 14-1 21
19 Rice, Conference USA 10-715
20 Kentucky, SEC 13-2 24
21 UC Irvine, Big West 9-6 22
22 Mississippi, SEC 12-4 20
23 Alabama, SEC 12-1 27
24 South Carolina, SEC 11-4 28
25 East Carolina, C-USA 8-6 17
26 Texas A&M, Big 12 13-3 29
27 Kansas, Big 12 11-4 NR
28 Stanford, Pac-10 7-4 25
29 Cal State Fullerton, Big West 7-7 26
30 Southeastern Louisiana, Southland 15-1 NR

Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Arizona (11-4), Canisius
(10-5), Connecticut (7-4), Duke (11-4), Florida Gulf Coast (10-4),
Houston (8-5), Kansas State (13-2), Liberty (11-2), NC State (11-4), New
Mexico (13-5), Ohio State (9-4), Oklahoma State (8-2), Oregon (12-6),
South Alabama (12-6), Southern Miss (10-4), The Citadel (11-3), VMI
(14-1), Washington State (10-3), Western Kentucky (12-4), Wichita State
(10-3).

Dropped Out: Ohio State (23), NC State (30).

By conference: SEC 8, ACC 6, Big 12 4, Pac-10 4, Big West 2, C-USA 2,
Big East 1, Big South 1, MWC 1, Southland 1.

Source: National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association

Photo courtesy of Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC)

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