College Baseball Poll - Collegiate
Baseball Newspaper
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: Monday (May
24, 1999)
MIAMI (FLA.) NO. 1 IN COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWSPAPER (www.baseballnews.com) POLL
TUCSON, Ariz. — Miami, Fla. has been ranked No. 1
in the latest Collegiate Baseball newspaper poll. It marks the fifth time this
season the Hurricanes (41-13) have been on top of the poll. During the past weekend, Miami
won two of three at Long Beach St.
Nebraska (41-16) won its first baseball championship
(post or regular season) since the 1950 Big Seven Conference tournament as the Huskers
downed Baylor, 4-3 Sunday in the finals of the Big 12 Conference baseball tournament.
Nebraska jumped from 24th to 18th this week. The Huskers have won 9 straight games.
POLL NOTES: Several other teams have been red
hot. Wake Forest won the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament in impressive style last
weekend. The Demon Deacons have now won 13 straight games heading into post-season play.
Other teams on a roll include Wichita State (7 straight wins), Rice (4-0 during Western
Athletic Conference tournament) and Alabama (4-0 during Southeastern Conference
tournament).
The Collegiate Baseball Newspaper poll
is the oldest college baseball poll. Its birth took place during the 1957 college baseball
season.
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Collegiate Baseball Newspaper's |
NCAA Div. I Poll (As of May 24, 1999) |
www.baseballnews.com |
| Rank School
(Record) |
Points |
Previous |
| 1. Miami,
Fla. (41-13) |
481 |
1 |
| 2. Rice
(52-11) |
479 |
3 |
| 3. Florida
St. (48-12) |
477 |
2 |
| 4. Cal.
St. Fullerton (44-11) |
474 |
4 |
| 5.
Stanford (43-13) |
473 |
5 |
| 6. Texas
A&M (46-14) |
469 |
6 |
| 7. Wichita
St. (57-12) |
468 |
7 |
| 8.
Arkansas (41-21) |
463 |
8 |
| 9. Alabama
(46-14) |
462 |
10 |
| 10. Baylor
(46-13) |
460 |
9 |
| 11. Wake Forest
(44-13) |
457 |
15 |
| 12. Pepperdine
(43-14) |
449 |
11 |
| 13. Ohio St.
(46-12) |
448 |
12 |
| 14. Southern
Calif. (33-23) |
445 |
14 |
| 15. Florida
Atlantic (52-7) |
439 |
13 |
| 16. Clemson
(37-24) |
435 |
19 |
| 17. Louisiana St.
(37-21-1) |
430 |
16 |
| 18. Nebraska
(41-16) |
426 |
24 |
| 19. Tulane
(45-15) |
420 |
— |
| 20. Oklahoma St.
(40-17) |
418 |
17 |
| 21. North
Carolina (40-16) |
415 |
20 |
| 22. Texas Tech.
(40-15) |
413 |
18 |
| 23. Auburn
(43-16) |
411 |
21 |
| 24. Houston
(38-22) |
410 |
23 |
| 25. Arizona
(33-21) |
408 |
25 |
| 26. Oral Roberts
(46-13) |
406 |
26 |
| 27. South Alabama
(38-18) |
403 |
22 |
| 28. East Carolina
(44-14) |
400 |
— |
| 29. Long Beach
St. (33-23) |
398 |
28 |
| 30. Georgia Tech.
(38-20) |
396 |
27 |
"LOUISVILLE SLUGGER'S"
NATIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
 | LHP Rodney Hancock, The Citadel: For
the second consecutive week, Hancock has been named a Louisville Slugger National Player
of The Week. During the Southern Conference Tournament over the past weekend, Hancock
struck out a tournament and school-record 20 batters in a 3-0, complete-game 2-hitter over
Furman. If that wasn't enough, he hit .444 with a home run and 5 RBI in the final three
games to lead the Bulldogs to the Southern Conference title. Five days prior to striking
out 20 Paladins, he no-hit Furman in a 24-0 win. He has now pitched 22 1/3 consecutive
scoreless innings.
|
| RHP Chad Wiles, Nebraska: Wiles
threw a 1-hitter against hard-hitting Oklahoma State in a 5-0 victory during the Big 12
Tournament. He struck out 4 batters, walked 4 and only faced 33 batters in the 9-inning
contest. In the championship game, he pitched two additional innings without allowing a
run and earned his first career save as he struck out three. He has only allowed one hit
in his last 11 innings of work and no runs in his last 13 1/3 innings.
|
| LHP Phil Devey, Southwestern
Louisiana: Devey turned in one of the greatest pitching performances in school history
as he struck out 17 batters in a 9-inning, 10-0 win against Arkansas-Little Rock. He never
struck out the side, but he fanned at least two batters in each of the first seven innings
as well as the ninth. His performance was a new career high and tied a Sun Belt Conference
overall single-game record. He retired the final 10 batters to end the game.
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