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College Baseball Poll - Collegiate Baseball Newspaper PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Monday (Feb. 12, 2001) RICE NO. 1 IN COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWSPAPER (www.baseballnews.com) POLL TUCSON, Ariz. — Rice University has been ranked No. 1 in the latest Collegiate Baseball newspaper poll. The Owls (7-0) have been superb in the early going of the season with wins over previously No. 1 ranked Georgia Tech., 5-4, another victory over previously No. 4 ranked Nebraska, 16-2 as well as wins over 18th ranked Baylor, Texas and Texas Tech. It is a brutal schedule to kick off the season for Rice, but the Owls are off to their best start since they opened 14-0 in 1993. The Rice pitching staff has a remarkable 1.27 ERA with four pitchers having 0.00 ERAs. The staff has struck out 67 batters in 64 innings. Georgia Tech. (2-1), ranked No. 1 last week, slipped to No. 2 by only one point in the power index ratings. POLL NOTES: Several ball clubs outside of Rice have been red hot. Arizona State, which lost its first game of the season to Texas-Arlington, has since won eight straight. South Carolina is 6-0 to start the year as is Auburn and Pepperdine. Tulane has jumped out of the gates with a 7-0 record and made the top 30 this week at the No. 27 position. The only team to drop out of the poll this week was Oklahoma (2-4) which dropped three straight at Alabama. The Collegiate Baseball Newspaper poll is the oldest college baseball poll. Its birth took place during the 1957 college baseball season. (Top 30 Agate Follows)
"LOUISVILLE SLUGGER'S" NATIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
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