College Baseball Poll - Collegiate
Baseball Newspaper
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: Monday
(April 15, 2002)
CLEMSON NO. 1 IN COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWSPAPER (www.baseballnews.com) POLL
TUCSON, Ariz. — For the fourth straight week,
Clemson (30-4) has been ranked No. 1 in Collegiate Baseball newspaper's NCAA
Division I baseball poll.
Despite losing twice last week (Georgia, 5-4 and North
Carolina, 12-4), the Tigers earned one more point than Alabama and two more points than
Stanford. Clemson won three times last week with one victory over Georgia and two more
over North Carolina. Both teams have been ranked this season. Currently North Carolina is
ranked 12th in the nation.
The Tigers are hitting .336 as a team with 59 homers in
34 contests. Clemson's fielding percentage is ranked among the nation's best at .974, and
the pitching staff has a 3.67 ERA with a better than 2:1 strikeout to walk ratio (252
strikeouts, 105 walks).
POLL NOTES: Several other teams are
also on a roll. Florida Atlantic has the longest winning streak in the nation with 25
consecutive wins. It is the longest winning streak for Florida Atlantic since tying the
NCAA record in 1999 with 34 straight wins. Baylor has won six straight while Louisiana St.
has won five consecutive contests. Oklahoma (1-3 last week), Ohio St. (3-2), Southern
Mississippi (3-2) and East Carolina (3-2) all fell out of the poll this week.
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 April 15, 2002) |
www.baseballnews.com |
| Rank School
(Record) |
Points |
Previous |
| 1. Clemson
(30-4) |
492 |
1 |
| 2. Alabama
(32-5) |
491 |
3 |
| 3.
Stanford (25-8) |
490 |
2 |
| 4. Rice
(31-8) |
486 |
4 |
| 5. Wake
Forest (28-6) |
484 |
6 |
| 6. Georgia
Tech. (30-5) |
482 |
5 |
| 7. South
Carolina (28-8) |
479 |
7 |
| 8. Wichita
St. (24-8) |
474 |
8 |
| 9.
Mississippi (29-8) |
471 |
9 |
| 10. Houston
(27-10) |
464 |
11 |
| 11. Florida
(26-12) |
456 |
12 |
| 12. North
Carolina (25-13) |
453 |
13 |
| 13. Florida St.
(34-11) |
452 |
14 |
| 14. Texas (31-10) |
450 |
15 |
| 15. Oklahoma St.
(25-9) |
448 |
17 |
| 16. Texas A&M
(28-13) |
445 |
16 |
| 17. Baylor
(27-12) |
444 |
18 |
| 18. Florida
Atlantic (32-6) |
442 |
20 |
| 19. Cal. St.
Fullerton (23-12) |
440 |
19 |
| 20. Nebraska
(23-13) |
437 |
10 |
| 21. Long Beach
St. (23-10) |
436 |
21 |
| 22. Arizona St.
(24-13) |
433 |
22 |
| 23. Richmond
(32-4) |
430 |
23 |
| 24. Stetson
(31-5) |
428 |
26 |
| 25. S.W. Missouri
St. (24-6) |
425 |
27 |
| 26. James Madison
(30-8) |
422 |
30 |
| 27. Louisiana St.
(24-13) |
419 |
— |
| 28. San Diego St.
(29-12) |
416 |
— |
| 29. South Alabama
(23-11) |
413 |
— |
| 30. San Jose St.
(29-12) |
409 |
— |
"LOUISVILLE SLUGGER'S"
NATIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
 | C/DH/1B Ben Stanley,
Wisconsin-Oshkosh: Stanley had a mammoth week as he belted seven home runs over six
games. What makes the achievement even more remarkable is that he only had seven career
home runs in his previous three years at the school. In those six games, he went 16-for-26
at the plate with seven homers, one double, 14 RBI, 10 runs scored and 4 walks.
|
| OF Kevin White, Presbyterian
College: White cracked six home runs over five games and knocked in 12 runs as he went
8-for-19 at the plate. He also scored nine runs.
|
| RHP Brad Sullivan, Houston: Sullivan
set a Houston single-game record with 16 strikeouts in only 7 innings against Memphis. He
scattered three hits and allowed only two balls out of the infield and none after the
fourth inning. He struck out every Memphis starter at least once in the game.
|
| LHP Shaun Reed, Eastern Nazarene: Reed struck out
a school record 19 batters in a win over Anna Maria College. He fanned the first five
hitters of the game and recorded strikeouts for the last seven outs of the game. |
