College Baseball Poll - Collegiate
Baseball Newspaper
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: Monday (May
6, 2002)
CLEMSON NO. 1 IN COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWSPAPER (www.baseballnews.com) POLL
TUCSON, Ariz. — For the seventh straight week,
Clemson (39-7) has been ranked No. 1 in Collegiate Baseball newspaper's NCAA
Division I baseball poll.
The Tigers split two games on the road against No. 11
Georgia Tech. and barely held on to the No. 1 position by a single point. No. 2 Rice
(39-8) was idle last week because of final exams. But the Owls had won 11 straight and 27
of their last 31 games.
POLL NOTES: Several other teams are
also on a roll. Florida St. has won nine in a row, Cal. St. Northridge 10 straight and San
Jose St. six consecutive contests. Two teams fell out of the top 30 this week in Long
Beach St. (2-2 last week and losses in 8 of last 11 games), and East Carolina (2-3 last
week).
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)
Collegiate Baseball Newspaper's |
NCAA Div. I Poll (As of May 6, 2002) |
www.baseballnews.com |
| Rank School
(Record) |
Points |
Previous |
| 1. Clemson
(39-7) |
493 |
1 |
| 2. Rice
(39-8) |
492 |
2 |
| 3. Wake
Forest (38-8) |
489 |
6 |
| 4. Alabama
(40-9) |
487 |
3 |
| 5. South
Carolina (37-11) |
486 |
4 |
| 6. North
Carolina (35-15) |
482 |
7 |
| 7. Florida
St. (43-12) |
480 |
8 |
| 8. Texas
(39-13) |
476 |
5 |
| 9.
Stanford (32-13) |
472 |
11 |
| 10. Florida
(35-13) |
469 |
12 |
| 11. Georgia Tech.
(37-10) |
467 |
13 |
| 12. Mississippi
(35-13) |
463 |
9 |
| 13. Houston
(34-14) |
460 |
10 |
| 14. Wichita St.
(36-11) |
459 |
14 |
| 15. Nebraska
(32-17) |
458 |
15 |
| 16. Cal. St.
Northridge (35-13) |
453 |
17 |
| 17. Baylor
(34-17) |
444 |
18 |
| 18. Southern
Calif. (28-18) |
439 |
16 |
| 19. Notre Dame
(34-13) |
434 |
19 |
| 20. South Alabama
(33-13) |
432 |
20 |
| 21. Richmond
(41-8) |
431 |
21 |
| 22. Texas Tech.
(34-16) |
427 |
22 |
| 23. Texas A&M
(32-18) |
424 |
23 |
| 24. Cal. St.
Fullerton (31-16) |
422 |
24 |
| 25. Louisiana St.
(33-16) |
419 |
28 |
| 26. San Jose St.
(39-13) |
416 |
29 |
| 27. James Madison
(36-10) |
414 |
27 |
| 28. Oklahoma St.
(33-15) |
411 |
— |
| 29. Kent St.
(30-13) |
409 |
— |
| 30. Florida
Atlantic (37-11) |
405 |
25 |
"LOUISVILLE SLUGGER'S"
NATIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
 | LHP Rich Hill, Michigan: Hill
struck out 17 batters in nine innings during the past week and also had four assists
(pitcher to first base defensive plays with two being bunts) as he accounted for 21 of 27
outs. He had a 2-inning stint against Notre Dame and fanned all six batters he faced. Then
later in the week against Ohio St., he fanned 11 batters in seven innings in a 5-4
Wolverine victory.
|
| LHP Keith Ramsey, Florida: Ramsey
hurled a 9-inning one-hitter at Mississippi St. in a 4-0 win. After pitching out of a
bases loaded jam in the first inning, Ramsey registered 10 consecutive outs from the end
of the first inning through the fourth. After the first inning, he allowed just two
baserunners until the ninth which were both walks. The two were erased with double plays.
|
| SS Khalil Greene, Clemson: Greene only played in
two games last week against 11th ranked Georgia Tech. But he was simply sensational as he
was 7-for-8 at the plate with 2 homers, 1 double and 7 RBI. |
