College Baseball Poll - Collegiate
Baseball Newspaper
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: Monday (May
12, 2003)
FLORIDA ST. NO. 1 IN COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWSPAPER (www.baseballnews.com) POLL
TUCSON, Ariz. — Florida St. (44-8-1) has been
ranked No. 1 in Collegiate Baseball newspaper's NCAA Division I baseball poll for
the second straight week. The Seminoles, which swept a 3-game series from Maryland over
the weekend, have won five in a row and lead the Atlantic Coast Conference with a 16-5
record.
Florida St. has a glistening team ERA of 2.64 through 53
games and has nearly a 4:1 strikeout to walk ratio (446 strikeouts and 140 walks). The
Seminoles have stolen 83 bases while limiting opponents to only 33 in 62 attempts. FSU has
picked off 16 base runners. On offense, the team has banged out 124 doubles with six
players hitting 10 or more.
Rice, ranked No. 2 with a 43-8 overall record, beat
Nevada two of three games last weekend. It marked the 19th consecutive Western Athletic
Conference series the Owls have won dating back to the 2001 season.
Poll Notes: Three teams fell out of
the top 30 this week, including Clemson (2-4 last week), U.C. Riverside (1-3), and New
Mexico St. (0-3). Three new teams in the poll this week include South Carolina (35-17,
winners of 7 straight games), South Alabama (36-14, first place Sun Belt Conference with
15-6 record), and Texas Christian (33-19, second place in Conference USA with 20-7
record).
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 12, 2003) |
www.baseballnews.com |
| Rank School
(Record) |
Points |
Previous |
| 1. Florida
St. (44-8-1) |
494 |
1 |
| 2. Rice
(43-8) |
490 |
2 |
| 3.
Stanford (35-14) |
488 |
3 |
| 4. Arizona
St. (44-9) |
487 |
4 |
| 5. Long
Beach St. (36-14) |
485 |
5 |
| 6. Cal.
St. Fullerton (41-12) |
481 |
6 |
| 7. Texas
(37-14) |
475 |
7 |
| 8.
Louisiana St. (35-17-1) |
471 |
8 |
| 9. North
Carolina St. (38-12) |
470 |
9 |
| 10. Nebraska
(38-13) |
467 |
10 |
| 11. Georgia Tech.
(37-13) |
464 |
11 |
| 12. Texas A&M
(39-13) |
463 |
12 |
| 13. Florida
Atlantic (42-11) |
459 |
14 |
| 14. Richmond
(42-11) |
454 |
13 |
| 15. Miami, Fla.
(33-13-1) |
448 |
16 |
| 16. Auburn
(35-16) |
447 |
17 |
| 17. Arizona
(33-17) |
445 |
19 |
| 18. Mississippi
St. (34-15-1) |
442 |
18 |
| 19. Lamar (35-13) |
440 |
22 |
| 20. South
Carolina (35-17) |
438 |
— |
| 21. Baylor
(35-17) |
436 |
25 |
| 22. Rutgers
(30-16) |
434 |
29 |
| 23. Notre Dame
(37-14) |
432 |
20 |
| 24. Southern
Miss. (39-13) |
430 |
28 |
| 25. South Alabama
(36-14) |
427 |
— |
| 26. Pepperdine
(34-18) |
426 |
27 |
| 27. Minnesota
(34-17) |
423 |
24 |
| 28. Western
Carolina (35-15) |
420 |
26 |
| 29. Texas
Christian (33-19) |
418 |
— |
| 30. Nevada-Las
Vegas (39-14) |
416 |
30 |
"LOUISVILLE SLUGGER'S"
NATIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
 | 3B Jay Iannoni, Vermont: Iannoni
belted 4 home runs during a 4-game series against Binghamton. He had two hits in each
game, including a home run in four straight contests. He accumulated 20 total bases along
with a 1.429 slugging percentage as he went 8-for-14 with 7 runs scored and 6 RBI. He also
had two hits in each game. Two of his homers were game winners.
|
| RHP Jered Weaver, Long Beach St.:
Weaver struck out a career-tying 13 over 7 1/3 innings against U.C. Riverside. He only
walked one. He retired 24 of 27 batters at one stage of the game until he was removed
after a leadoff single in the eighth inning.
|
| OF Adam Boeve, Northern Iowa: Boeve had a
remarkable week as he belted 3 homers, 3 doubles, a triple and knocked in 10 runs for a
1.471 slugging percentage. He also was 4-for-4 in stolen bases as he was 11-for-17 at the
plate. He upped his batting average from .341 to .370 after the memorable week. |
