College Baseball
Poll -
Collegiate Baseball Newspaper
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release:
Monday (March 8, 2004)
LSU NO. 1 IN
COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWSPAPER
(www.baseballnews.com) POLL
TUCSON, Ariz. — Louisiana State University is
ranked No. 1 for the third straight week in Collegiate Baseball
newspaper's NCAA Division I baseball poll.
The Tigers (12-2) have won 10 of their last 11
games. During the past week, LSU beat Tulane and took two of three from Houston.
The Tigers' 12-2 mark through 14 games is LSU's best since the 2001 club also
posted a 12-2 record through its first 14 contests.
Poll Notes:
South Carolina is 12-0 on the season. The
Gamecocks have hit a home run in all 12 games (29 on the season) and are hitting
.374 as a team. The South Carolina pitching staff features a staff ERA of 1.85
with 147 strikeouts and only 16 walks in 107 innings. Other red-hot teams
include: Florida, Mississippi and Southern Mississippi (all with 11 consecutive
wins), Arizona State and Auburn (9 wins in a row), Texas (8 straight victories)
and Miami, Fla. and Mississippi St. (7 consecutive wins). Five teams dropped out
of the poll this week in Oregon St., Arizona, Cal. St. Fullerton, Washington and
Clemson.
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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NCAA Div. I Poll (As of March 8, 2004) |
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Rank School (Record) |
Points |
Previous |
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1. Louisiana St. (12-2) |
495 |
1 |
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2. Stanford (15-3) |
494 |
2 |
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3. Texas (19-2) |
492 |
3 |
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4. South Carolina (12-0) |
490 |
5 |
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5. Arizona St. (15-2) |
489 |
6 |
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6. Rice (11-3) |
487 |
4 |
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7. Miami, Fla. (11-3) |
485 |
8 |
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8. Notre Dame (7-1) |
483 |
7 |
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9. Wichita St. (3-0) |
478 |
9 |
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10. Florida Atlantic (16-1) |
473 |
11 |
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11. Long Beach St. (11-4) |
470 |
10 |
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12. Auburn (13-1) |
468 |
14 |
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13. Texas A&M (14-2) |
466 |
12 |
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14. Florida (15-3) |
463 |
19 |
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15. Mississippi (11-0) |
460 |
21 |
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16. Tulane (10-3) |
458 |
13 |
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17. Mississippi St. (7-0) |
454 |
24 |
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18. U.C. Irvine (12-3-1) |
451 |
25 |
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19. Florida St. (11-5) |
449 |
23 |
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20. Nebraska (6-3) |
447 |
15 |
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21. Oklahoma (10-3) |
445 |
16 |
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22. Georgia Tech. (8-5) |
443 |
17 |
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23. North Carolina St. (10-2) |
438 |
22 |
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24. East Carolina (12-3) |
435 |
18 |
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25. North Carolina (8-3) |
432 |
30 |
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26. Tennessee (11-2) |
430 |
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27. Southern Miss. (11-1) |
428 |
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28. N.C. Greensboro (10-1) |
425 |
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29. Vanderbilt (10-1) |
422 |
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30. Virginia (13-1) |
419 |
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"LOUISVILLE
SLUGGER'S" NATIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
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RHP Billy Buckner, South
Carolina: Buckner improved to 3-0
when he struck out a career-high 16 batters in 7 2/3 innings in leading the
Gamecocks to a 5-2 win over Clemson. Buckner, who allowed only one walk and
three hits, was one strikeout short of the school record. |
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1B Stephen Head,
Mississippi: Head set a school
record when he reached base safely in 16 consecutive plate appearances (nine
hits, seven walks). He finished the week with 4 home runs, 11 RBIs and 11 runs
scored in five contests as he hit .600 in five games. Head is batting.500 on
the season and leads the team with 7 homers and 28 RBIs. |
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RHP Jim Ripley, Kansas St.:
Ripley took a no-hitter into the
seventh inning against Alabama and struck out a career-high 10 batters in a
2-1 win over the Crimson Tide. Ripley retired 18 of the first 19 batters he
faced, including 17 in a row. A hit batsman was the lone blemish until a
single broke up the no-hit bid in the seventh. He finished with 7 innings
pitched and gave up one run on one hit while walking just one batter. |
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RHP Jered Weaver, Long Beach
St.: Weaver struck out the first 10
Brigham Young batters he faced and retired the first 17 in a row over 5 2/3
perfect innings. It was broken up by a 20-foot popup that bounced foul, then
fair. He eventually went 7 2/3 innings and struck out a career-high 15 batters
with just one walk. On the season, Weaver is 5-0 with a 1.01 ERA, 55
strikeouts and only 4 walks in 35 2/3 innings. |
