College Baseball
Poll -
Collegiate Baseball Newspaper
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release:
Monday (March 7, 2005)
TEXAS NO. 1 IN
COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWSPAPER
(www.baseballnews.com) POLL
TUCSON, Ariz. — The University of Texas has
been ranked No. 1 for the sixth straight Collegiate Baseball newspaper
NCAA Division I baseball poll.
The Longhorns (17-1) won two of three games at
Arizona over the past weekend. By starting the season with 16 straight wins
before their only loss of the season to the Wildcats, Texas recorded the fifth
best start to a season in school history.
Poll Notes:
A number of teams have been red-hot. Florida St.
(19-1) has now won 11 straight games while Vanderbilt is unbeaten at 10-0 and
ranked this week at No. 20 with its best start in school history. Teams in the
top 30 with only one loss, outside of Texas and Florida St., include Tulane
(13-1), South Carolina (12-1), Wichita St. (15-1), Arkansas (12-1), and
Louisiana-Lafayette (14-1). Another team which has been superb is Michigan
(5-2). The Wolverines, ranked 24th this week, had their best spring trip in a
century with wins over top 20 teams Georgia and North Carolina. Schools which
fell out of the top 30 this week include Clemson, Baylor and College of
Charleston.
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)
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NCAA Div. I Poll (As of March 7, 2005) |
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Rank School (Record) |
Points |
Previous |
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1. Texas (17-1) |
496 |
1 |
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2. Tulane (13-1) |
494 |
2 |
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3. Florida St. (19-1) |
490 |
8 |
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4. South Carolina (12-1) |
489 |
5 |
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5. Cal. St. Fullerton (11-2) |
488 |
6 |
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6. Louisiana St. (11-3) |
486 |
3 |
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7. Rice (12-3) |
483 |
7 |
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8. Georgia Tech. (11-2) |
480 |
13 |
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9. Wichita St. (15-1) |
475 |
15 |
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10. Arkansas (12-1) |
472 |
16 |
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11. North Carolina (9-3) |
471 |
4 |
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12. Georgia (7-3) |
470 |
9 |
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13. Florida (11-3) |
468 |
10 |
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14. Miami, Fla. (13-4) |
465 |
11 |
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15. Stanford (11-7) |
463 |
12 |
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16. Arizona (12-5) |
460 |
14 |
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17. Texas A&M (12-4) |
459 |
17 |
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18. Mississippi St. (6-0) |
457 |
19 |
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19. Louisiana-Lafayette (14-1) |
454 |
22 |
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20. Vanderbilt (10-0) |
452 |
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21. Mississippi (9-3) |
450 |
20 |
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22. Southern California (7-4) |
445 |
21 |
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23. Nebraska (8-2) |
442 |
18 |
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24. Michigan (5-2) |
440 |
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25. Coastal Carolina (10-2) |
438 |
23 |
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26. Central Florida (15-3) |
435 |
26 |
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27. Texas Tech. (14-2) |
431 |
27 |
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28. Oregon St. (11-2) |
430 |
28 |
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29. Oklahoma St. (11-5) |
426 |
29 |
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30. Winthrop (13-3) |
421 |
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"LOUISVILLE
SLUGGER'S" NATIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
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LHP Wade LeBlanc, Alabama:
LeBlanc registered 17 strikeouts in
a 4-0 win over McNeese St. in 7 2/3 innings. He fell one strikeout short of
the Alabama single-game record. LeBlanc only allowed one hit and walked two.
At one point in the game, LeBlanc struck out 11 of 14 McNeese St. hitters.
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RHP Tim Bascom, Central
Florida: Bascom struck out 17 batters to lead the Golden Knights to a 9-2
win over Siena. Bascom was one strikeout short of the school record. At one
point, he fanned 12 of 16 batters as he gave up no walks and six hits in the
game. |
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RHP Stuart Sutherland,
Dallas Baptist: Sutherland pitched a 9-inning no-hitter against U.C.
Irvine but amazingly didn't figure in the decision during a 1-0, 10-inning
loss to the Anteaters. He threw 99 pitches in nine innings, struck out five
and was only two batters away from a perfect game as he walked one and hit a
batter. |
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1B/RHP Micah Owings,
Tulane: Owings had a remarkable week at the plate and on the mound for
Tulane over four games. He belted four home runs with 7 RBI while posting a
victory with six shutout innings in a 24-2 win over Marist. He registered a
season-high eight strikeouts over six innings. |
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LHP Paul Coleman,
Pepperdine: Coleman struck out a school-record 16 batters while pitching a
complete game in leading Pepperdine to a 9-0 win over New Orleans. The
complete game was the first of Coleman's career as he allowed just two hits
and one walk in improving to 3-0 on the season. |
