College Baseball
Poll -
Collegiate Baseball Newspaper
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release:
Monday (April 11, 2005)
TULANE NO. 1 IN
COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWSPAPER
POLL
TUCSON, Ariz. — Tulane has been ranked No. 1
in Collegiate Baseball newspaper’s NCAA Division I
baseball poll after winning nine consecutive games.
The Green Wave’s 29-5 start in 2005 is the
best in school history as Tulane has swept six 3-game series
including a trio of games at North Carolina Charlotte over the past weekend. On
the season, the Green Wave is hitting .316 as a team with 41 homers and a team
on-base percentage of .410 after 34 games. The pitching staff, which has already
thrown five shutouts this season, has a better than 3:1
strikeout to walk ratio (293 strikeouts and 86 walks).
Cal. St. Fullerton, ranked No. 1 last week,
slipped to second after losing once to Loyola Marymount but
sweeping a 3-game series against Cal. St. Northridge.
Poll Notes:
South Carolina, winners of nine straight games,
swept a 3-game series at Louisiana St. over the past weekend. It marked the
third straight Southeastern Conference series LSU has lost as the Tigers fell to
19th this week. Arizona has now won six straight Pac-10 Conference road games
against UCLA and Washington St. The Wildcats (24-10) lead the Pac-10 with an 8-1
mark and are off to their best Pac-10 start in school history. Two other hot
teams include Oregon St. (9 wins in last 10 games and two wins at Stanford over
the past weekend) and Arkansas (winners of six in a row).
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 April 11, 2005) |
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Rank School (Record) |
Points |
Previous |
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1. Tulane (29-5) |
488 |
2 |
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2. Cal. St. Fullerton (23-8) |
486 |
1 |
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3. Texas (29-6) |
484 |
5 |
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4. Georgia Tech. (26-7) |
482 |
3 |
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5. South Carolina (28-5) |
480 |
10 |
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6. Arizona (24-10) |
478 |
11 |
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7. Florida (25-8) |
477 |
6 |
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8. North Carolina (27-6) |
475 |
7 |
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9. Florida St. (32-8) |
474 |
8 |
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10. Nebraska (27-6) |
472 |
4 |
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11. Oregon St. (26-5) |
469 |
15 |
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12. Miami, Fla. (27-9) |
468 |
14 |
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13. Missouri (26-6) |
465 |
19 |
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14. Long Beach St. (24-11) |
464 |
13 |
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15. Arkansas (27-6) |
461 |
17 |
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16. Baylor (22-12) |
457 |
21 |
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17. Alabama (24-10) |
455 |
22 |
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18. Stanford (19-11) |
453 |
12 |
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19. Louisiana St. (23-11) |
452 |
9 |
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20. Coll. of Charleston (26-5) |
450 |
18 |
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21. Louisiana-Lafayette (29-6) |
449 |
20 |
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22. Mississippi St. (20-8) |
447 |
24 |
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23. Auburn (22-13) |
445 |
16 |
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24. Tennessee (23-9) |
442 |
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25. Southern Calif. (21-9) |
439 |
29 |
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26. Central Florida (30-8) |
438 |
25 |
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27. Evansville (27-8) |
435 |
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28. Mississippi (22-10) |
433 |
23 |
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29. Pepperdine (22-10) |
430 |
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30. Creighton (26-7) |
426 |
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