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College Baseball Poll - Collegiate Baseball Newspaper PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Monday (May 30, 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 for the eighth straight week. The Green Wave (50-9) has won 30 of their last 34 games and were 3-0 last week as Tulane captured a share of the Conference USA tournament title after rain washed out the championship game against Texas Christian. On offense, Tulane has belted 137 doubles and 74 homers in 59 games. The pitching staff, which sports a 3.79 team ERA, has fanned 519 batters while walking only 156 for a better than 3:1 strikeout to walk ratio. Poll Notes: Several teams have been red hot lately. The hottest is undoubtedly Georgia Tech. which raced through the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament with a four straight wins. The Yellow Jackets also won the regular season ACC title. Nebraska, which has won 10 of its last 11 games, rebounded from a first round loss in the Big 12 Conference tournament to win five straight for the championship. The title game saw the Cornhuskers post a 1-0 victory over the Baylor Bears. Baylor, which posted 3-1 record last week in finishing second at the Big 12 tournament, knocked off Texas for the fourth straight time this season. The Bears were ranked sixth this week while the Longhorns fell to seventh. Rice won five consecutive games to close out its regular season schedule. The only team to fall out of the top 30 this week was Creighton which posted a 4-2 record as Mississippi St. jumped into the No. 30 slot after winning the Southeastern Conference tournament with four consecutive victories. 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)
"LOUISVILLE SLUGGER'S" NATIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
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