College Baseball
Poll -
Collegiate Baseball Newspaper
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release:
Monday (May 28, 2012)
LOUISIANA ST. NO. 1 IN
COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWSPAPER POLL
TUCSON, Ariz. — Louisiana St. (43-16)
has been ranked No. 1 in the latest Collegiate Baseball newspaper NCAA
Division I baseball poll.
In one of the craziest weeks in poll history,
none of the top six teams from last week escaped with a winning record as each
team posted at least two losses.
Oregon, previously ranked No. 1 after winning
14 of its previous 15 games, was swept in a 3-game series at Oregon St. and
slipped to 10th this week. The Ducks finished third in the Pac-12 Conference
with a 19-11 record after entering last week at the top of the league with a one
game lead.
LSU moved up to No. 1 despite posting a 1-2
record in the Southeastern Conference tournament. The Tigers won the regular
season SEC title with a 19-11 record.
Poll Notes:
Several teams have been red-hot. Kent St. has won
17 in a row, New Mexico nine straight while Oregon St. has captured seven of its
last eight. Four teams fell out of the top 30 this week in Texas (0-2 last
week), Louisville (1-2), Texas Christian (1-2) and Utah Valley (4-0).
New to the poll this week is New Mexico
(captured the Mountain West Tournament with a 4-0 record), Vanderbilt (one of
the hottest teams in the nation with nine wins in its last 10 games), St. John's
(won the Big East Tournament with four straight wins) and Georgia Tech. (36-24,
won ACC Tournament as the eighth seed).
Three teams barely missed being ranked in Utah
Valley (47-12, won 40 of last 41 games), Stony Brook (46-11, won 22 of its last
23), and Pepperdine (34-21, won West Coast Conference title after beating San
Diego two of three at home).
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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Collegiate
Baseball Newspaper's |
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NCAA Div. I Poll (As of May 28,
2012) |
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www.baseballnews.com |
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Rank School (Record) |
Points |
Previous |
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1. Louisiana St. (43-16) |
495 |
2 |
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2. South Carolina
(40-17) |
493 |
3 |
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3. Florida (42-18) |
490 |
4 |
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4. Florida St. (43-15) |
489 |
5 |
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5. Baylor (44-14) |
487 |
6 |
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6. North Carolina
(44-14) |
486 |
7 |
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7. UCLA (42-14) |
484 |
10 |
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8. Arizona (38-17) |
483 |
8 |
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9. Rice (41-16) |
481 |
9 |
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10. Oregon (42-17) |
479 |
1 |
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11. Texas A&M (42-16) |
476 |
11 |
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12. Stanford (38-16) |
474 |
12 |
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13. Kentucky (43-16) |
473 |
13 |
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14. Cal. St. Fullerton
(35-19) |
471 |
15 |
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15. N.C. State (39-17) |
469 |
16 |
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16. Purdue (44-12) |
467 |
18 |
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17. Mississippi St.
(39-22) |
464 |
21 |
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18. Oregon St. (38-18) |
461 |
28 |
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19. Arkansas (39-19) |
459 |
14 |
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20. Arizona St. (36-20) |
458 |
17 |
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21. Central Florida
(43-15) |
456 |
19 |
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22. Miami, Fla. (36-21) |
454 |
23 |
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23. Oklahoma (38-22) |
451 |
25 |
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24. Virginia (38-17-1) |
448 |
24 |
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25. Kent St. (41-17) |
446 |
27 |
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26. New Mexico (36-22) |
445 |
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27. San Diego (40-15) |
443 |
20 |
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28. Vanderbilt (33-26) |
440 |
— |
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29. St. John's (37-21) |
438 |
— |
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30. Georgia Tech.
(36-24) |
437 |
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"LOUISVILLE
SLUGGER'S" NATIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
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1B/LHP
Jake Davies, Georgia Tech.: Davies had a monster 4-game
stretch at the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament as he went 7-for-16 with
4 homers, one double, 7 runs scored, 11 RBI (2 shy of the ACC Tournament
record), 1.250 slugging percentage and walked four times. In addition to his
offensive numbers, he also pitched a career-long six innings as he allowed
two hits and one run during a 5-1 win over Clemson that clinched a spot in
the ACC Tournament championship game. |
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RHP Taylor Sewitt,
Manhattan: Sewitt pitched 22 scoreless innings over three straight
days at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Tournament to guide the
Jaspers to the league title. He struck out 20 batters, allowed 10 hits and
won three games as he threw 296 total pitches. He began with a nine inning
complete game, 1-0 victory over Fairfield on Friday with 12 strikeouts. The
next day, he came out of the bullpen and held Canisius scoreless in the
final two innings of a 5-4, 10-inning walk-off win. Then on Sunday, he
pitched 11 scoreless innings to lead Manhattan to a 3-2 win. |
