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College Baseball Poll - Collegiate Baseball Newspaper PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Wednesday (June 27, 2012) ARIZONA NO. 1 IN COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWSPAPER POLL TUCSON, Ariz. — Arizona (48-17) is ranked No. 1 in the final 2012 Collegiate Baseball newspaper NCAA Division I baseball poll after winning the College World Series with a perfect 5-0 record.The Wildcats beat South Carolina two straight in the championship series and became just the third team in history to never trail at any point in five victories during the College World Series. It marked Arizona's fourth national championship in baseball as the Wildcats closed the season with 11 consecutive wins and victories in 18 of their last 20 games. Arizona Head Coach Andy Lopez became only the second coach to win a Division I baseball national title at two different schools (Pepperdine, 1992) and this year with Arizona. Augie Garrido is the only other coach to
accomplish the feat, winning with Cal. St. Fullerton in 1979, 1984, 1995 and
with Texas in 2002 and 2005. Lopez set an all-time record for most years between
national championships. It has been 20 years since he led 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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