NCBWA May 7 Division I Poll

DALLAS - The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its
tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 10th year with its 2007 weekly
surveys. Weekly polls will be circulated from Feb. 12-June 26 following the
NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb.

The poll voters come from 32 college baseball writers and related media persons
from throughout the nation. This week's poll has representation by 13 different
conferences (season-high number for the fifth time this season) among the 293
baseball-playing schools in the '07 NCAA Division I ranks, and 17 circuits have
had teams in the polls in '07. For more information or to join the NCBWA, please
go to www.ncbwa.com.

Rank-School-Conference-Overall Record-Previous Rank
1 Vanderbilt Southeastern 41-9 1
2 Florida State Atlantic Coast 42-7 2
3 Rice Conference USA 37-11 3
4 North Carolina ACC 37-10 5
5 Virginia ACC 38-10 6
6 Texas Big 12 38-14 4
7 South Carolina SEC 35-14 8
8 Arizona State Pacific-10 34-12 10
9 Arkansas SEC 36-14 7
10 Texas A&M Big 12 38-11 11
11 Wichita State Missouri Valley 41-13 12
12 Oregon State Pac-10 35-11 9
13 Arizona Pac-10 35-11 15
14 San Diego West Coast  38-14 16
15 Oklahoma State Big 12 34-13 17
16 Clemson ACC 31-16 14
17 Coastal Carolina Big South 38-9 19
18 Mississippi State SEC 31-12 20
19 Mississippi SEC 32-18 13
20 Long Beach State Big West 30-14 23
21 Pepperdine West Coast 31-16 21
22 UC Irvine Big West 31-13-1 22
23 Charlotte Atlantic 10 38-9 25
24 Missouri Big 12 33-13 28
25 Cal State Fullerton Big West 28-18 18
26 Michigan Big Ten 34-10 26
27 College of Charleston Southern 36-12 24
28 NC State ACC 31-16 27
29 TCU Mountain West 37-11 29
30 East Carolina C-USA 32-15 NR

Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Creighton (32-12), Kentucky (31-15-1), LSU (28-21-1), Louisiana-Lafayette (35-13), Miami (Fla.) (30-19), Minnesota (33-10), Southern Miss (30-19), St. John's (32-13), Stetson (36-12), UC Riverside (30-17), UCLA (27-19).

Dropped Out: Minnesota (30)

By conference: Atlantic Coast 5, Southeastern 5, Big 12 4, Big West 3, Pacific-10 3, Conference USA 2, West Coast 2, Atlantic 10 1, Big South 1, Big Ten 1, Missouri Valley 1, Mountain West 1, Southern 1.