USF Baseball Receives Votes In NCBWA Poll
April 27, 2009 | Baseball
TAMPA ? The University of South Florida baseball team has added another national honor to their list of accomplishments this season as the Bulls received votes in the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association poll on April 27.
The Bulls join three 2009 opponents on the list, including No. 11 Oklahoma, No. 20 Florida and Eastern Illinois (receiving votes).
This week, USF is also ranked No. 25 by College Baseball News and is receiving votes in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches poll.
USF last received votes in the NCBWA regular season poll twice in 2007, first on Feb. 19, and again on Feb. 26. The Bulls also received votes in the NCBWA preseason poll in 2008.
The NCBWA continues its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 12th year with its 2009 weekly surveys. Weekly polls will continue from Feb. 23 to June 25, following the NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb.
Founded in 1962, the NCBWA is dedicated to the advancement of college baseball. Membership is open to writers, broadcasters and publicists of the sport.
The poll voters come from 30 college baseball writers and related media persons from throughout the nation. This week's poll has representation by 11 different conferences among the 302 baseball-playing schools in the 2009 NCAA Division I ranks. There have been 19 separate leagues among the Top 30 in ?09 polls to date. For more information or to join the NCBWA, please go to www.ncbwa.com.
NCBWA Poll (April 27)
Rank School
1 North Carolina
2 Arizona State
3 Rice
4 UC Irvine
5 LSU
6 Cal State Fullerton
7 Georgia
8 Mississippi
9 Florida State
10 Texas
11 Oklahoma
12 Arkansas
13 Miami (Fla.)
14 Georgia Tech
15 Virginia
16 Cal Poly
17 Texas A&M
18 TCU
19 Clemson
20 Florida
21 East Carolina
22 Coastal Carolina
23 Kansas State
24 Baylor
25 Ohio State
26 Oklahoma State
27 Alabama
28 George Mason
29 Oregon State
30 San Diego
Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically):
BYU (24-16)
Dallas Baptist (29-11)
Eastern Illinois (32-9)
Elon (28-13)
Georgia Southern (30-11)
Gonzaga (28-13)
Illinois (26-12)
Kansas (29-15)
Kent State (32-9)
Liberty (29-13)
Middle Tennessee (30-12)
Minnesota (27-12)
New Mexico (31-12)
New Mexico State (34-10)
Rhode Island (29-13-1)
Sam Houston State (28-16)
San Diego State (28-17)
USF (27-15)
Southeastern Louisiana (26-17)
Texas State (31-10)
UC Riverside (24-13)
Vanderbilt (27-17)
Western Carolina (25-17)
Western Kentucky (30-12)
