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April 1, 2008
CollegeBaseballInsider.com Composite Poll
Arizona State remains No. 1 in CBI Composite
Poll
Miami, Florida State and North Carolina holds spots in Top
Four
By sitting on top of all four national
polls for the third consecutive week,
Arizona State remains No. 1
in the CollegeBaseballInsider.com Composite Poll.
The Sun Devils went 3-0 this
past week to raise their record to 25-1. ASU swept a three-game Pac-10 series
from USC.
Miami (Fla.) won its four games last
week, two against Bethune-Cookman and two at Duke, to improve to 21-2 and stay
at No. 2. Florida State (23-3)
beat Stetson twice and took two of three at Wake Forest to remain at No. 3. North Carolina (21-5)
defeated Davidson and Gardner-Webb before splitting a pair with NC State to
hold at No. 4. UC Irvine (19-3) handled Harvard and won two of three at Cal
Poly to climb two spots to No. 5.
Wichita State (20-3) went 6-0 last week
and climbed five spots to No. 9. Nebraska (21-4-1) went 4-1, including 2-1 at
Texas, to rise seven places to No. 12.
About the
CollegeBaseballInsider.com Composite Poll
The
CollegeBaseballInsider.com Composite Poll weighs the four primary national
polls, thereby providing the most accurate national ranking. In case of ties in the composite ranking, the team with a higher
individual ranking will come first.
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CBI Composite Poll (4/1/08) |
BA |
CB |
NCBWA |
U/E |
Composite |
Last rank |
|
1 |
Arizona State (25-1) |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
|
2 |
Miami (Fla.) (21-2) |
2 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
9 |
2 |
|
3 |
Florida State (23-3) |
6 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
14 |
3 |
|
4 |
North Carolina (21-5) |
3 |
5 |
4 |
4 |
16 |
4 |
|
5 |
UC Irvine (19-3) |
5 |
4 |
5 |
5 |
19 |
7 |
|
6 |
South Carolina (18-7) |
9 |
6 |
7 |
6 |
28 |
9 |
|
7 |
Missouri (20-5) |
4 |
12 |
10 |
7 |
33 |
6 |
|
8 |
Vanderbilt (18-6) |
8 |
13 |
6 |
8 |
35 |
11 |
|
9 |
Wichita State (20-3) |
12 |
8 |
8 |
11 |
39 |
14 |
|
10 |
Long Beach State (17-7) |
10 |
11 |
9 |
9 |
39 |
5 |
|
11 |
California (18-5-1) |
7 |
7 |
20 |
12 |
46 |
15 |
|
12 |
Nebraska (21-4-1) |
11 |
9 |
22 |
10 |
52 |
19 |
|
13 |
Virginia (23-5) |
14 |
16 |
12 |
15 |
57 |
16 |
|
14 |
Texas (18-8) |
16 |
15 |
13 |
14 |
58 |
10 |
|
15 |
Kentucky (22-4) |
21 |
10 |
14 |
17 |
62 |
13 |
|
16 |
Rice (19-9) |
15 |
21 |
15 |
16 |
67 |
12 |
|
17 |
Florida (20-6) |
19 |
17 |
25 |
13 |
74 |
NR |
|
18 |
Arizona (14-9) |
18 |
31 |
11 |
18 |
78 |
8 |
|
19 |
Texas A&M (21-6) |
26 |
23 |
16 |
19 |
84 |
NR |
|
20 |
Georgia Tech (22-5) |
26 |
14 |
24 |
21 |
85 |
NR |
BA-Baseball
America poll; CB-Collegiate
Baseball poll; NCBWA-National
Collegiate Baseball Writers Association poll; U/E-USA Today/ESPN Coaches poll; Composite-Sum
of rankings;
Last rank-Last week's composite ranking
Why a composite poll? CBI felt
that four national polls was enough. Plus, each week you find discrepancies that
make it tough to gauge where a team really is. This week's example: California is
No. 7 in two polls, No. 20 in another.
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