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Feb. 24, 2009
CollegeBaseballInsider.com Composite Poll
North Carolina claims top spot in CBI Composite
Poll
LSU sits in second,
Texas A&M is third, Texas takes
fourth
By sitting on top of two of the four national polls, North Carolina is No. 1
in the latest CollegeBaseballInsider.com Composite Poll.
The USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll will not have its first
regular-season poll until next week, so Kendall Rogers and Rivals.com will
pinch-hit this week for them.
The Tar Heels (3-0) swept a three-game home series this past weekend with VMI
and are No. 1 in the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA)
poll and the Rivals.com poll.
LSU tied UNC in total points, but is second since the Heels are on top of two
polls. The Tigers (3-0) are first in
the Collegiate Baseball poll and second in the other three polls. LSU
swept a three-game home set with Villanova this past weekend.
Texas A&M (4-0) is first in
the Baseball America poll and third in the CBI Composite Poll. The
Aggies took four from Wright State to start the season.
Texas (4-0) climbed two spots to No. 4
after winning four from Illinois-Chicago. Georgia (3-0) won three against
Youngstown State to remain fifth.
After dropping two of three at Cal Poly,
Rice (1-2) fell from third to seventh. Ole Miss went 1-2 at the Coca-Cola
Classic in Mobile, Ala., and dropped 10 spots to No. 20.
UC Irvine (3-1) won three of four at
Hawaii and jumped from No. 16 to No. 8. Florida (3-0) swept a three-game set
from Louisville to improve 11 spots to No. 14.
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 (2/24/09) |
BA |
CB |
NCBWA |
R |
Composite |
Last rank |
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1 |
North Carolina (3-0) |
3 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
7 |
2 |
|
2 |
LSU (3-0) |
2 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
7 |
1 |
|
3 |
Texas A&M (4-0) |
1 |
6 |
3 |
3 |
13 |
4 |
|
4 |
Texas (4-0) |
4 |
8 |
7 |
4 |
23 |
6 |
|
5 |
Georgia (3-0) |
12 |
3 |
4 |
6 |
25 |
5 |
|
6 |
Arizona State (4-0) |
8 |
4 |
6 |
18 |
36 |
7 |
|
7 |
Rice (1-2) |
10 |
10 |
9 |
9 |
38 |
3 |
|
8 |
UC Irvine (3-1) |
5 |
15 |
14 |
5 |
39 |
16 |
|
9 |
Florida State (4-0) |
22 |
5 |
5 |
10 |
42 |
11 |
|
10 |
Cal State Fullerton (1-2) |
7 |
17 |
16 |
8 |
48 |
9 |
|
11 |
Georgia Tech (3-0) |
20 |
9 |
8 |
12 |
49 |
12 |
|
12 |
Baylor (2-1) |
6 |
13 |
20 |
16 |
55 |
14 |
|
13 |
Stanford (2-1) |
14 |
7 |
11 |
24 |
56 |
8 |
|
14 |
Florida (3-0) |
24 |
12 |
13 |
7 |
56 |
25 |
|
15 |
Oklahoma State (4-0) |
25 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
61 |
17 |
|
16 |
San Diego (2-1) |
11 |
27 |
17 |
14 |
69 |
15 |
|
17 |
Miami (Fla.) (3-0) |
26 |
14 |
10 |
20 |
70 |
18 |
|
18 |
Pepperdine (2-1) |
17 |
23 |
21 |
11 |
72 |
22 |
|
19 |
UCLA (2-1) |
9 |
21 |
26 |
17 |
73 |
21 |
|
20 |
Mississippi (1-2) |
13 |
22 |
24 |
19 |
78 |
10 |
|
21 |
Clemson (3-0) |
19 |
25 |
19 |
15 |
78 |
24 |
|
22 |
Oklahoma (4-0) |
16 |
20 |
22 |
21 |
79 |
28 |
|
23 |
Fresno State (2-1) |
26 |
19 |
15 |
26 |
86 |
20 |
|
24 |
Coastal Carolina (3-1) |
26 |
18 |
18 |
26 |
88 |
26 |
|
25 |
TCU (2-1) |
23 |
16 |
27 |
26 |
92 |
32 |
BA-Baseball
America poll; CB-Collegiate
Baseball poll; NCBWA-National
Collegiate Baseball Writers Association poll; R-Rivals.com 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: Miami (Fla.) in No.
10 in one poll, unranked in another.
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