A Sea Of Red

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 11 different conferences among the 293 baseball-playing schools in the '07 NCAA Division I ranks. For more information or to join the NCBWA, please go to www.ncbwa.com.

Rank-School-Conference-Overall Record-Preseason Rank
1 Vanderbilt SEC 6-0 4
2 South Carolina SEC 5-1 1
3 North Carolina ACC 3-0 3
4 Clemson 2-1 ACC 2
5 Cal State Fullerton Big West 7-2 5
6 Florida State ACC 9-0 10
7 Oregon State Pacific-10 9-1 9
8 Rice Conference USA 5-4 6
9 Virginia ACC 4-1 8
10 Arkansas SEC 6-2 11
11 Mississippi SEC 4-1 13
12 Nebraska Big 12 3-1 14
13 Arizona State Pac-10 7-3 12
14 Miami (Fla.) ACC 4-4 7
15 Pepperdine West Coast 7-3 18
16 Oklahoma State Big 12 5-1 16
17 Texas Big 12 6-4 15
18 TCU MWC 6-1 21
19 Alabama SEC 6-1 20
20 Tulane C-USA 4-2 22
21 Georgia Tech ACC 3-3 19
22 Winthrop Big South 7-2 24
23 Arizona Pac-10 9-2 23
24 Wichita State MVC 1-2 17
25 Kentucky SEC 3-0 26
26 Long Beach State Big West 5-4 25
27 UCLA Pac-10 6-4 27
28 Florida Atlantic Atlantic Sun 9-0 NR
29 NC State ACC 5-0 NR
30 Coastal Carolina Big South 7-0 NR

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I honestly believe that this could be the year the Big South sends 3 teams to the NCAA regionals. If Coastal and Winthrop can keep winning and stay ranked, and Liberty, High Point, VMI, CSU, and UNCA have good seasons and one of them wins the tourney...it can happen. As for Radford...can we just ask them to stop playing baseball?

The Big South has having a fantastic non-conference start tot he year. It will be tough to maintain this type of success across the board (save Radford). But if WU & CCU keep winning they could both be Top 25 by the time the league starts. And as good as everyone else appears right now, the Big South could actually help their RPI (I thought I'd never type those 8 words in a row).

What are the chances LU cracks the top30 or so by years end?

Little to none. We'd have to be something like 45-10.

We would have to knock off the Arizona's, Wintrhops, and the Coastal's with our schedule the way it is. The Albany's and the GW's won't do much. It would be nice to see 3 BSC teams. I feel that baseball is the best sport that the BSC has to offer by far.