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March 8, 2010
CollegeBaseballInsider.com Composite Poll
LSU remains on top of the CBI Composite Poll
Florida State rises to second, Virginia falls to third,
Arizona State up to fourth
 By sitting
on top of three of the national polls, the LSU Tigers remain No. 1
in the latest CollegeBaseballInsider.com Composite Poll.
The defending national champion, LSU is first in the Collegiate Baseball,
NCBWA and USA Today/ESPN polls and second in the Baseball America poll. The Tigers,
led by head coach Paul Mainieri (right), defeated Pepperdine twice and Brown
twice in the LSU Invitational in Baton Rouge.
The ACC holds down three of the next
four spots.
Florida State moved up one spot to No. 2. The Seminoles are second in two
polls, third in one and fifth in the other. FSU defeated Florida on Tuesday in
Tampa and swept a three-game series from Georgia in Tallahassee.
Virginia dropped one place to third. The
Cavaliers are first in the Baseball America poll and fourth in the
other three polls. Virginia took two from Dartmouth and split a pair with
Wright State in the Virginia Invitational in Charlottesville.
Arizona State went 4-0 in the Coca-Cola
Classic in Surprise, Ariz., to jump one spot to No. 4. The Sun Devils defeated
Cal Poly, Oregon State, UC Riverside and FIU.
Georgia Tech rose one place to fifth.
The Yellow Jackets swept a three-game set from Rutgers in Atlanta.
UCLA had the largest jump, going from
No. 17 to No. 12. The Bruins took three from Nebraska to raise their record to
9-0.
Oklahoma enters the poll at No. 20, while
UC Irvine fell out of this week's poll.
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 (3/8/10) |
BA |
CB |
NCBWA |
U/E |
Composite |
Last rank |
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1 |
LSU (11-0) |
2 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
1 |
|
2 |
Florida State (10-0) |
5 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
12 |
3 |
|
3 |
Virginia (9-2) |
1 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
13 |
2 |
|
4 |
Arizona State (11-0) |
11 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
19 |
5 |
|
5 |
Georgia Tech (10-1) |
4 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
19 |
6 |
|
6 |
Texas (8-3) |
3 |
6 |
6 |
6 |
21 |
4 |
|
7 |
Florida (7-2) |
6 |
9 |
7 |
8 |
30 |
7 |
|
8 |
TCU (8-2) |
7 |
11 |
8 |
9 |
35 |
8 |
|
9 |
Coastal Carolina (10-1) |
8 |
7 |
12 |
10 |
37 |
9 |
|
10 |
Louisville (11-0) |
10 |
8 |
10 |
11 |
39 |
11 |
|
11 |
Clemson (9-1) |
12 |
13 |
9 |
7 |
41 |
10 |
|
12 |
UCLA (9-0) |
15 |
10 |
16 |
13 |
54 |
17 |
|
13 |
North Carolina (10-1) |
17 |
14 |
11 |
12 |
54 |
13 |
|
14 |
Miami (Fla.) (7-3) |
20 |
15 |
13 |
14 |
62 |
12 |
|
15 |
Arkansas (8-2) |
14 |
19 |
14 |
16 |
63 |
16 |
|
16 |
Oregon State (7-3) |
21 |
12 |
18 |
18 |
69 |
14 |
|
17 |
East Carolina (7-3) |
13 |
20 |
17 |
21 |
71 |
18 |
|
18 |
Mississippi (9-2) |
18 |
18 |
20 |
17 |
73 |
20 |
|
19 |
Rice (7-5) |
9 |
31 |
15 |
19 |
74 |
19 |
|
20 |
Oklahoma (11-1) |
25 |
16 |
19 |
15 |
75 |
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: Arizona
State in No.
2 in one poll, No. 11 in another.
(photo courtesy of LSU Media
Relations Office)
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