The National Colligate Baseball Writers Association poll (the one Tech uses) released its rankings for this week, and Tech was bumped up four spots to number 14 after last weekend's series win at Virginia Tech. Check out the complete release and poll below:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 11, 2013

NCBWA March 11 Division I Poll Release

DALLAS - The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 16th year with its 2013 weekly surveys. Polls will be circulated from Feb. 18-June 27 (weekly through June 11) following the 67th annual NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb., at TD Ameritade Park.

North Carolina (four consecutive weeks) and Arkansas (preseason No. 1) have held down the No. 1 position throughout the 2013 surveys. The poll voters come from 44 college baseball writers and related media persons from throughout the nation.

The current poll has representation by 10 different conferences (13 total for the season) among the 298 baseball-playing schools in the 2013 NCAA Division I ranks. The surveys of 2012 had a NCBWA-poll record 22 different DI conferences and independents rated at least one week. For more information or to join the NCBWA, please go to www.ncbwa.com.

Rank- School (Conference)- 2013 Record- Previous Rank
1 North Carolina (Atlantic Coast) 14-0 1
2 Vanderbilt (Southeastern) 15-2 2
3 LSU (SEC) 15-1 3
4 Oregon State (Pac-12) 15-0 4
5 Florida State (ACC) 15-0 5
6 South Carolina (SEC) 13-2 8
7 UCLA (Pac-12) 11-3 7
8 Ole Miss (SEC) 16-1 15
9 Kentucky (SEC) 13-2 10
10 Mississippi State (SEC) 17-2 6
11 Arkansas (SEC) 11-5 16
12 Oregon (Pac-12) 11-5 11
13 Cal State Fullerton (Big West) 13-3 13
14 Georgia Tech (ACC) 14-2 18
15 Louisville (Big East) 12-2 20
16 Stanford (Pac-12) 10-5 9
17 Virginia (ACC) 14-1 19
18 NC State (ACC) 12-4 12
19 Arizona State (Pac-12) 10-2-1 23
20 Oklahoma (Big 12) 12-4 14
21 Arizona (Pac-12) 13-5 17
22 Cal Poly (Big West) 13-2 25
23 Notre Dame (Big East) 10-3 26
24 Oklahoma State (Big 12) 12-3 27
25 Florida Gulf Coast (Atlantic Sun) 13-3 29
26 UC Irvine (Big West) 12-4 21
27 Rice (Conference USA) 9-7 22
28 UNLV (Mountain West) 13-3 NR
29 Miami (Fla.) (ACC) 13-4 24
30 Central Arkansas (Southland) 14-2 NR

Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Auburn (12-3), Campbell (13-2), Clemson (9-5), Connecticut (8-4), Dartmouth (3-0), Furman (12-4), Gonzaga (8-4-1), Houston (12-4), Illinois (10-4), Indiana (8-3), Lamar (14-2), Louisiana-Lafayette (13-3), Mercer (14-3), Missouri State (10-3), San Diego (11-6), South Alabama (14-3), Texas (10-5), Texas A&M (10-7), Troy (11-3), UTSA (12-5), Virginia Tech (12-4).

Dropped Out: Mercer (28), Virginia Tech (30) .

By conference: SEC 7, ACC 6, Pac-12 6, Big West 3, Big 12 2, Big East 2, A-Sun 1, C-USA 1, MWC 1, SLC 1.
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