The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA polls with the NCBWA/D3baseball.com Division III Poll. Weekly polls continue through the NCAA Division III Championship.
The D3baseball.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of 25 coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country, and is published weekly.
NCBWA/D3BASEBALL.COM DIVISION III POLL (FEB. 28) | |||||
Rk. | School [1st place] | Location | Record | Pts. | Pvs. |
1. | Salisbury [21] | Salisbury, Md. | 5-0 | 620 | 1 |
2. | Birmingham-Southern [2] | Birmingham, Ala. | 8-1 | 587 | 4 |
3. | Eastern Connecticut [2] | Willimantic, Conn. | 3-0 | 569 | 2 |
4. | LaGrange | LaGrange, Ga. | 5-2 | 512 | 3 |
5. | Baldwin Wallace | Berea, Ohio | 5-1 | 479 | 10 |
6. | UW-Stevens Point | Stevens Point, Wis. | 0-0 | 473 | 8 |
7. | UW-Whitewater | Whitewater, Wis. | 0-0 | 457 | 9 |
8. | Rowan | Glassboro, N.J. | 0-0 | 425 | 11 |
9. | Endicott | Beverly, Mass. | 0-0 | 397 | 12 |
10. | Trinity | San Antonio, Texas | 5-4 | 325 | 5 |
11. | Shenandoah | Winchester, Va. | 7-0 | 315 | 21 |
12. | Denison | Granville, Ohio | 3-0 | 311 | 18 |
13. | Lynchburg | Lynchburg, Va. | 4-1 | 282 | 16 |
14. | Catholic | Washington, D.C. | 5-0 | 266 | 20 |
15. | Marietta | Marietta, Ohio | 2-2 | 259 | 6 |
16. | Arcadia | Glenside, Pa. | 2-1 | 238 | 15 |
17. | Webster | St. Louis, Mo. | 1-2 | 205 | 13 |
18. | Christopher Newport | Newport News, Va. | 9-1 | 184 | RV |
19. | Ithaca | Ithaca, N.Y. | 2-1 | 160 | 19 |
20. | Cortland | Cortland, N.Y. | 2-3 | 145 | 14 |
21. | North Central | Naperville, Ill. | 4-1 | 137 | 23 |
22. | Oswego State | Oswego, N.Y. | 1-2 | 108 | 17 |
23. | Randolph-Macon | Ashland, Va. | 5-0 | 104 | RV |
24. | Chapman | Orange, Calif. | 1-5 | 69 | 7 |
25. | Johns Hopkins | Baltimore, Md. | 2-0 | 49 | RV |
Also receiving votes: Washington & Jefferson 37, Wooster 35, Maryville (Tenn.) 31, Aurora 27, Cal Lutheran 25, Piedmont 24, Buena Vista 22, Hendrix 20, Middlebury 18, Pomona-Pitzer 14, Wheaton (Mass.) 12, Lewis & Clark 12, East Texas Baptist 10, Millikin 8, Kean 8, UW-Oshkosh 7, Claremont-M-S 6, Rhodes 6, Methodist 6, Montclair St. 6, Skidmore 4, Gustavus Adolphus 3, Rochester 3 , William Paterson 3, Augustana (Ill.) 1, Spalding 1. | |||||
Dropped out: Wooster (22), East Texas Baptist (24), Aurora (25). |
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