LSU Ranked No. 1 in Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Poll
BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU
is ranked No. 1 in the Collegiate Baseball newspaper poll released
Monday. The Tigers (30-7) have won 13 of their last 14 games, including
the last six in a row, and are tied for first place in the SEC
standings with No. 2 Kentucky. LSU and Kentucky meet in
Lexington, Ky. this weekend in a three-game league series beginning at
5:30 p.m. CT Friday in Cliff Hagan Stadium. The 2012 club
becomes the third LSU team to be ranked No. 1 during the six-season
tenure of coach Paul Mainieri. The 2009 team, which won the national
championship, was ranked No. 1 in seven different weeks. The 2010
Fighting Tiger squad held a No. 1 ranking for three weeks. “We’re
certainly very proud of the No. 1 ranking,” Mainieri said. “It brings a
lot of notoriety, but it also brings a lot of responsibility. We are
not going to ask our players to do anything more that what they’ve been
doing. We want them to continue to play relaxed and aggressive, and
have fun. It’s a great honor, but it’s most important to be No. 1 at
the end of the year.” LSU’s next game is at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, when the Tigers play host to Lamar in Alex Box Stadium. Collegiate
Baseball
Newspaper
NCAA Div. I Poll
(As of April 16,
2012)
Rank School
(Record)
Points Previous
1. LSU
(30-7)
497
3
2. Kentucky
(32-5)
496
1
3. Baylor
(30-7)
495
5
4. Florida
(28-8)
492
4
5. Florida St.
(29-7)
490
2
6. Oregon
(24-10)
487
10
7. UCLA
(24-8)
486
11
8. Arizona
(24-11)
479
8
9. Texas A&M
(28-8)
477
6
10. North Carolina
(27-9)
474
12
11. Rice
(27-11)
472
13
12. Central Florida
(30-8)
469
15
13. South Carolina
(27-10)
467
18
14. Cal St. Fullerton
(23-12)
466
14
15. Miami, Fla.
(25-11)
464
7
16. Arkansas
(25-10)
463
9
17. San Diego
(29-8)
461
19
18. N.C. State
(24-10)
460
17
19. Stanford
(22-9)
458
16
20. Sam Houston St.
(25-10)
456
20
21. Arizona St.
(23-13)
454
24
22. Purdue
(28-5)
453
22
23. Texas
(20-13)
451
25
24. Mississippi
(24-12)
449
21
25. New Mexico St.
(27-10)
448
23
26. Oklahoma
(22-14)
446
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27. Louisville
(25-11)
439
26
28. Texas Christian
(20-13)
436
-
29. Missouri St.
(27-10)
434
-
30. Oregon St.
(23-11)
430
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