DALLAS (NCBWA) – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, with a panel of college baseball experts, presents its popular NCAA Division I Top 35 poll in 2002.
Voting on the weekly NCBWA poll is conducted by a select panel of the organization’s members. Each poll of the 2002 season has representation by several different conferences and top independents among the 279 baseball-playing schools in the NCAA Division I ranks.
Here is the final survey with school records in parentheses:
| 2002 FINAL NCBWA COLLEGE BASEBALL POLL | |||
| Rank 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. | School (Record) Texas (57-15) South Carolina (57-18) Clemson (54-17) Georgia Tech (52-16) Stanford (47-18) Rice (52-14) Notre Dame (50-18) Nebraska (47-21) Houston (48-17) Florida State (60-14) Richmond (53-13) LSU (44-22) Southern California (36-24) Wake Forest (47-13) Florida Atlantic (46-21) Alabama (51-15) North Carolina (43-21) | 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. | Arkansas (35-28) Miami (34-29) Oral Roberts (48-19) Florida (46-19) Wichita State (47-17) Arizona State (37-21) Cal State Northridge (41-17) Texas Tech (42-20) South Alabama (42-19) Cal State Fullerton (37-22) Baylor (36-26) Long Beach State (39-21) San Jose State (45-17) Louisiana-Lafayette (39-23) Southwest Missouri St. (45-22) Louisville (39-19) Northwestern State (45-18) Southeast Missouri (38-20) |
| Others Receiving Votes: Rutgers, San Diego, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Auburn, Oral Roberts, Kent State, UNC Wilmington, George Washington, Oklahoma State, Tulane, New Mexico State | |||