By Staff Report.

TUCSON, Ariz. — North Carolina (34-2) is ranked No. 1 in Collegiate Baseball newspaper’s NCAA Division I baseball poll after winning nine consecutive games.

The Tar Heels have been ranked at the top of the poll eight of the last nine weeks. Louisiana St. (34-3), ranked No. 1 last week, slipped to second after winning two of three at Arkansas. The Tigers have won 16 of their last 17 games.

No. 3 Vanderbilt (33-4) has won 14 straight and leads the Southeastern Conference with a 14-1 record.

Poll Notes: Several other teams have also been hot. Florida, with an extremely young team, started the season 11-16. But the Gators have won 8 of their last 10 which includes an impressive win against at Florida St. last week and three straight wins against South Carolina as Florida sits at 19-18 overall and 8-7 in the SEC and tied for fourth. Clemson has won 10 straight along with N.C. State. Bryant has the longest winning streak in the nation at 18 in a row. Coastal Carolina has won 9 straight while South Florida has won 8 consecutive.

Six teams fell out of the top 30 this week, including Indiana (1-3), Notre Dame (5 straight losses), Alabama (2-3), Texas A&M (1-3), Florida Gulf Coast (0-4) and Creighton (0-3). New to the poll is Florida, Mississippi (swept a 3-game series from Alabama), Pittsburgh (swept three from Notre Dame), Coastal Carolina (won nine in a row), South Florida (won 8 straight), and Bryant (won 18 in a row).

The Collegiate Baseball newspaper poll is the oldest college baseball poll. Its birth took place during the 1957 college baseball season.

Collegiate Baseball NCAA Division I Poll
(As of April 15, 2013)
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Rank   Team (2013 Record)   Points   Pvs.
  1.   North Carolina (34-2)   499   2
  2.   Louisiana St. (34-3)   498   1
  3.   Vanderbilt (33-4)   497   3
  4.   Cal. St. Fullerton (31-5)   493   5
  5.   Oregon St. (28-6)   489   6
  6.   Florida St. (30-6)   486   7
  7.   Oregon (27-8)   482   9
  8.   Louisville (28-7)   479   11
  9.   Virginia (31-6)   476   4
10.   Oklahoma (28-8)   474   8
11.   UCLA (22-10)   471   15
12.   Clemson (26-11)   469   17
13.   Arkansas (25-12)   467   10
14.   Georgia Tech. (26-10)   463   18
15.   N.C. State (28-10)   460   19
16.   Cal. Poly (24-9)   458   20
17.   Stanford (19-11)   455   23
18.   Mississippi St. (30-9)   452   26
19.   Florida (19-18)   446   —
20.   Mississippi (26-10)   443   —
21.   Arizona (23-12)   441   25
22.   South Carolina (27-10)   439   12
23.   Kentucky (24-11)   437   14
24.   Arizona St. (22-10-1)   435   27
25.   Pittsburgh (24-9)   434   —
26.   Coastal Carolina (24-12)   432   —
27.   Rice (25-13)   429   21
28.   South Florida (22-14)   426   —
29.   Houston (25-11)   423   28
30.   Bryant (23-9-1)   420   —