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Pirates crack final 2002 Coach's Poll
Bonesville.net
East Carolina, which swept the Conference USA Tournament championship and
won two regional playoff games before succumbing to Omaha-bound Clemson, made
the rankings when it counts the most.
ECU is No. 24 in the season's final USA Today/ESPN Coaches' Poll, thus
securing one of six spots locked down by schools from the Carolinas and Conference USA.
South Carolina, which lost the championship game of the College World Series
last Saturday to Texas, is No. 2 behind the Longhorns. Clemson, the Palmetto
State rival the Gamecocks knocked off to reach the national title game, is
ranked third.
C-USA regular season champion Houston, whom the Pirates defeated in a
showdown in Kinston's
Grainger Stadium for the league's title and automatic NCAA regional berth, is 10th, while Wake
Forest (13) and North Carolina (21) also etched their names in the rankings
that will go into the final 2002 record book, which was
released Monday.
Following is a complete summary of the Coaches' Poll, including teams which
dropped out of the previous poll and teams which received votes but did not
make the rankings:
USA
Today/ESPN Coaches Poll
From staff and electronic reports
The final 2002 USA Today-Baseball Weekly/ESPN Top 25
College Coaches Poll, with first-place votes in parentheses and records, as
selected by 41 Division I head baseball coaches representing the American
Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA); Carolinas and C-USA teams denoted in
BOLD RED. Records through June 22, 2002:
Visit the college baseball page at USAToday.com.
RANK/ TEAM / (RECORD) / PREVIOUS
RANKING / POINTS / (1ST PLACE VOTES)
1. TEXAS
(57-15) 3 1,025
(41).
2. SOUTH CAROLINA
(57-18) 5 977.
3. CLEMSON
(54-17) 4 929.
4. STANFORD
(47-18) 8 915.
5. GEORGIA TECH
(52-16) 9 835.
6. RICE
(52-14) 2 809.
7. NOTRE DAME
(50-18) 16 780.
8. NEBRASKA
(47-21) 13 738.
9. FLORIDA STATE
(60-14) 1 685.
10. HOUSTON
(48-17) 11 618.
11. LOUISIANA STATE (44-22)
14 535.
12. ALABAMA
(51-15) 6 507.
13. WAKE FOREST
(47-13-1) 7 470.
14. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (37-24) 19
453.
15. FLORIDA
(46-19) 10 403.
16. RICHMOND
(53-13) 25 373.
17. WICHITA STATE
(47-17) 12 289.
18. FLORIDA ATLANTIC (46-21)
NR 242.
19. ARIZONA STATE
(37-21) 15 233.
20. MIAMI
(34-29) NR 212.
21. NORTH CAROLINA
(43-21) 18 208.
22. ARKANSAS
(35-28) NR 187.
23. CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE (41-17) 17
181.
24. EAST CAROLINA
(43-20) 22 116.
25. SAN JOSE STATE
(45-17) 20 112.
Dropped out: No. 21 South Alabama (42-19, 3rd, South Bend regional), No. 23
Cal State Fullerton (37-22, 3rd Stanford regional), No. 24 Long Beach State
(39-21, 2nd Stanford regional).
Others receiving votes: South Alabama (109), Cal State Fullerton (99), Long
Beach State (98), Texas Tech (33), Washington (32), Baylor (20), Oral
Roberts (18), Ohio State(12), Arizona (12), Central Florida (10), James
Madison (9), TULANE
(9),Louisiana-Lafayette (9), Auburn (7), Southwest Missouri State (7),
COASTAL CAROLINA (3), Florida
International (3), Stetson (2), LOUISVILLE
(1).
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