More Honors For Miami

Hurricanes retain top spot by beating Florida State

Staff Report
April 21, 2008

DURHAM, N.C.—Miami cemented its No. 1 spot in the new Baseball America Top 25 Rankings as the Hurricanes went on the road and defeated No. 3 Florida State in one of the most anticipated series of the year.

Miami remained atop the rankings for the third consecutive week, while North Carolina posted a 5-0 week to move up to No. 2, and Florida State remains at No. 3, giving the ACC the top three teams in the Rankings. BA is still researching to see if any conference ever has placed three teams in the top three spots.

Missouri won a conference series on the road against Oklahoma to move up to No. 4, and one of the biggest movers of the week was Stanford, up five spots to No. 5. The Cardinal won a road series at UCLA to jump ahead of Arizona State, which has split its four Pac-10 Conference series. Rice and Georgia each moved into the Top 10 after winning conference series on the road. Oklahoma State was another team that made a sizable leap, as the Cowboys swept then-No. 20 Texas on the road to move up five spots to No. 13.

Three teams moved into the rankings this week. Former No. 1-ranked Arizona returns to the rankings at No. 23 while riding a 10-game winning streak. North Carolina State and Long Beach State each won midweek games over ranked opponents as well as their weekend series to move into the rankings as well.

The staff of Baseball America determines the Top 25 rankings. Records indicated are through games of April 20 and do not include ties.

COLLEGE TOP 25
Rk.	Team	W-L	Last Week	Prev.
1.	Miami	33-4	3-1	1
2.	North Carolina	34-7	5-0	4
3.	Florida State	34-5	3-2	3
4.	Missouri	28-10	3-1	6
5.	Stanford	21-12	4-1	10
6.	Arizona State	31-6	1-2	2
7.	California	26-10	3-1	8
8.	Nebraska	28-7	3-1	9
9.	Rice	31-10	4-0	11
10.	Georgia	27-12	4-0	13
11.	San Diego	31-11	4-0	12
12.	South Carolina	29-11	4-1	14
13.	Oklahoma State	27-11	4-1	18
14.	Wichita State	30-7	3-2	7
15.	Cal State Fullerton	23-13	3-1	15
16.	UC Irvine	24-9	1-3	5
17.	Vanderbilt	28-11	4-1	17
18.	Texas A&M	33-7	3-1	19
19.	Michigan	28-8	6-0	21
20.	Coastal Carolina	33-7	5-0	22
21.	Mississippi	25-15	1-3	16
22.	Kentucky	30-9	4-1	25
23.	Arizona	25-11	5-0	NR
24.	North Carolina State	27-12	4-1	NR
25.	Long Beach State	23-14	4-0	NR
Dropped Out: Texas (20), Pepperdine (23), East Carolina (24).