College Top 25: May 5

Lousiana State climbs back into poll, Miami still No. 1

Staff Report
May 5, 2008

Miami swept St. Mary's to improve its record to 39-5 and remain atop the Baseball America Top 25 Rankings for the fifth straight week.

Arizona State won its series on the road against Pac-10 opponent UCLA to move up to the No. 3 spot. The Sun Devils were followed by Florida State, winner of a pair of games on the road against Clemson, and Nebraska, who swept Louisiana-Lafayette, at the Nos. 4 and 5 spots. Stanford lost a pair of midweek games against Santa Clara and UC Davis to slip to No. 6.

Unlike most weeks this season, there was not much movement in the middle of the rankings this week. Vanderbilt swept in-state rival Tennessee to move up to second place in the Southeastern Conference, good for a No. 18 ranking, and St. John's swept Big East foe West Virginia to move up three spots to No. 21.

Two teams made their season debuts in the rankings this week. Louisiana State swept then-No. 18 Kentucky on the road to move into the rankings at No. 22, while Texas Christian, who has won of 23 of their last 29 games to run its record to 33-16 overall, swept Utah to crack the Rankings at No. 25.

The staff of Baseball America determines the Top 25 rankings. Records indicated are through games of May 4 and do not include ties.

COLLEGE TOP 25
Rk.	Team	W-L	Last Week	Prev.
1.	Miami	39-5	3-0	1
2.	North Carolina	38-8	0-0	2
3.	Arizona State	37-8	2-1	4
4.	Florida State	39-7	4-0	5
5.	Nebraska	36-8	4-0	6
6.	Stanford	27-15	2-2	3
7.	Rice	34-11	0-0	7
8.	San Diego	37-13	2-2	8
9.	Texas A&M	40-8	3-1	10
10.	Oklahoma State	35-12	3-1	9
11.	Georgia	31-15	2-1	11
12.	Cal State Fullerton	29-16	3-1	12
13.	UC Irvine	30-12	2-2	13
14.	Wichita State	36-11	3-2	14
15.	Missouri	31-16	2-2	15
16.	California	29-15	2-2	16
17.	South Carolina	33-15	2-1	17
18.	Vanderbilt	34-13	3-0	22
19.	North Carolina State	32-14	2-1	19
20.	Michigan	34-11	4-1	21
21.	St. John's	35-10	4-0	24
22.	Louisiana State	32-16	4-0	NR
23.	Kentucky	34-13	1-3	18
24.	Coastal Carolina	38-11	2-2	20
25.	Texas Christian	33-16	4-1	NR
Dropped Out: Oregon State (23), Long Beach State (25).