College Top 25: April 27

UC Irvine remains No. 1

Staff Report
April 27, 2009

UC Irvine retained the No. 1 ranking in the Baseball America Top 25 rankings thanks to a pair of midweek wins against Oregon and a weekend series win at Utah.

The top four teams in the rankings remained the same, as Irvine, Rice, Arizona State and North Carolina all posted winning weeks. Cal State Fullerton and Mississippi each jumped up four spots to Nos. 6 and 7, respectively. The Titans swept UC Davis over the weekend and allowed only one run in the entire series, while the Rebels took two of three against Georgia, which slid from No. 8 to No. 11.

Kansas State continued its impressive season by making the biggest jump of any team the rankings. The Wildcats won the first two games of their series on the road against Texas before the finale ended in a tie, enabling them to vault seven to No. 16. Fellow Big 12 member Texas A&M also made a sizeable leap, moving up four spots to No. 20 thanks to a series win over Oklahoma State that put the Aggies in first place in the league. Baylor, which has lost six in a row, plummeted eight spots to 17th.

Three teams returned to the rankings this week. Clemson bested No. 10 Georgia Tech over the weekend to return to the rankings for the first time since mid-March at No. 21. The Tigers are joined by Florida, which swept its weekend series over South Carolina, and East Carolina, which knocked off Southern Mississippi.

staff of Baseball America determines the Top 25 rankings. Records indicated are through games of April 26 and do not include ties.

Rk.	Team	W-L	Last Week	Prev.
1.	UC Irvine	30-11	4-1	1
2.	Rice	28-10	1-0	2
3.	Arizona State	31-9	3-1	3
4.	North Carolina	35-11	4-1	4
5.	Louisiana State	33-11	5-0	6
6.	Cal State Fullerton	29-11	5-0	10
7.	Mississippi	32-12	4-1	11
8.	Texas	29-11	0-3	5
9.	Oklahoma	33-11	4-0	13
10.	Georgia Tech	28-11	2-3	7
11.	Georgia	33-11	2-3	8
12.	Arkansas	29-12	3-1	12
13.	Cal Poly	29-10	2-1	14
14.	Virginia	34-9	4-1	15
15.	Texas Christian	27-12	4-1	16
16.	Kansas State	31-11	2-0	23
17.	Baylor	25-17	0-5	9
18.	Miami	29-14	3-1	18
19.	Florida State	30-12	5-0	21
20.	Texas A&M	28-15	3-1	24
21.	Clemson	30-15	4-1	NR
22.	Alabama	29-15	2-2	22
23.	Kent State	32-9	4-1	25
24.	Florida	31-14	5-0	NR
25.	East Carolina	32-13	4-1	NR
Dropped Out: Oregon State (17), San Diego State (19), Hawaii (20)