Sorry if this is old but it sure does make me proud to see the baseball team getting some respect even though we were picked to come in 5th in the West. Also in the ESPN/USA Today I think they have LSU at 31(?) 2008 PRESEASON NCBWA TOP 35 POLL (JAN. 17) Rk. School Conference Record Pvs. 1. Arizona State Pacific-10 49-15 4 2. North Carolina Atlantic Coast 57-16 2 3. Rice Conference USA 56-14 3 4. South Carolina Southeastern 46-20 8 5. Arizona Pacific-10 42-17 21 6. Texas Big 12 46-17 12 7. Mississippi Southeastern 40-25 17 8. Vanderbilt Southeastern 54-13 6 9. San Diego West Coast 43-18 23 10. Wichita State Missouri Valley 53-22 16 11. Oregon State Pacific-10 49-18 1 12. Miami Atlantic Coast 37-24 - 13. Florida State Atlantic Coast 49-13 14 14. Cal State Fullerton Big West 38-25 10 15. Michigan Big Ten 42-19 20 16. Clemson Atlantic Coast 41-23 15 17. Missouri Big 12 42-18 25 18. Long Beach State Big West 39-20 27 19. UCLA Pacific-10 33-28 26 20. Texas A&M Big 12 48-19 11 21. Virginia Atlantic Coast 45-16 13 22. UC Irvine Big West 47-17 5 23. Louisville Big East 47-24 8 24. Mississippi State Southeastern 38-22 9 25. Kentucky Southeastern 34-19 - 26. Baylor Big 12 35-27 - 27. Oklahoma State Big 12 42-21 18 28. Louisiana-Lafayette Sun Belt 45-17 29 29. Fresno State Western Athletic 38-29 - 30. Coastal Carolina Big South 50-13 19 31. Georgia Tech Atlantic Coast 32-25 - 32. Pepperdine West Coast 35-22 - 33. Southern Miss Conference USA 39-23 - 34. LSU Southeastern 29-26 - 35. Arkansas Southeastern 43-21 22 Others receiving votes (listed alphabetically): Alabama (31-26), Austin Peay State (40-22), Bethune-Cookman (33-27), California (29-26), Charlotte (49-12), College of Charleston (39-19), Creighton (45-16), East Carolina (40-23), Georgia (23-33), Kent State (33-26), Louisiana Tech (35-24), Memphis (36-27), Minnesota (41-18), Nebraska (32-27), New Orleans (38-26), North Carolina State (38-23), Old Dominion (35-24), Oral Roberts (40-17), Penn State (31-26), Sam Houston State (40-24), South Florida (34-26), Southern California (27-29), Southern Illinois (34-22), St. John's (41-19), Stetson (42-21), Texas Christian (48-14), Texas-San Antonio (36-22), Tulane (34-26), UC Riverside (38-21), UCF (27-32), VMI (34-21), Wake Forest (34-29), Western Carolina (42-20). By conference: Southeastern 7, Atlantic Coast 6, Big 12 5, Pacific-10 4, Big West 3, Conference USA 2, West Coast 2, Big East 1, Big South 1, Big Ten 1, Missouri Valley 1, Sun Belt 1, Western Athletic 1. Records are from the 2007 season; Previous rank is from final 2007 poll :geauxtige:LSU231:
