University of North Carolina Athletics
Baseball On The Move Once Again
February 29, 2000 | Baseball
Feb. 29, 2000
After being ranked third in the Collegiate Baseball poll, and ninth by Baseball America, the undefeated Carolina Baseball squad has made it a top ten sweep by placing third in the latest ESPN/USA Today coaches' poll. The Heels were the only team other than #1 Florida State to garner any first place votes. Carolina faces off against Virginia Commonwealth on Wednesday afternoon at 3:00.
Team (1st place) Record Pts. LR 1. Florida St (41) 13-2 1,072 1 2. Stanford 11-4 990 3 3. North Carolina (2) 9-0 977 4 4. Houston 11-3 897 9 5. Auburn 14-3 817 5 6. Texas 13-3 782 8 7. Alabama 8-4 741 7 8. Georgia Tech 8-2 652 6 9. Miami Fla. 11-5 631 10 10. Baylor 11-3 622 12 11. Southern California 9-3 621 14 12. Clemson 8-1 602 13 13. Wichita St 3-0 590 11 14. South Carolina 12-0 510 18 15. Arizona St 15-4 490 16 16. Long Beach St 9-3 465 20 17. LSU 6-5 364 2 18. Cal St Fullerton 5-5 287 15 19. Fresno St 11-3 235 23 20. Louisiana-Lafayette 11-1 228 25 21. Kentucky 10-0 212 24 22. Mississippi St 7-0 199 NR 23. Florida International 13-2 140 21 24. UCLA 7-7 95 19 25. Wake Forest 7-2 80 NR
NR - Not ranked
DROPPED OUT: No. 17 Tulane, No. 22 Rice
OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES (points): Tennessee (72), Arizona (65), East Carolina
(62), Georgia (62), Florida Atlantic (41), Loyola Marymount (41), Nevada (36), Tulane
(34), Mississippi (31), Rice (28), Ohio State (25), Notre Dame (23), Texas Tech
(21),Louisiana-Monroe (16), New Orleans (15), Creighton (14), Oklahoma State (14),
Virginia Commonwealth (12), Richmond (11), North Carolina-Greensboro (6), Southeast
Missouri State (6), McNeese State (6), North Carolina-Charlotte (5), Rutgers (5),
Evansville (5), North Carolina State (4), Nebraska (4), Texas A&M (4), Stetson (3),
Illinois (2), Missouri (2), Oral Roberts (1)..
The Baseball Weekly/ESPN Top 25 Coaches poll is voted on by 42 Division I head coaches, representing members of the American Baseball Coaches Association in all areas of the USA. The Louisville Slugger trophy will be presented to the winner of the NCAA Division I College World Series.
