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Tigers move up one spot in USA Today baseball coaches' poll


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The USA TODAY Sports Top 25 baseball coaches’ poll, with RECORDS THROUGH SUNDAY, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, ranking in last week’s poll and first-place votes received:

        Last   First-place

	Rank	School (record)			Pts	rank	votes

1. Vanderbilt (48-7) 775 1 31

2. LSU (48-8) 699 3 0

3. Oregon State (43-9) 694 4 0

4. Cal State-Fullerton (45-8) 671 5 0

5. North Carolina (47-8) 638 2 0

6. Virginia (45-9) 630 7 0

7. Florida State (44-11) 587 8 0

8. Oregon (43-13) 563 6 0

9. North Carolina State (42-13) 525 9 0

10. Louisville (46-10) 508 11 0

11. UCLA (37-15) 481 10 0

12. South Carolina (39-16) 396 12 0

13. Mississippi State (40-16) 356 16 0

14. Oklahoma State (39-14) 305 18 0

15. Arkansas (35-19) 299 13 0

16. Indiana (40-13) 281 17 0

17. Kansas State (39-16) 243 21 0

18. Clemson (39-17) 225 19 0

19. Arizona State (34-17-1) 219 15 0

20. Rice (37-17) 216 22 0

21. Mississippi (36-20) 193 14 0

22. Cal Poly (37-16) 91 NR 0

23. Mercer (42-14) 79 NR 0

24. Oklahoma (36-19) 76 20 0

25. Campbell (46-9) 59 NR 0

Dropped out: No. 23 Pittsburgh, No. 24 South Alabama, No. 25 UC-Irvine.

Others receiving votes: South Alabama (40-16) 43; New Mexico (35-18) 36; Austin Peay (42-13) 22; Pittsburgh (40-15) 21; Troy (39-16) 20; Seton Hall (36-17) 18; Virginia Tech (35-19) 14; Gonzaga (32-18) 12; Georgia Tech (33-23) 11; Miami (Fla.) (35-21) 11; Arizona (31-21) 8; Florida Gulf Coast (37-18) 7; Sam Houston State (36-18) 7; UC-Irvine (31-20) 7; Stanford (29-21) 6; UNLV (36-18) 6; Bryant (40-15) 5; Coastal Carolina (35-19) 3; Louisiana-Lafayette (38-17) 3; Illinois State (36-18) 2; North Carolina-Wilmington (37-19) 2; Western Carolina (38-18) 2.

The USA TODAY Sports Board of Coaches is made up of 31 coaches at Division I institutions. All are members of the American Baseball Coaches Association.

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