FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE USA TODAY/ESPN TOP 25 COACHES’ POLL — Jan. 27, 2011 The USA TODAY/ESPN Top 25 baseball coaches’ poll, with FINAL 2010 RECORDS, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, ranking in final 2010 poll (June 30) and first- place votes received: Final 2010 First-place Rank School (2010 record) Points rank votes

1. UCLA (51-17) 741 2 9 2. TCU (54-14) 728 3 9 3. Florida (47-17) 709 8 7 4. Vanderbilt (46-20) 593 13 1 5. Clemson (45-25) 592 4 0 6. Oklahoma (50-18) 587 5 0 7. Texas (50-13) 577 9 0 8. South Carolina (54-16) 564 1 5 9. Cal State Fullerton (46-18) 449 12 0 10. Oregon (40-24) 402 not ranked 0 11. Florida State (48-20) 401 6 0 12. Arizona State (52-10) 372 7 0 13. Texas A&M (43-21-1) 371 21 0 14. Virginia (51-14) 369 10 0 15. LSU (41-22) 278 25 0 16. Stanford (31-25) 277 not ranked 0 17. Rice (40-23) 261 20 0 18. Miami (Fla.) (43-20) 249 15 0 19. Georgia Tech (47-15) 214 17 0 20. Coastal Carolina (55-10) 210 11 0 21. Louisville (50-14) 178 16 0 22. Connecticut (48-16) 156 23 0 23. Auburn (43-21) 128 19 0 24. Arkansas (43-21) 113 14 0 25. Arizona (34-24) 110 not ranked 0

Others receiving votes (with 2010 records): UC-Irvine (39-21) 92; Alabama (42-25) 75; Wichita State (41-19) 54; North Carolina (38-22) 31; Mississippi (39-24) 28; San Diego (37-22) 27; College of Charleston (44-19) 24; St. John‘s (43-20) 17; Baylor (36-24) 14; Fresno State (38-25) 14; Washington State (37-22) 14; Oregon State (32-24) 11; Virginia Tech (40-22) 9; Tulane (32-24) 8; California (29-25) 5; Kansas State (37-22) 5; Pittsburgh (38-18) 5; Kent State (39-25) 3; Central Florida (33- 22) 2; Florida Atlantic (37-24) 2; Southern Mississippi (36-24) 2; Hawaii (35-28) 1; Liberty (42-19) 1; Minnesota (32-30) 1; North Carolina State (38-24) 1.

The USA TODAY/ESPN Board of Coaches is made up of 31 coaches at Division I institutions. All are members of the American Baseball Coaches Association. The board for the 2011 season: Terry Alexander, Jacksonville; John Anderson, Minnesota; Ed Blankmeyer, St. John's; Rob Cooper, Wright State; Sherman Corbett, Texas-San Antonio; , Vanderbilt; Greg DiCenzo, Holy Cross; David Eldredge, Southern Utah; Mike Gaski, North Carolina-Greensboro; Nino Giarratano, San Francisco; Gary Gilmore, Coastal Carolina; Keith Guttin, Missouri State; Danny Hall, Georgia Tech; Daniel Heefner, Dallas Baptist; Loren Hibbs, Charlotte; Charlie Hickey, Central Connecticut State; , Oregon; Steve Jaksa, Central Michigan; Omar Johnson, Jackson State; Rick Jones, Tulane; Steve Kittrell, South Alabama; Kevin Leighton, Manhattan; Gary McClure, Austin Peay; Mervyl Melendez, Bethune-Cookman; Gary Powers, Nevada; Mark Scalf, North Carolina- Wilmington; Jim Schlossnagle, TCU; Matt Senk, Stony Brook; Doug Smith, UC-Riverside; , Baylor; Bob Whalen, Dartmouth.