Buckeyes Finish as High as 17th in Final Baseball Polls – Ohio State Buckeyes
6/27/2003 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
June 27, 2003
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State baseball team finished as high as 17th in the final national polls which were released this week after Rice beat Stanford to win the College World Series Monday night. The Buckeyes finished 44-21 and were two games away from advancing to the CWS in Omaha, Neb.
The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association gave the Buckeyes their highest ranking of the season, picking them 17th in their final Top 35 poll. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper tabbed Ohio State 18th in its Top 30 rankings, while USA Today Sports Weekly/ESPN selected it 20th in its Top 25. OSU was 21st in the final Baseball America Top 25 poll.
The rankings are the highest for the Buckeyes since 1999 when Collegiate Baseball selected the Buckeyes 11th in its final poll. That season was the last time Ohio State advanced to super regional play. That season, the Buckeyes were one game away from its first trip to the College World Series since 1967. Southwest Missouri State took the first two games of the best-two-of-three game series this season in front of standing-room only crowds at Bill Davis Stadium, June 7-8.
FINAL POLLS
Collegiate Baseball
1. Rice
2. Stanford
3. Cal St.-Fullerton
4. Texas
5. Miami (Fla.)
6. South Carolina
7. LSU
8. SW Missouri St.
9. Florida State
10. Arizona State
11. Long Beach St.
12. N.C. State
13. Baylor
14. Georgia Tech
15. Nebraska
16. Houston
17. Texas A&M
18. OHIO STATE
19. North Carolina
20. Auburn
21. Richmond
22. Lamar
23. Florida Atlantic
24. Mississippi St.
25. Southern Miss
Baseball America
1. Rice
2. Stanford
3. Cal St.-Fullerton
4. Texas
5. LSU
6. Florida State
7. Arizona State
8. Miami (Fla.)
9. Long Beach St.
10. South Carolina
11. Baylor
12. N.C. State
13. Nebraska
14. Texas A&M
15. Southern Miss
16. SW Missouri St.
17. Georgia Tech
18. Auburn
19. North Carolina
20. UNLV
21. OHIO STATE
22. Houston
23. Florida Atlantic
24. Mississippi St.
25. Washington
Sports Weekly/ESPN
1. Rice
2. Stanford
3. Cal St.-Fullerton
4. Texas
5. Miami (Fla.)
6. LSU
7. South Carolina
8. Florida State
9. Arizona State
10. Long Beach St.
11. SW Missouri St.
12. N.C. State
13. Baylor
14. Nebraska
15. Texas A&M
16. Georgia Tech
17. Auburn
18. Southern Miss
19. Mississippi St.
20. OHIO STATE
21. North Carolina
22. UNLV
23. Richmond
24. Houston
25. Florida Atlantic
NCBWA
1. Rice
2. Stanford
3. Cal St.-Fullerton
4. Texas
5. Miami (Fla.)
6. South Carolina
7. Arizona State
8. Florida State
9. LSU
10. SW Missouri St.
11. Long Beach St.
12. Baylor
13. N.C. State
14. Georgia Tech
15. Nebraska
16. Texas A&M
17. OHIO STATE
18. Auburn
19. Southern Miss
20. Houston
21. Richmond
22. Florida Atlantic
23. Lamar
24. Mississippi St.
25. Tulane
