News digest, March 15, Part 2

Gamecocks Tigers in composite Top 25
Each week, CollegeBaseballInsider.com posts a composite poll of five national NCAA Division I rankings. In the table below, I've added PerfectGame.org to the mix for a six-ranking composite.

Florida is a consensus -- and unanimous -- No. 1.

South Carolina, which is ranked in four of the polls, is a composite No. 18. Clemson, also ranked in four polls, comes in at No. 23.

Coastal Carolina and College of Charleston finished in ties for 32nd and 35th, respectively, when all poll results were tabulated.

	School	NCBWA	BBA	USAT	CB	D1	PG	Total
1.	Florida	25	25	25	25	25	25	150
2.	Vanderbilt	24	21	24	24	24	24	141
3.	Texas A&M	23	24	23	23	23	23	139
4.	Louisville	22	22	22	22	21	21	130
5.	Oregon State	21	23	21	20	22	22	129
6.	Miami	20	20	20	21	16	14	111
7.	LSU	17	19	18	16	19	20	109
8.	TCU	19	18	19	15	18	18	107
9.	North Carolina	16	15	17	19	20	17	104
10.	Mississippi	15	14	16	18	17	13	93
11.	Florida State	18	13	15	17	15	11	89
12.	California	13	17	12	10	14	15	81
13.	Virginia	14	16	9	12	8	12	71
14.	Miss. State	12	11	11	13	11	5	63
15.	Arkansas	11	9	13	9	12	8	62
16.	Oregon	10	7	8	8	5	19	57
17.	N.C. State	8	5	10	3	13	16	55
18.	South Carolina	9	0	14	6	10	0	39
19.	UCLA	3	12	0	0	6	10	31
20.	Missouri State	7	0	7	14	0	0	28
21.	U. of Louisiana	5	10	0	0	2	9	26
22.	Fla. Atlantic	6	0	6	11	0	0	23
23.	Clemson	1	0	5	7	7	0	20
24.	Michigan	4	8	2	2	0	2	18
25.	Houston	0	6	0	0	0	6	12

   26. Oklahoma State 10; 27. East Carolina 9; 28. Missouri 7; 29. Long Beach State 6; 30. (tie). Cal Santa Barbara 5; Georgia Tech 5; 32. (tie). Boston College 4; Coastal Carolina 4; Michigan State 4; 35. (tie) Cal State Fullerton 3; College of Charleston 3; 37. (tie) Arizona State 1; Texas Tech 1.

  Poll key: NCBWA -- National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association; BBA -- Baseball America; USAT -- USA TODAY coaches; CB -- Collegiate Baseball; D1 -- D1Baseball.com; PG -- PerfectGame.org

   Points are awarded on a descending scale, from 25 points for a first-place vote to 1 for a 25th-place vote. Some polls ranked more than 25 teams, but I kept it at the top 25 for consistency's sake.

Other rankings
NAIA coaches poll: 1. Faulkner. 7. USC Beaufort
NAIA

NCBWA NCAA Division II
National: 1. Tampa. 11. Lander. 21. USC Aiken.
Southeast region: 1. Columbus. 2. Lander. 4. USC Aiken. 6. Erskine. 8. Newberry. 9. North Greenville.
DII writers 

BlackCollegeNines.com
HBCU small schools: 1. Benedict.
HBCU

PerfectGame.org.
Junior college: 1. Northwest Florida State. 8. Spartanburg Methodist.
PG JC

PerfectGame.org
High school: 1. Coppell (Texas). 21. Mann.
PG HS

Collegiate Baseball
High school: 1. Coppell (Texas). 27. Summerville.
CB HS