According to the ESPN.com/USA Softball Top 25 Collegiate Poll, Arizona State is again the top team in the nation announced today by the Amateur Softball Association. Competing in one of the toughest conference in the nation, Arizona State (52-3) has gone an impressive 14-1 in Pac 10 Conference play.

The Sun Devils, with 16 first-place votes, swept the Oregon schools this past weekend with a 4-1 win over Oregon State and two wins over Oregon, 6-1 and 9-0. No. 2 Florida (56-2) and No.3 Alabama (46-3) both went undefeated with Florida completing a sweep over Auburn and Alabama going 3-0 in non-conference play.

No. 12 Tennessee (46-10) fell out of the top 10 after going 1-1 against T23 Mississippi State while Fresno State (45-8) moved to No. 9 after sweeping Hawaii, with two games battling into extra innings.

There were no new teams in the Top 25 with Hawaii (33-16) making the biggest drop from 19 in last week’s poll to this week a tie for 23^rd. Hawaii is currently on a six-game WAC losing streak over the past two weeks.

ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25

April 29 – April 21-27

Rank	Team	Record	Points	PVS
1.	Arizona St. (16)	52-3	493	1
2.	Florida (3)	56-2	478	2
3	Alabama (1)	46-3	461	3
4.	UCLA	41-5	444	4
5	Michigan	43-5	411	5
6	Texas A&M	45-7	409	6
7.	Oklahoma	41-11	357	9
8.	Stanford	42-10	342	7
9.	Fresno State	45-8	327	11
10.	Arizona	31-15	321	8
11.	Northwestern	32-11	307	12
12.	Tennessee	46-10	285	10
13.	Houston	44-7	275	13
14.	North Carolina	49-9-1	239	14
15.	Long Beach St.	36-12	220	15
16.	LSU	38-14	195	16
17.	ULL	39-10	174	17
18.	Virginia Tech	40-14	145	18
19.	San Diego State	37-15	87	20
20.	UMass	33-11	85	24
21.	Washington	26-18-1	76	21
22.	Nevada	34-14	73	25
T23.	Mississippi St.	39-17	67	23
T23.	Hawaii	33-16	67	19
25.	Cal	37-20	51	22

Parenthesis Denotes first place votes.

 

Others receiving votes: Missouri (38), DePaul (28), Creighton (19), Georgia (14), Hofstra (7), South Florida (3), BYU (1) and Oregon (1).