Florida Unanimous at No. 1

 

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – For the first time this season, one team is unanimously No. 1 as Florida (62-2) earned 20 first-place votes on the way to the top ranking in the nation according to the ESPN.com/USA Softball Top 25 Collegiate Poll announced today by the Amateur Softball Association.  The Gators, with only one SEC loss, won the SEC Tournament just a week out of being crowned the SEC regular season Champions.

 

Florida went 3-0 during the tournament including wins over then No.14 Tennessee, 6-1, and then No.4 Alabama, 4-1 to win their first-ever SEC Tournament title. Texas A&M (49-7) jumped into the top five, switching places with No.6 Michigan, after they clinched the Big 12 Tournament with a 3-0 record. Michigan went one and out at the Big Ten Tournament with a 2-1 loss to Michigan State after being named Co-Champions of the Big Ten regular season title.

 

No. 2 Arizona State (56-5) also made history as they clinched their first-ever Pac-10 Championship with a 5-2 victory over #25 California (40-21). ASU went 2-1 on the week including opening up play with a 2-1 loss to then No. 8 Stanford.

 

No. 10 Northwestern (37-13), No. 17 Virginia Tech (44-15), No. 18 ULL (46-12), No. 21 UMass (39-11) and No. 23 DePaul (48-16) round out the teams in the Top 25 who won their Conference Tournaments, earning an automatic NCAA regional bid.

 

This is the last regular season poll of the year. The final poll of the year will be released June 10 after the NCAA Women’s College World Series.  

 

ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25

May 13 – May 5-11

 

Rank	Team	Record	Points	PVS
1.	Florida (20)	62-2	500	1
2.	Arizona State	56-5	471	2
3	UCLA	45-7	451	3
4.	Alabama	51-6	445	4
5	Texas A&M	49-7	425	6
6	Michigan	48-6	388	5
7.	Arizona	36-16	364	9
8.	Oklahoma	43-11	353	7
9.	Stanford	46-12	346	8
10.	Northwestern	37-13	312	12
11.	Houston	50-9	305	11
12.	Fresno State	51-11	267	10
13.	Tennessee	47-14	231	14
14.	LSU	42-16	224	15
15.	North Carolina	50-10-1	217	13
16.	Virginia Tech	44-15	193	17
17.	ULL	46-12	185	18
18.	Long Beach St.	39-15	181	16
19.	San Diego St.	43-15	147	19
20.	UMass	39-11	119	21
21.	DePaul	48-16	90	23
22.	Nevada	42-16	82	20
23.	Hawaii	34-18	46	22
24.	Washington	28-23-1	33	24
25.	California	40-21	30	25

 

Parenthesis Denotes first place votes.

 

Others receiving votes: Mississippi State (19), South Florida (18), Hofstra (15), Georgia (13), Creighton (10), Missouri (10), BYU (5), Central Florida (2), Iowa (2) and Louisiana Tech (1).

 SPY NOTE: Each of the teams who received votes including the last ten received NCAA berths.