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ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25 Preseason Poll released

| January 29, 2013 at 4:35 pm | 0 Comments

The ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25 preseason poll was released on Tuesday. Following is the complete poll, courtesy of SEC Digital Network.

The top four preseason rankings identically match 2012′s final rankings, and Alabama is once again in the top spot.

Rank

Team

2012 Record

Points

Final 2012 Ranking

1.

Alabama (13)

60-8

490

1

2.

Oklahoma (7)

54-10

486

2

3.

California

58-7

449

3

4.

Arizona State

53-11

445

4

5.

Tennessee

52-14

414

7

6.

Oregon

45-18

390

5

7.

Missouri

47-14

346

11

8.

Georgia

45-17

332

10

9.

Texas

47-13

297

12

10.

South Florida

50-14

285

8

11.

Louisiana-Lafayette

53-6

272

9

12.

LSU

40-25

263

6

13.

Michigan

42-17

233

15

14.

Arizona

38-19

226

13

15.

Florida

48-13

225

16

16.

Washington

39-19

213

14

17.

Texas A&M

41-18

195

19

18.

Louisville

55-5

188

18

19.

UCLA

36-20

144

21

20.

Stanford

40-19

131

20

21.

North Carolina

43-15

69

25

T22.

Baylor

34-22

67

RV

T22.

Hofstra

42-15

67

17

24.

Florida State

47-16

66

22

25.

Hawaii

44-9

44

23

Parenthesis denotes first place votes.

Dropped Out: None
New to Poll: None

Others receiving votes: Notre Dame (24); Syracuse (23); Kentucky (20); Georgia Tech (18); Virginia Tech (17); Tulsa (14); Texas Tech (12); Mississippi State (9); Oregon State (8); Northwestern (7); Oklahoma State (3); Central Florida (3); South Alabama (2); UMASS (2); BYU (1)

MORE RANKINGS: USA Today/NFCA Division I Top 25 Preseason Poll released
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