LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Washington enters its sixth straight week as the No. 1 team in the USA Today/NFCA Division I Top 25 Coaches Poll. The Huskies (32-2) earned 25 first-place votes and 786 points. With top-10 programs getting swept in league play and another dropping the first two games of a series, it made room for No. 8 Arizona State and No. 9 South Carolina.
Bouncing back from a defeat last Monday at Arizona State, Washington returned to Seattle to sweep then-No. 9 Arizona (2-1, 4-3, 2-0) in a tightly contested Pac-12 series that saw the first two contests go into extra innings.
Oklahoma, who ran through Texas Tech in its Big 12 opening series, moved up to No. 2 grabbing six first-place votes and 762 points. Extending their winning streak to 19 games, the Sooners (28-2) opened the week edging CSUN, 2-1 in 11 innings. They returned home and outscored the Red Raiders, 35-1 in a three-game sweep.
UCLA (27-2), who picked up the final first-place vote, also improved one spot to No. 3 taking the first two games against RV Oregon State (3-2, 5-3). No. 4 Florida (26-3) jumped two positions to No. 4 after topping USF (9-0) and then-No. 8 Texas A&M (6-1, 10-0) at home.
Idle Oregon stayed at No. 5, while Georgia moved up to No. 6. Tennessee dropped from No. 2 to No. 7 after being swept by new-No. 9 South Carolina, who made the biggest jump of the week from No. 16. The Gamecocks (28-4) outscored the Lady Vols (30-4), 28-16 in Columbia.
Arizona State catapulted from No. 12 to No. 8 and has started Pac-12 play 5-1 following a road sweep of then-No. 20 California (4-2 in 10, 3-1 in 10, 4-0). The Sun Devils (27-4) began the week with a 2-0 win over No. 1 Washington to take the series from the Huskies.
Auburn returns at No. 10 following a SEC series sweep of No. 19 Kentucky (3-1, 1-0 in 12, 6-4).
Arkansas is back in the top 25 at No. 23, while Texas State dropped out from the No. 25 position.
The 2018 USA Today/NFCA Division I Top 25 Poll is voted on by 32 NCAA Division I head coaches, one representing each conference. Records reflect games played through March 25.
2018 USA Today / NFCA Division I
Top 25 Coaches Poll – March 27 (Week 7)
Rank
School
Totals
2018
Last Poll
1
Washington (25)
786
32-2
1
2
Oklahoma (6)
762
28-2
3
3
UCLA (1)
734
27-2
4
4
Florida
689
26-3
6
5
Oregon
679
25-5
5
6
Georgia
620
29-3
7
7
Tennessee
565
30-4
2
8
Arizona State
548
27-4
12
9
South Carolina
516
28-4
16
10
Auburn
505
31-6
11
11
Arizona
485
24-6
9
12
Texas A&M
465
29-6
8
13
LSU
458
26-5
10
14
Florida State
397
26-6
14
15
Baylor
342
20-6
13
16
Alabama
330
22-8
15
17
Michigan
253
24-7
17
18
Long Beach State
217
26-7
22
19
Kentucky
186
19-9
19
20
Mississippi State
180
27-6
23
21
Louisiana
162
20-7
21
22
California
134
24-8
20
23
Arkansas
100
25-6
RV
24
Ohio State
65
19-7
18
25
Oklahoma State
61
23-8
24
New to Poll: No. 23 Arkansas
Dropped Out: No. 25 Texas State (22-8)
Receiving Votes: Texas State (27), Hofstra (24), Nebraska (22), Ole Miss (20), Memphis (20), Oregon State (11), Kennesaw State (11), Northwestern (8), Louisville (6), Notre Dame (4), FGCU (3), James Madison (2), BYU (1) North Dakota State (1), Wichita State (1).
The 2018 USA Today / NFCA Division I Top 25 Coaches Poll is voted on by 32 NCAA Division I head coaches with one representing each of the NCAA’s Division I Conferences. Records reflect play through March 25, 2018