Recapping a wild first two weeks of college softball w/ D1Softball's Tara Henry
The top four remains the same after the fourth week of college softball with Oklahoma, UCLA, Oklahoma State and Clemson on top. Tennessee and Florida State flip-flopped this week following an undefeated weekend for Tennessee and a 1-0 win over Clemson the previous week.
No. 6 Florida State will take on No. 3 Oklahoma State in a three-game series next week for a top-10 battle.
Arizona State is the only new-entrant to the poll this week.
Here is the full Week 3 ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25 poll (based on games through March 6):
|
RANK |
TEAM |
RECORD |
POINTS |
PREVIOUS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oklahoma (25) | 17-1 | 625 | 1 |
| 2 | UCLA | 22-1 | 599 | 2 |
| 3 | Oklahoma State | 18-1 | 567 | 3 |
| 4 | Clemson | 20-1 | 545 | 4 |
| 5 | Tennessee | 16-1 | 510 | 6 |
| 6 | Florida State | 20-3 | 504 | 5 |
| 7 | Arkansas | 19-3 | 472 | 7 |
| 8 | Stanford | 19-2 | 449 | 8 |
| 9 | Alabama | 17-3 | 419 | 9 |
| 10 | Texas | 17-2-1 | 379 | 11 |
| 11 | Washington | 18-3 | 348 | 12 |
| 12 | Florida | 14-3 | 337 | 10 |
| 13 | Virginia Tech | 14-4 | 321 | 13 |
| 14 | LSU | 20-1 | 316 | 15 |
| 15 | Duke | 17-4 | 297 | 14 |
| T-16 | Kentucky | 12-5-1 | 216 | T-16 |
| T-16 | Baylor | 17-2 | 216 | 19 |
| 18 | Georgia | 17-5 | 209 | T-16 |
| 19 | Oregon | 16-4 | 162 | 20 |
| 20 | Arizona | 15-6 | 160 | 18 |
| 21 | Auburn | 20-2 | 143 | 21 |
| 22 | Northwestern | 9-7 | 64 | 22 |
| 23 | Missouri | 15-6 | 49 | 23 |
| T-24 | Louisiana | 13-8 | 42 | 24 |
| T-24 | Arizona State | 15-3 | 42 | NR |
