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Thursday, March 28, 2002
Softball ranked
in first NCAA Regional Poll
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Florida International Softball team is ranked in the first regional
poll conducted by the NCAA. The regional poll ranks the top ten
teams in each region every two weeks. The NCAA doesn't rank the
ten teams until the third ranking in four weeks.
FIU is in the Midwest region, one of two schools ranked in
the Sun Belt Conference. Other teams in the top ten are Baylor,
Lousiana-Lafayette (fellow Sun Belt member), Nebraska, Oklahoma,
Oklahoma State, Southern Illinois, Southwest Texas State, Texas
and Texas A&M.
The Golden Panthers sport a 28-22 record, including playing
seven teams ranked in the top 25 of the latest USA Today/NFCA
Top 25 poll. FIU defeated then-No. 14 Iowa twice over the past
weekend at the FAU Parent's Weekend Invitational.
FIU's next opponent will be No. 10 Florida Atlantic on Tuesday,
April 2 at 6:00 p.m. at University Park. |