For those interested, the NJCAA has published their pre-season baseball polls:

NJCAA DI Poll

NJCAA DII Poll

NJCAA DIII Poll

This rankings do not mean a lot because the CA and NW JC's are not included as they do not participate in the National Championship.

Majorkahuna,

I was unaware the CA and NW JUCO's were not included. I agree, people from these areas would not find this information useful.

However, the majority of JUCO's in the USA would be covered by this poll. I posted them because I felt people who are either attending or are considering attending a participating institution may find this information useful. Maybe you could create another topic covering the rankings of non-participating institutions.

When the majority of the sanctioned junior college programs play under one association and a few (cali and wash) do not any news about the majority is relevant to these forums. California opted to go their own direction many years ago.

Majorkahuna .... Your post is similar to saying that NAIA polls or information "does not mean a lot" becuase it is the NAIA.

Please lighten up.

Bob,
"Doing nothing is still a course of action"

Major, no pre-season poll really "means a lot"....what with there not having been any games played and all. They're a bit of fun in anticipation of the season, and an excuse for both lively discussion and locker room speeches by coaches motivating their players to either live up to or prove wrong this pre-season hype.

Bob, you can't mean California has, shall we say, deviated from the norm on this??? There's something new and different!

Big, here's another poll.

Collegiate Baseball NJCAA D1

Interestingly, there is some crossover, though few in the same spots. My favorite part of the NJCAA poll was their refering to Seminole State(sic) FL in the intro paragraph, but actually listing Seminole State OK on the poll. Collegiate Baseball ranks the FL school only. Go figure.

As we all know, baseball isn't played on paper. It's the post-season results that count.

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You missed my point folks. Last year in the USA Today rankings the top JC in the nation was Sacramento CC. Also Columbia Basin College in WA was in the top 10. CA chose to go their own way because of the number of JC's in the state. The NW schools are ineligible because they use WOOD bats. Of course this attracts a lot of talent that want to show off for the pro scouts with wood or pitching against wood.

I am surprised there are not many FL JUCOs in the polls. Some of the top teams from last year are no longer even listed. They usually have strong teams with many "draft and follows". Any info from JUCO players in FL on the outlook for their teams this season?

Major,

I understand your point, but don't blame the rest of the US because of what CA does. I agree there are many great JUCO's in CA.

I doubt that the reason the WA schools are ineligible is because of wood. There are several conferences that now use wood. Not sure the name of it, but the one with Dixie, SNCC etc...has been wood for quite some time.

I heard the league in AZ is going or has gone to wood. I believe the CO league is also going wood this year.

Frank

PASSION - "There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those."

The conference with Dixie and Southern Nevada is the Scenic West Athletic Conference or SWAC. Good baseball played there.

GO UTES!

Well, you know, the name of this topic is NJCAA pre-season polls. I don't reckon this would apply to the COA or the NWAACC. These rankings certainly are relevant to the 182 member schools belonging to Div. 1, the 130 of Div. 2, and the 84 of Div. 3.These polls are irrelevant if your school is a member of the COA. The Columbia Basin College will not make the list on any polls published by the NJCAA, as that school is not a member of the NJCAA. That school could very well rank quite highly in USA Today junior college polls.

Along with the SWAC, the ACCAC (Arizona Community College Athletic Conference) is using wood bats. Each of these conferences are of the NJCAA.

The league in Colorado is wood this year.

Brice