NCBWA 2006 Season News

There is a new number one team in this week’s NCBWA Division II Top 25 poll, with Colorado Mesa collecting 15 of the 20 first-place votes to sit atop the Division II rankings for the first time this season. Mesa is 34-3 overall, moving up one spot after ranking second last in last week’s poll.

Denison (19-1) received 24 first-place votes to remain the top team in the latest D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25. Lynchburg remains number two followed by Johns Hopkins (with the only other first place vote), Salve Regina and Shenandoah. New this week are Mary Washington and Texas Lutheran and Centre dropped out this week.

Denison remains the number one team this week for the fourth straight week after a sweep of NWC teams. The Big Red received 24 first place votes with Salve Regina getting the final first place nod.

Denison remains the number one team this week for the third straight week followed by Johns Hopkins, Lynchburg, Salve Regina and Salisbury. New this week are Kalamazoo, Cal Lutheran and Randolph-Macon. Randolph-Macon was the only team to be ranked previously this year. Gone this week are Case Western Reserve, Rhodes and UW-Oshkosh.

There is a new number one team in the country for the first time this season, with Pittsburg State taking over the top spot in the week five NCBWA Division II top 25 poll, which was released Wednesday afternoon. Off to a 19-1 start on the season, Pittsburg State picked up 11 of the 20 first-place votes.

Denison becomes the third team to reach the top spot in the D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25 this week. Six other schools also received at least one first place vote. The top ranked teams to start the season undefeated are No. 4 Belhaven (12-0) and No. 6 Washington University (9-0).

The back-to-back defending national champion Tampa Spartans are still the top-ranked team in the NCBWA Division II top 25 poll, with the week four poll coming out Wednesday afternoon. Tampa was the preseason number one, while ranking first in each of the first three in-season polls. The Spartans are off to a 14-1 start, receiving all 14 of 20 first-place votes.

The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA polls with the NCBWA/D3baseball.com Division III Poll.

The back-to-back defending national champion Tampa Spartans are the top-ranked team in this week’s NCBWA Division II top 25 poll. Tampa was the preseason number one, while ranking first in each of the first three in-season polls. The Spartans are off to an 11-0 start, receiving all 20 first-place votes.

The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA polls with the NCBWA/D3baseball.com Division III Poll.

The back-to-back defending national champion Tampa Spartans are the top-ranked team in this week’s NCBWA Division II top 25 poll. Tampa was the preseason number one, while ranking first in each of the first two in-season polls. The Spartans are off to an 8-0 start, receiving all 20 first-place votes.

Off to a 5-0 start to the 2026 season, the back-to-back national champion Tampa Spartans remain the number one team in the NCBWA Division II Top 25, which was released Wednesday morning. The Spartans received 19 of the 20 first-place votes, after being the unanimous number one team in the preseason poll. 

As the 168th season of NCAA Division I baseball begins Friday, Feb. 13, the 2026 National Collegiate Baseball Writers Preseason All-America teams (25th annual) reflect the large talent pool for national championship contenders as they strive for places in the 79th NCAA World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, beginning on June 12.

The 2026 NCBWA Division II Preseason All-America Team.

The 2024 and 2025 national champion University of Tampa Spartans are the top-ranked team in the NCBWA preseason Division II baseball top 25 poll, which was released Wednesday afternoon. The Spartans went 55-10 in 2025, after posting a 52-8 record in 2024. Tampa received all 20 first-place votes in the preseason national poll.

For the first time in its storied history, the National Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) will add the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) to its weekly polls and player of the week selections.

The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA polls with the NCBWA/D3baseball.com Division III Poll.

The most productive two-way player in Division I this season, University of Houston junior All-American Brad Lincoln has been voted the recipient of the 20th annual Dick Howser Trophy as the 2006 college baseball player of the year. Lincoln was honored in a ceremony this morning in Omaha, prior to the start of the College World Series.

University of Kansas relief pitcher Don Czyz has been named the 2006 winner of the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association's Stopper of the Year Award, the association announced Thursday. The award honors the top relief pitcher in college baseball.

Five standouts chosen from an outstanding Five finalists have been named for the second annual National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Stopper of the Year Award, the association announced Thursday.field