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Pitching powers preseason favorite Rice

By Aaron Fitt
Baseball America

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

The preseason Top 25 has a few things in common with the final Top 25 rankings of the 2006 season. For starters, College World Series participants Rice, Clemson and North Carolina begin the new season where they left off: in the top five. Fellow 2006 Omaha team Miami is no longer an upstart and moves up to No. 2. Arkansas, Vanderbilt, Virginia and Wichita State face much loftier expectations this year than they did a year ago, and all four have joined the top 10. As for last year's champion, Ore ...

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