Collegiate Baseball Div. I Poll 12-20-16

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College Baseball Newspaper Preseason Poll

1. TCU (49-18)
2. LSU (45-21)
3. Florida (52-16)
4. South Carolina (46-18)
5. Oregon State (35-19)
6. Vanderbilt (43-19)
7. Arizona (49-24)
8. Miami (FL) (50-14)
9. Florida State (41-22)
10. Cal State-Fullerton (36-23)
11. Louisville (50-14)
12. Clemson (44-20)
13. East Carolina (38-23-1)
14. Louisiana-Lafayette (43-21)
15. North Carolina (34-21)
16. Virginia (38-22)
17. Long Beach State (38-22)
18. UC-Santa Barbara (43-20-1)
19. Coastal Carolina (55-18)
20. Texas A&M (49-16)
21. Washington (33-23)
22. Mississippi (43-19)
23. Sam Houston State (42-22)
24. Stanford (31-23)
25. Arizona State (36-23)
26. Dallas Baptist (44-19)
27. Rice (38-24)
28. Oklahoma State (43-22)
29. Texas Tech (47-20)
30. Texas (25-32)
31. North Carolina State (38-22)
32. Michigan (36-21)
33. Nebraska (37-22)
34. Tulane (41-21)
35. Houston (36-23)
36. Southeastern Louisiana (40-21)
37. Gonzaga (36-21)
38. Georgia Tech (38-25)
39. Kent State (44-14)
40. Florida Atlantic (39-19)

Others Receiving Votes
New Mexico, West Virginia, Utah, Southern Mississippi, Wake Forest, Fresno State, UC-Irvine, Maryland, Central Florida, Oklahoma, Cal Poly, UCLA, Nevada, UNLV, San Diego State, Oregon, USC, California, Washington State, Auburn, Mississippi State, Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee, South Alabama, Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Georgia Southern, Troy, Arkansas-Little Rock, Texas State, BYU, San Diego, Pepperdine, St. Mary's, San Francisco, New Mexico State, Oral Roberts, Seattle, Grand Canyon, Michigan State, Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio State, Illinois, Iowa, Western Michigan, Central Michigan, Missouri State, Southern Illinois, Ball State, Louisiana Tech, North Carolina-Wilmington, Morehead State, Kennesaw State, Florida Gulf Coast, North Florida, Lipscomb, Rhode Island, St. Joseph's, Virginia Commonwealth, Xavier, Creighton, Seton Hall, St. John's, Gardner-Webb, High Point, College of Charleston, William & Mary, Wright State, Princeton, Dartmouth, Fairfield, Miami (OH), Florida A&M, Alabama State, Indiana State, Wichita State, Bryant, Southeast Missouri State, Austin Peay, Jacksonville State, Tennessee Tech, Navy, Lehigh, Mercer, North Carolina-Greensboro, Western Carolina, Lamar, McNeese State

http://baseballnews.com/collegiate-baseball-2017-pre-season-poll-12-19-16/

Go Hoosiers!

 

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Perfect Season 2017 Preseason College Top 25

Welcome to the first Top 25 team rankings for the 2017 college baseball season and thanks to our friends at Rawlings for presenting our 2017 college baseball content. Listed below are the Top 25 teams, a list assembled by Perfect Game's Patrick Ebert, Mike Rooney and Jheremy Brown.

For the third year in a row the No. 1 team was an absolute unanimous vote among the Perfect Game staff with Texas Christian getting the nod to open the 2017 season in the top spot. With five Preseason All-Americans (Luken Baker, Elliott Barzilli, Durbin Feltman, Brian Howard and Evan Skoug), 22 players that returned from last year's College World Series squad and another strong recruiting class, the Horned Frogs are poised for a huge season as they look to return to Omaha for the fourth consecutive year.

Jeff Dahn will have a feature on Head Coach Jim Schlossnagle and his Horned Frogs on Thursday.

The four teams ranked after TCU were almost as unanimously agreed upon, even if the order varied from one staff member to the next. We do recognize that having seven teams (No. 7 Oregon State, No. 12 North Carolina, No. 16 Stanford, No. 17 Texas, No. 20 Houston, No. 22 Cal Poly, No. 23 Maryland) to open the year in the Top 25 that did not make last year's postseason may seem odd but we are confident each of those seven programs enjoys significantly better outcomes during the 2017 season. Considering that half of the field in Omaha in 2014 (TCU, Texas, Texas Tech and UC Irvine) didn't make the postseason the season before, it certainly isn't a stretch to imagine so many dramatic turnaround seasons.

We will make more sense of those decisions next Tuesday (Jan. 17) when we will follow up the Top 25 ranking with detailed capsules of each of the 25 teams. The day after that (Wed., Jan. 18) we will provide the teams ranked 26-40 along with a brief synopsis of each program.

Breakdown by conference:

SEC: 5 teams (Louisiana State, Florida, South Carolina, Mississippi, Vanderbilt)
ACC: 5 teams (Florida State, Louisville, North Carolina, NC State, Clemson)
Pac-12: 4 teams (Oregon State, Stanford, Washington, Arizona)
Big 12: 3 teams (Texas Christian, Oklahoma State, Texas)
American Athletic: 2 teams (East Carolina, Houston)
Sun Belt: 2 teams (Louisiana, Coastal Carolina)
Big West: 2 teams (Cal State Fullerton, Cal Poly)
Conference USA: 1 team (Rice)
Big Ten: 1 team (Maryland)

Similar to past years we will update the Top 25 team rankings every Monday morning during the regular season. Stay tuned to Perfect Game and be sure to Like Perfect Game's College Baseball page on Facebook and follow PG on Twitter for all of the latest information:

1. TCU (49-18)
2. LSU (45-21)
3. Florida State (41-22)
4. Florida (52-16)
5. South Carolina (46-18)
6. Louisville (50-14)
7. Oregon State (35-19)
8. Mississippi (43-19)
9. Vanderbilt (43-19)
10. East Carolina (38-23-1)
11. Oklahoma State (43-22)
12. North Carolina (34-21)
13. Louisiana-Lafayette (43-21)
14. North Carolina State (38-22)
15. Cal State-Fullerton (36-23)
16. Stanford (31-23)
17. Texas (25-32)
18. Washington (33-23)
19. Clemson (44-20)
20. Houston (36-23)
21. Rice (38-24)
22. Cal Poly (32-25)
23. Maryland (30-27)
24. Coastal Carolina (55-17)
25. Arizona (49-24)

Others Receiving Votes
Texas A&M, Virginia, Sam Houston State, Georgia Tech, Miami (FL)

http://www.perfectgame.org/Articles/View.aspx?article=13435

Go Hoosiers!