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FGCU, Texas Tech Enter Rankings • D1Baseball

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2 weeks ago

March 13, 2023

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Rankings
D1 Baseball Staff – March 13, 2023

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LSU remains No. 1 in the D1Baseball Top 25 rankings for the fourth straight week, but there’s a change at No. 2. Stanford tumbled seven spots to No. 9 after a 1-3 week, allowing the next seven teams to each move up one place, led by new No. 2 Tennessee. Ole Miss climbs to No. 3, Wake Forest moves up to No. 4, and Florida rounds out the top five.

East Carolina joins the top 10, moving up two spots from No. 12 after sweeping Liberty. UCLA and Virginia jump three spots apiece to Nos. 13 and 14, respectively, after opening conference play with quality road series wins at Oregon and North Carolina. The Tar Heels fall four spots to No. 18, one place behind Virginia Tech, which drops six spots after losing a home series to Boston College.

Florida Gulf Coast makes its season debut in the rankings, vaulting in at No. 20, one spot ahead of Florida State — a team the Eagles took a road series against last weekend. Texas Tech returns to the rankings at No. 22 after taking two of three at home against Iowa, which drops from No. 23 back out of the rankings. Oregon State also falls out of the Top 25 after losing a home series to Washington State.

NC State, Alabama and Southern Miss cling to the final three spots in the Top 25, as the Wolfpack and Crimson Tide both fell from the ranks of the unbeaten and dropped their weekend series, while the Golden Eagles posted a mediocre 2-2 week but still won their weekend series against Valparaiso.

D1Baseball editors and national writers determine the Top 25 rankings.

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Everything That Has My Attention In Week Seven • D1Baseball

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1 hour ago

March 29, 2023

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Kendall Rogers – March 28, 2023

Another week of college baseball action is in the books, and boy, there’s so much in our game right now that has my attention.

Let’s cut to the chase with analysis on Jacksonville’s Kris Armstrong, Texas, the Big 12 title race, Florida State, Boston College, South Carolina, Washington, Oregon, Ole Miss-Mississippi State, Elon and Grand Canyon:

Jacksonville’s Kris Armstrong is one of the nation’s better stories … We’ve talked a lot about Florida hard-hitting slugger Jac Caglianone so far this season, but how about a former big-time UF power hitter in Kris Armstrong. Armstrong showed a ton of promise for[…]

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Mid-Majors, South Carolina’s Rise, and Much More – Weekend 6 Recap

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4 hours ago

March 28, 2023

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The D1Baseball Podcast
D1 Baseball Staff – March 28, 2023

Welcome back to The D1Baseball Podcast, your go-to source for all things college baseball. In this episode, we’ll be diving into a wide range of topics from week six of the 2023 season, including:

The impact of the pitch clock on the season thus far
An in-depth look at UTSA amid its strong start
The postseason outlook for Grand Canyon and other mid-majors
Ole Miss and Mississippi State’s slow starts to SEC play
An examination of the SEC East and West divisions and how many wins it might take to win the league’s regular-season title
A spotlight on South Carolina
A recap of the Arkansas-LSU series
An update on the ACC, including a look at Louisville’s pitching staff, Wake Forest’s continued dominance and Boston College
A breakdown of the Big 12, featuring notes on Texas and Oklahoma State
Analysis of the Pac-12, headlined by USC and potential Omaha sleeper Washington

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Top 50 Relief Pitchers • D1Baseball

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March 28, 2023

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Aaron Fitt – March 28, 2023

With six weeks in the books, we’re more than a third of the way through the 2023 college baseball season, so it’s time to update our Player Rankings. When we put together our Preseason All-America teams, we followed one guiding principle: If we were building a team to win the 2023 national title, which players would we choose? We use the same philosophy to construct our Power Rankings.

Now we have six weeks of performance to draw upon, and we took early-season statistics into consideration, but we also tried to keep the numbers in context, because some leagues or ballparks[…]

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