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52 minutes ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Goddamn dude, we know. Fuck. 

What? I like to have a place where all of the links are consolidated. That way if anyone wants to do their own deep dive into the rankings, or look at another team, or whatever, they don't have to go searching for the 5 different polls that rank teams.

You don't like it? Fucking scroll past it. Is this not the NCAA baseball thread where we can post things about, idk, NCAA baseball?

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6 hours ago, TheBryMan81 said:

Rankings update

Texas is the UNANIMOUS #1 team in the country. Who saw this coming in year 1 of Schloss?

Rest of the rankings

Baseball America

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/college-baseball-top-25-rankings/

D1 Baseball

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/baseball/d1/d1baseballcom-top-25

Perfect Game 

https://www.perfectgame.org/Articles/View.aspx?article=23562&src=hmrep

USA Today Coaches Poll 

https://sportsdata.usatoday.com/baseball/cbb/coaches-poll

NCBWA

https://www.sportswriters.net/ncbwa/news/2025/04/14/texas-29-5-tops-ncbwa-division-i-poll

 

Our next series opponent is Auburn coming in at 6, 7, 8, 8, 9.

UTRGV hanging on with a "Others Receiving Votes" in the NCBWA poll!

Larry David Hbo GIF by Curb Your Enthusiasm

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Why the hell did Kansas State go to Massachusetts for two midweek games @Northeastern?  

(And they lost both.)

They had a home series last weekend and are @KU this weekend.

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11 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

Why the hell did Kansas State go to Massachusetts for two midweek games @Northeastern?  

 

I think because Pete Hughes coached at Northeastern early in his career and is from the area.    Recruits the area, has a couple of players on current roster now and in the past from nearby.

Not good timing,  suppose weather is a factor in scheduling prior to conference play.

 

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Duke shellacked Pitt 9-1 to keep their CWS dreams on track. Lovely tiny on campus stadium. Ex-Southlake Carroll Dragon pitcher Owen Proksch pitched 6 shutout innings for the Blue Devils.

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The top of this week's D1 poll:

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I think us killing the gauntlet myth has helped break the stranglehold the secsecsec has had on the top 5 all season.  "They all just beat each other up...except Texas" doesn't have the same ring.

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Relative posts from D1 Chat.

 

Does all the SEC insanity among the teams...Aggies zippo, then suddenly on fire, Florida flaming out, but trying to get back in it, LSU in a gumbo of weird weekends, Arkansas, etc. etc....does this make for a more exciting season down the stretch or ....is Texas really possibly gonna win the whole damn thing? Please, please not the latter

.I think it makes for a very exciting gumbo, to borrow your word. I think this thing is wide open -- and that's no disrespect to Texas, which has had the best season through 10 weeks and is 100 percent deserving of being ranked No. 1. Certainly Texas could win the whole thing, but so could a bunch of other teams, and certainly Jared Spencer's injury status going forward is important. Horns keep on finding ways to win despite injuries, but man that would be another very big blow

Who do you like in the Lone Star Showdown this weekend? A&M is coming in hot, but other teams (Georgia, Auburn) have come into Austin on a hot streak and hit a wall

Great question. I do think A&M is playing like an elite team, and I also am certain Jared Spencer will not pitch this weekend against the Aggies. However, I think I still lean the Horns at home. I love their overall vibe and they just seem to keep having guys step up when someone goes down. Maybe Spencer being out will be different? For now, I'm still all in on those guys. I'll say Texas 2/3.

After that series win over Arkansas is Texas A&M in the hosting discussion if they keep winning?

If they win the LSU and Texas series, you can start having that discussion. But until then ....

How and when will we know the number of scholarships each program is deciding to fund next season?

Once the house settlement is approved by Judge Wilken (hopefully in the next week?), we will have a lot more clarity. I think once that happens you'll start to see those dominoes fall. I'm fascinated to see what each league allows. I do think there's a groundswell of momentum toward the major leagues allowing their individual schools to do whatever the heck they want, which is good.

Are the Vols in trouble in terms of hosting...what do they have to do the rest of the season to make darn sure they host.

I think the Vols are still in solid shape as of today, but I do have some concerns about them right now. It felt like the bullpen was vulnerable over the weekend, while Tegan Kuhns struggled in his start. That's now three-straight starts where Kuhns couldn't get out of the third inning. That's problematic for me. I'm still buying stock in this time, but they've definitely taken a step back as of late.

The state of baseball at UH is painful to watch and the stunt they tried to pull yesterday was embarrassing. Not asking you to bag on a coach, but what needs to happen for that program to get back to competing for regionals? It feels like a much better job than what the results have shown lately.

I think Houston is a really, really good job, especially if you can get some influential donors involved in the NIL space. There's just so much natural homegrown talent in Houston -- talent levels at a program like that should be in a very, very good spot. In addition, I do think that facility as a whole needs some upgrades. The player facilities at UH are fantastic, but the facility itself could use an upgrade. I don't feel like it's fan friendly. I think UH is a sleeping giant.

 

If DVH never wins a national title do you think he will be the best coach to never get a title?

There's a man named Mike Martin that was pretty good. He would be second on that list.

 

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4 hours ago, WBT said:

I think us killing the gauntlet myth has helped break the stranglehold the secsecsec has had on the top 5 all season.  "They all just beat each other up...except Texas" doesn't have the same ring.

aggy: "I told you they'd ruin everything" 

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1 hour ago, TrashMaster G said:

What was the "stunt" that UH pulled?

Per OkSt fan board,  Sunday game (9-1 OkSt) was called after 4.5 innings due to weather and UH travel schedule.   Game included a 67 minute weather delay.   No details,  but Whiting went way overboard in stall tactics to try to prevent game becoming official as another weather front was moving in.   Criticized by his own fan base as well.

https://brobible.com/sports/article/houston-baseball-coach-ejected-oklahoma-state/

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Losing a series at home to Kentucky for a second consecutive home series loss makes it look like Tennesse is slipping some.

Getting throttled by the Wildcats 8-2 in the third game is a bad loss.

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Weekly The Athletic writeup

Spoiler

College baseball week in review: Statement sweep by Vanderbilt, Miami on the move

By Mitch Light

April 21, 2025 7:50 am CDT

Few teams enjoyed a more productive weekend than Vanderbilt, which swept Georgia in Nashville to improve to 30-10 overall and 11-7 in the SEC.

Pitching was the story for the Commodores, who limited the powerful Georgia offense to a .179 batting average and 10 runs in the three games. The Bulldogs did hit five home runs — they lead the nation with 105 — but three were solo shots and one came on Friday night when Vanderbilt led by 10 runs.

On Thursday night, JD Thompson gave up a home run to leadoff hitter Slate Alford but then held Georgia scoreless until turning the ball over to closer Sawyer Hawks to start the ninth inning. On Saturday, Connor Fennell, a sophomore transfer from Dayton, allowed three hits and two runs while striking out 11 with no walks in 5 ⅔ innings. Fennell, who rarely (if ever) touches 90 on the radar gun, has struck out 48.1 percent of the batters he’s faced this season — a number that would lead the nation if he had enough innings to qualify.

The Commodores, with an RPI of No. 3 and a 13 Quad 1 wins (second-most nationally), should be a Regional host in all bracket projections this week.

Around the horn

Here comes Miami.

Three weeks ago, the Hurricanes were 2-7 in the ACC after losing a series at North Carolina. Now, J.D. Arteaga’s club is 24-17 overall and 9-9 in the league after a dominant sweep over surging Georgia Tech in Coral Gables.

The Canes allowed a total of six runs — two in each game — to a Yellow Jackets offense that leads the league in batting average (.331) and runs scored (9.4 per game).

Miami’s RPI climbed nearly 30 spots in one week, from No. 65 to No. 36. The Canes travel to Boston College next weekend with an opportunity to climb over. 500 in the league for the first time this season.

The secret to Texas’ success in its first season in the SEC: dominant pitching.

The Longhorns’ ERA in league games is 3.09, more than a full run lower than the No. 2 team (LSU, 4.41). They also lead the SEC in batting average against (.218), WHIP (1.150) and home runs allowed (15).

Perhaps most impressive: Texas has allowed five runs or fewer in 15 of 18 SEC games.

The Horns are 16-2 in the SEC, three games up on Arkansas. They host red-hot Texas A&M next week and then travel to Arkansas.

Oklahoma run-ruled Missouri three times en route to an emphatic sweep in Columbia. The Sooners combined for 23 extra-base hits (45 hits total) en route to wins of 17-4, 17-4 and 17-7.

OU has won six of its last seven games and averaged 13.3 runs in those six wins, after scoring a total of five runs in a four-game losing streak to LSU (three games) and Dallas Baptist (one game).

Meanwhile, the numbers are horrific for Missouri, now 0-18 in the SEC, with eight of the last nine losses coming via the run rule.

In league games, the Tigers are last in batting average (.220) and batting average against (.360), runs scored (72) and runs allowed (214), and OPS (.675) and OPS against (1.175).

The most alarming number: 13.43 ERA in SEC play. For some context, the two worst team ERAs in the conference (league games only) over the last 10 seasons are 9.54 by Mississippi State in 2023 and 7.62 by Auburn in 2024.

Remember this catch from Cam Cannarella in the Clemson Super Regional last June?

Well, the stakes weren’t quite as high, but Cannarella delivered another spectacular moment Saturday afternoon.

Clemson went on to lose the game (8-6 in 12 innings) but took the series from Louisville with wins of 7-6 on Thursday and 2-1 on Friday.

Clemson and Texas are the only two teams in the top three RPI conferences (SEC, ACC and Big 12) that have not lost a weekend series in league play.

On Saturday afternoon, Yale freshman Jack Ohman allowed one earned run in 6 ⅔ innings in a 7-4 win over Penn. And his ERA almost doubled. That’s what happens when you have given up only one earned run in 47 ⅓ innings.

The right-hander from Mesa, Ariz., leads the nation with a microscopic 0.33 ERA — the next best is 1.75 from Middle Tennessee sophomore Drew Horn — and ranks fifth in WHIP at 0.850.

His stat line two-thirds of the way through his first season of college baseball: 54 innings, 31 hits, eight runs, two earned runs, 62 strikeouts and 15 walks.

Oregon won two of three vs. UCLA in a pivotal Big Ten series. On Sunday, in the deciding Game 3, junior outfielder Mason Neville drilled a three-run home run in the bottom of the fourth to give the Ducks a 6-4 lead. It was Neville’s 19th home run, giving him the national lead and setting the Oregon single-season record.

Iowa, which swept Michigan on the road over the weekend, remains in first place in the Big Ten with a 17-4 league record. UCLA is 2.5 games back at 13-4, and Oregon is three back at 14-7.

Kentucky held the powerful Tennessee offense to a combined nine hits and three runs on Saturday and Sunday to pick up a huge series win on the road. Tennessee won the opener, 8-2, but the Wildcats responded with wins of 4-1 on Saturday and 8-2 on Sunday.

Kentucky, 22-15 overall and 8-10 in the league, has now won two SEC series this season — at the preseason No. 1 team (Texas A&M) and at the defending national champions (Tennessee).

Tennessee dropped to 33-7 overall and 12-6 in the SEC and has lost consecutive series at home for the first time since 2017.

Kansas swept Kansas State in Lawrence in arguably the biggest Sunflower State showdown ever. The Jayhawks rallied from a 3-0 deficit by scoring four in the seventh and one in the eighth to win 5-3 on Friday night and then swept a Saturday doubleheader by scores of 6-3 and 6-5. Kansas’ bullpen was terrific, allowing only five hits and one earned run in a combined 9 ⅓ innings in the three games.

It was a nice response from KU, which got swept the previous weekend at TCU. At 12-6, the Jayhawks are in a three-way tie with Arizona and TCU for second place in the Big 12. Kansas State, which lost a pair of midweek games at Northeastern, is now 23-17 overall and 10-8 in the Big 12.

Everyone in the league is chasing West Virginia, which improved to 13-3 by sweeping Cincinnati. The Mountaineers, with an RPI of No. 14, are firmly in the picture to host a Regional.

With three teams inside the top 60 of the RPI, the Southland Conference is in great shape to send multiple teams to a Regional for the first time since 2017. The candidates:

UTRGV, 26-13 overall, 17-7 Southland, No. 31 RPI

McNeese, 26-7 overall, 16-5 Southland, No. 38 RPI

SE Louisiana, 30-9 overall, 16-5 Southland, No. 54 RPI

The Southland ranks as the No. 9 conference in the RPI — up from No. 14 the last two seasons — and includes seven teams in the top 100.

Here’s a cool moment from the weekend in Columbia, S.C.

South Carolina won the series — its first in SEC play this season — with wins on Thursday and Friday.

In Thursday’s 3-2 win, South Carolina’s Brandon Stone needed only 86 pitches to finish off a complete game victory. Stone, a sophomore transfer from Johnson County (Kan.) Community College, allowed six hits and two earned runs and kept his pitch count down by issuing no walks and striking out only four.

And finally

• Texas A&M’s midseason turnaround continued with a series win at Arkansas, a team that was ranked No. 1 nationally a few weeks ago. The Aggies are 23-16 overall and 8-10 in the SEC with a No. 37 RPI.

• Wake Forest took two of three at Florida State in early April but has since lost five of its last six in the ACC. The Demon Deacons were swept at North Carolina two weeks ago and lost two of three at home to Boston College over the weekend.

• UTSA hit four home runs in the bottom of the second inning of a 25-7 win over Tulane on Saturday. Impressive? Sure. Even more impressive: The Roadrunners’ 11-run inning featured a solo shot (Mason Lytle), a two-run homer (Norris McClure), a three-run homer (McClure) and a grand slam (Diego Diaz). UTSA is 30-10 overall and 12-3 in the AAC.

• Rhode Island swept Dayton over the weekend and is in first place in the A-10 at 13-5. The Rams have not been to a Regional since 2015.

• It was a great week for Northeastern. The Huskies swept Kansas State in two midweek games and followed up with a three-game sweep over College of Charleston by a combined score of 23-0. Yes, zero runs in three games. Northeastern has a four-game lead in the Coastal Athletic Association.

• UC Irvine improved to 28-9 overall and 16-2 in the Big West with a sweep over Hawaii by a combined score of 12-1.

And the videos:

https://x.com/TheAthletic/status/1799936734740001075

https://x.com/ClemsonBaseball/status/1913657780340208094

https://x.com/OregonBaseball/status/1914085215724818724

https://x.com/SECbaseball/status/1913698909639373064

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On 4/14/2025 at 9:15 PM, TheBryMan81 said:

Monday RPI update

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/baseball/d1/rpi

Arkansas holds at #1

Georgia up to #2

Texas up to #3

Tennessee up to #4

Auburn jumps up to #5 after sweeping LSU

Clemson is the first non-SEC school checking in at #6

Vandy, Coastal Carolina, LSU, Oregon State round out the top 10

UTSA staying strong at #23

UTRGV drops to 35 after sweeping SFA at home

A&M continues their climb up the roller coaster and breaks into the top 50 at #49

Others of note: OU at #25, Florida at #30, Lamar at #61, Texas St at #90, 

RPI Update through 20APR

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/baseball/d1/rpi

Georgia somehow stays at #1 ahead of #2 Texas.

Vandy up to #3 followed by Auburn, Arkansas, LSU. Tennessee down to #12

Clemson is the first non-SEC team at #8 followed by UNC at #9

A&M on a hot streak checks into the top 40, now at #37. Honestly, quite remarkable considering they were outside the top 100 not too long ago. 

Others of note: OUsucks #19, Florida #23, UTSA #28, UTRGV #31, Lamar #70, Texas St. #87

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On 4/14/2025 at 9:29 PM, TheBryMan81 said:

Rankings update

Texas is the UNANIMOUS #1 team in the country. Who saw this coming in year 1 of Schloss?

Rest of the rankings

Baseball America

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/college-baseball-top-25-rankings/

D1 Baseball

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/baseball/d1/d1baseballcom-top-25

Perfect Game 

https://www.perfectgame.org/Articles/View.aspx?article=23562&src=hmrep

USA Today Coaches Poll 

https://sportsdata.usatoday.com/baseball/cbb/coaches-poll

NCBWA

https://www.sportswriters.net/ncbwa/news/2025/04/14/texas-29-5-tops-ncbwa-division-i-poll

 

Our next series opponent is Auburn coming in at 6, 7, 8, 8, 9.

UTRGV hanging on with a "Others Receiving Votes" in the NCBWA poll!

Rankings update

Texas is the obvious #1 across all polls 

Interesting trend, is the SEC starting to cannibalize themselves (other than Texas)? Significant variability in the top 10 across all polls. Clemson mostly at #2, but Oregon State, Florida State, and UNC all make an appearance in the top 5 somewhere across the polls.

Baseball America

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/college-baseball-top-25-rankings/

D1 Baseball

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/baseball/d1/d1baseballcom-top-25

Perfect Game 

https://www.perfectgame.org/Articles/View.aspx?article=23562&src=hmrephttps://www.perfectgame.org/Articles/View.aspx?article=23572&src=hmrep

USA Today Coaches Poll 

https://sportsdata.usatoday.com/baseball/cbb/coaches-poll

NCBWA

https://www.sportswriters.net/ncbwa/news/2025/04/21/texas-33-5-tops-ncbwa-division-i-poll

Our next series opponent is A&M, currently unranked in all polls but on a big hot streak

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14 hours ago, chase25 said:

Apparently Penn State has been doing free admission all year long this year. Had a really good crowd against West Virginia tonight, a record crowd of 6,106.

https://x.com/bigdonkey47/status/1914869200394310079?s=46

How does student ticketing work at the Disch? A first come, first serve free student section addition if/when any remodeling happens would be interesting.

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13 hours ago, NBHorn7 said:

North Carolina State run rules #2 Clemson 14-4 in eight innings.

 

Did NC State give Clemson COVID or something? Yikes.

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