Clemson moved one spot to No. 9 in the new Baseball America Top 25 rankings released Monday and stayed at No. 10 in D1Baseball.com’s latest Top 25.
The Tigers are 13-1 overall and won all four games they played last week, including a three-game weekend series sweep of UNC Greensboro at Doug Kingsmore Stadium.
Wake Forest (12-3 overall)), which had been No. 1 all season, fell to No. 7 after dropping two of three against Duke in a weekend series in Winston-Salem. That allowed Arkansas (13-2), which went 4-0 last week, to jump to No. 1 in both Baseball America’s and D1Baseball’s rankings.
Defending national champion LSU (14-2) stayed at No. 2. The Tigers and Razorbacks both begin conference play this week in the SEC against Mississippi State and Missouri, respectively.
Duke (13-2) jumped to No. 3 in Baseball America’s rankings after its weekend series victory over the Demon Deacons, as well as a 28-2 midweek walloping of Appalachian State on Tuesday.
The Blue Devils placed No. 6 in D1Baseball’s rankings, six spots ahead of where they sat last week. Clemson will travel to Duke on Friday for the Tigers’ first series in conference play.
Undefeated Texas A&M (16-0) jumped into the top five in both rankings. The Aggies went 5-0 last week to move six spots to No. 5 in Baseball America’s poll. They moved three spots to No. 4 in D1Baseball’s poll.
Oregon State (15-1) moved ahead three spots to No. 3 in D1Baseball’s rankings and stayed at No. 4 in Baseball America’s top 25.
Tennessee (16-1) went 5-0 last week to move ahead one spot to No. 6 in Baseball America’s rankings. Wake Forest, Vanderbilt (13-1), Clemson, and Florida (10-5) rounded out the top 10 in those rankings.
TCU (14-2) fell out of the top 10 in both Baseball America and D1Baseball’s rankings after dropping two of three to Kansas over the weekend. TCU placed 11th in Baseball America’s rankings, and 12th in D1Baseball’s. They had been ranked No. 5 in both rankings a week ago.
Clemson was ranked No. 9 in the most recent USA TODAY Sports baseball coaches poll, released Monday, March 4.