Clemson stayed at No. 9 in the new USA TODAY Sports baseball coaches poll released Monday, March 11.
The Tigers are 13-1 overall and won all four games they played last week, including a three-game series sweep of UNC Greensboro at Doug Kingsmore Stadium over the weekend.
Wake Forest (12-3 overall), which lost two of three to Duke, dropped out of the top spot and fell to No. 5. Arkansas (13-2) jumped two spots to No. 1 in the new coaches poll. The Razorbacks have now moved up four spots over the past two weeks.
LSU (14-2) remained at No. 2. Oregon State (15-1) climbed two spots to No. 3. Unbeaten Texas A&M (16-0) also climbed two spots to No. 4.
Tennessee (16-1) moved up two spots as well, to No. 6. Duke jumped four spots in the coaches poll to No. 7 after its big weekend in Winston-Salem. Clemson will travel to Duke for the Tigers’ first series in ACC play this weekend.
TCU, Clemson, and Vanderbilt rounded out the top 10 in the coaches poll.
In other polls, the Tigers moved up one spot to No. 9 in this week’s Baseball America Top 25 rankings. They stayed at No. 10 in D1Baseball.com’s rankings.
Clemson will host Manhattan in midweek action Tuesday and Wednesday. First pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m. EDT for both games at Doug Kingsmore Stadium.