Just about a month of baseball is left in the 2023 regular season at the collegiate level. The conference tournaments will begin in late May as we start to get a feel for what the postseason field will look like.
The No. 1 ranked [autotag]LSU Tigers[/autotag] are coming off a sweep of Ole Miss as they finished the week at 32-7 and 12-5 in SEC play. The [autotag]Tennessee Volunteers[/autotag] also are coming off a sweep after they blasted [autotag]Vanderbilt Commodores[/autotag] pitching over the weekend. It wasn’t a great weekend for the [autotag]Florida Gators[/autotag], who were swept by the [autotag]South Carolina Gamecocks[/autotag].
The biggest riser in this week’s poll is the [autotag]Duke Blue Devils[/autotag], who jumped 15 spots. They are winners of five straight, including a sweep of No. 19 Louisville, who fell nine spots this week. The Cardinals were the big loser of the weekend for teams still ranked.
The [autotag]Texas Longhorns[/autotag] were the highest ranked team to fall completely out of the top 25 at No. 14 last week. Texas was swept by the [autotag]Oklahoma Sooners[/autotag] over the weekend. OU received no votes despite taking all three games against a top 15 opponent.
A look at the full Coaches Poll powered by USA TODAY Sports:
Rank | Team | Record | Points | Change |
1 | LSU | 32-7 | 769 (27) | – |
2 | Wake Forest | 34-6 | 738 (1) | – |
3 | South Carolina | 34-6 | 725 (3) | +3 |
4 | Florida | 31-10 | 644 | -1 |
5 | Vanderbilt | 29-11 | 621 | -1 |
6 | Arkansas | 30-10 | 600 | -1 |
7 | Coastal Carolina | 26-12 | 551 | +6 |
8 | Stanford | 25-12 | 523 | +1 |
9 | Campbell | 31-8 | 454 | +3 |
10 | Virginia | 32-9 | 428 | -3 |
11 | Kentucky | 30-9 | 424 | – |
12 | Boston College | 27-12 | 403 | +5 |
13 | Connecticut | 29-11 | 394 | +2 |
14 | East Carolina | 29-11 | 366 | -6 |
15 | Texas Tech | 29-13 | 251 | +4 |
16 | Tennessee | 26-14 | 242 | +4 |
17 | Miami | 25-15 | 234 | +1 |
18 | Arizona State | 27-12 | 221 | +3 |
19 | Louisville | 26-13 | 207 | -9 |
20 | Dallas Baptist | 31-9 | 194 | +7 |
21 | West Virginia | 29-11 | 189 | +11 |
22 | Duke | 27-12 | 155 | +15 |
23 | Oregon | 26-12 | 118 | – |
24 | Oklahoma State | 28-13 | 103 | – |
25 | Indiana | 30-11 | 84 | +6 |
Schools Dropped Out
No. 14 Texas; No. 16 North Carolina; No. 22 UCLA; No. 25 Oregon State
Others Receiving Votes
Oregon State 80; North Carolina 74; Indiana State 52; Texas 49; Texas San Antonio 47; Florida Gulf Coast 29; Alabama 22; UCLA 18; Northeastern 18; Texas A&M 14; USC 11; Troy 7; Southern Miss 6; Georgia 4; North Carolina State 2; UC Santa Barbara 1; Oral Roberts 1; Maryland 1; Iowa 1
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