LSU baseball ranked in the top three of Collegiate Baseball preseason poll

LSU debuts in the top three of the preseason Collegiate Baseball poll.

When the LSU Tigers officially take to the diamond under new baseball coach Jay Johnson, the expectations will be high. After signing the No. 1 recruiting class in the nation, the team is looking for a return to Omaha and the College World Series.

Last season the team finished 38-25 and were in the NCAA regional championship. They missed the College World Series, the Tigers haven’t appeared in the CWS since 2017. They haven’t won the national championship since 2009. Johnson and the Tigers are looking to change that this season. He comes over from Arizona as the new head coach, his old team appears as the No. 22 team in the country while LSU is No. 3.

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It will be tough sledding in the SEC as they have to deal with Vanderbilt and last year’s national champions, Mississippi State in conference play. Six teams from the SEC appear in the top 25 and 10 teams in the top 50.

2022 Preseason Baseball Rankings

Rank Team 2021 Record
1 Texas 50-17
2 Vanderbilt 49-18
3 LSU 38-25
4 Texas Tech 39-17
5 Stanford 39-17
6 Florida 38-22
7 Oklahoma State 36-19-1
8 East Carolina 44-17
9 Mississippi State 50-18
10 Notre Dame 34-13
11 Georgia Tech 31-25
12 Florida State 31-24
13 TCU 41-19
14 UC Irvine 43-18
15 Louisiana Tech 42-20
16 Central Michigan 42-18
17 UC Santa Barbara 41-20
18 UCLA 37-20
19 Mississippi 45-22
20 Arkansas 50-13
21 Oregon 39-16
22 Arizona 45-18
23 Miami (Fl) 33-21
24 Virginia 36-27
25 North Carolina 28-27

Numbers 26-50:

26. Louisville (28-22)

27. N.C. State (37-19)

28. Duke (33-22)

29. Campbell (37-18)

30. Michigan (27-19)

31. Nebraska (34-14)

32. Dallas Baptist (41-18)

33. Georgia (31-25)

34. Tennessee (50-18)

35. Gonzaga (34-19)

36. South Alabama (36-22)

37. Liberty (41-18)

38. Maryland (30-18)

39. Connecticut (34-19)

40. Alabama (32-26)

41. Fairfield (39-5)

42. Oregon St. (37-24)

43. Arizona St. (33-22)

44. South Carolina (34-23)

45. Oklahoma (27-28)

46. Long Beach St. (24-15)

47. Cal Poly (31-25)

48. Southern Miss (40-21)

49. Old Dominion (44-16)

50. Nevada (25-20)

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