Notre Dame baseball starting to attract national eyes

The Irish are starting to gain a little bit of attention…

2023 has been a year of change for Notre Dame baseball as the program, coming off one of their most successful seasons in its history, has a new head coach and a lot of new faces.  Despite that the Irish have worked their way to a 25-17 overall record this season while playing 13-11 ball to date in the ACC.

No, it’s not 41-17 overall mark that 2022 saw but that team finished ACC play 16-11 overall.  This year’s Irish have six regular season conference games left and although they can’t do better than the 11 total conference losses, they’ve given it a solid run.

As a result of winning two-of-three from a Florida State program that is in rough shape, Notre Dame showed up for the first time this season in the USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll as a team receiving votes.

No, they’re not knocking of the door to get into the top-25 yet as they received four total votes but that’s an accomplishment few likely saw happening at any point this year.

This week’s entire USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll can be found below:

Rank Team Record Points Change
1 LSU 35-8 769 (27)
2 Wake Forest 37-6 747 (3)
3 Florida 35-10 675 +1
4 South Carolina 35-8 667 (1) -1
5 Vanderbilt 32-11 660
6 Arkansas 33-11 625
7 Stanford 28-13 557 +1
8 Coastal Carolina 28-14 522 -1
9 Connecticut 32-11 433 +4
10 Duke 31-13 430 +12
11 Miami 28-16 373 +6
12 Virginia 35-11 359 -2
13 Campbell 31-10 356 -4
14 West Virginia 33-11 344 +7
15 East Carolina 31-13 310 -1
16 Tennessee 30-14 298
17 Boston College 29-14 288 -5
18 Dallas Baptist 34-10 271 +2
19 Oregon 30-13 211 +4
20 Oregon State 30-13 197 +6
21 Kentucky 30-13 159 -10
22 Arizona State 29-15 136 -4
23 Oklahoma State 30-13 125 +1
24 Texas Tech 30-15 89 -9
25 Louisville 28-15 79 -6

Schools Dropped Out

No. 25 Indiana

Others Receiving Votes

Texas San Antonio 65; Maryland 60; North Carolina 49; Texas 36; Northeastern 36; Indiana State 31; Clemson 21; Florida Gulf Coast 20; Cal State Fullerton 17; UCLA 13; Indiana 11; Kansas State 9; Alabama 8; Southern Miss 5; North Carolina State 5; Notre Dame 4; Auburn 3; UC Santa Barbara 1; Oral Roberts 1

Notre Dame returns to action for a mid-week contest Tuesday against Bowling Green.  The Irish will then host North Carolina State for a three-game series this weekend.

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