The Texas Tech baseball program received a #9 preseason national ranking by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, the publication announced Monday morning.  Tech receives its first preseason national ranking since 2002 when Collegiate Baseball ranked Tech 26th.  Tech's #9 ranking is its highest preseason ranking since receiving a #8 ranking by Baseball America prior to the 1998 season.

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The Red Raiders are one of four Big 12 programs ranked among the top 10 in the nation.  Texas Tech, led by third-year head coach and 2014 National Coach of the Year, Tim Tadlock, returns 22 players from last season's team that went 45-21 and advanced to the NCAA College World Series for the first time in program history.

Texas Tech will host San Francisco on Opening Day, scheduled for Friday, February 13th at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park in Lubbock.  Here is how the rest of the top 25 looks like.

COLLEGIATE BASEBALL PRESEASON TOP-25 POLL

1. Vanderbilt

2. TCU

3. Virginia

4. LSU

5. Oklahoma State

6. Florida

7. Texas

8. Houston

9. TEXAS TECH

10. UCLA

11. Florida State

12. Louisville

13. Cal Poly

14. Miami (Fla.)

15. Oregon

16. UC Santa Barbara

17. Cal State Fullerton

18. Stanford

19. Arizona State

20. Mississippi State

21. South Carolina

22. Rice

23. Liberty

24. North Carolina

25. College of Charleston

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