Texas Tech Baseball Ranked 9th in the Preseason Poll by Collegiate Baseball
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.
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