Texas Tech Baseball Recruiting Class Ranked 13th

The Texas Tech baseball program received a #13 ranking for its 2014 recruiting class by Collegiate Baseball, the publication announced Monday. The ranking matches the program's highest in school history (2000).  It marks the second straight season that head coach Tim Tadlock, recruiting coordinator J-Bob Thomas, pitching coach Ray Hayward and director of baseball operations Joe Hughes have had a recruiting class that came in ranked in the top 30 in the country by Collegiate Baseball.

Coach Tadlock and company are coming off the best season in the Texas Tech baseball program's history finishing the season with a 45-21 record along with reaching the College World Series for the first time ever.  They were eliminated in their first two games by TCU and Ole Miss.

2014 NCAA D-I Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Recruiting Rankings
1. LSU
2. Wichita State
3. Florida
4. San Diego
5. Oklahoma State
6. Mississippi State
7. Texas
8. Stanford
9. Virginia
10. Cal State Fullerton
11. North Carolina
12. Oregon State
13. TEXAS TECH
14. Kentucky
15. Ole Miss
16. Arkansas
17. UCLA
18. Long Beach State
19. Oregon
20. Miami (Fla.)
20. Florida State
22. TCU
23. Rice
24. South Carolina
25. Vanderbilt
26. Louisville
27. Arizona State
28. Arizona
29. FIU
30. Michigan
31. Missouri
32. San Diego State
33. Houston
34. Tennessee
35. Clemson
36. Duke
37. Stetson
38. Florida Gulf Coast
39. California
40. Texas A&M
40. Auburn