Baseball America released its Top 25 college baseball rankings on Monday, and the TCU Horned Frogs dropped three spots to No. 10. It wasn't so much a drop in confidence in the team (they went 3-1 last week) as it was the emergence of two teams jumping into the Top 10. The one game that TCU lost was a Matt Purke start in which he picked up his first loss as a collegian. He allowed four runs (one earned) in 3 2/3 innings, walked three and struck out four.
Virginia moved from No. 11 to No. 7 following its three-game sweep of Clemson, but the LSU Tigers made the leap from No. 16 to No. 8 after its three-game sweep of Cal State Fullerton, the then No. 6 team in the country. The Titans fell to No. 13. LSU freshman pitcher Kevin Gausman struck out five and allowed four runs in seven innings for the no-decision.
The UNLV Runnin' Rebels are 16-3 on the season following a four-game sweep of Valparaiso and received 31 votes in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches poll, good for No. 32 this week. TCU remained No. 9 in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper's Top 30.
Here is Baseball America's Top 25 Rankings:
Rk.
Team
W-L
Last Week
Prev.
1.
Florida
14-2
4-1
1
2.
Vanderbilt
16-1
5-0
2
3.
Oklahoma
16-1
2-1
3
4.
South Carolina
11-2
3-1
4
5.
Texas
11-5
4-1
5
6.
Florida State
15-1
5-0
8
7.
Virginia
16-1
4-0
11
8.
Louisiana State
15-1
4-0
16
9.
Arizona State
11-3
2-1
9
10.
TCU
10-5
3-1
7
11.
Arizona
13-3
4-1
14
12.
Stanford
6-5
0-0
12
13.
Cal State Fullerton
8-6
0-3
6
14.
Baylor
11-5
5-0
17
15.
California
10-4
4-0
20
16.
Clemson
7-6
0-4
10
17.
Fresno State
11-2
3-1
23
18.
North Carolina
14-3
3-2
15
19.
Connecticut
7-6
3-2
19
20.
College of Charleston
14-3
4-1
21
21.
Texas A&M
12-4
3-1
22
22.
Tulane
11-4
2-1
24
23.
Georgia Tech
12-4
4-0
25
24.
UCLA
8-6
1-2
13
25.
Rice
10-8
2-3
18