USA Today Preseason Baseball Coaches Poll

The Preseason USA TODAY Sports Top 25 baseball poll, with team’s RECORDS FROM LAST YEAR, total points based on 25 for first place through one point for 25th, ranking in the last poll and first-place votes received in parentheses.

	Record	Pts	Pvs
1. LSU (23)	40-22	764	22
2. Tennessee (6)	57-9	741	9
3. Stanford	47-18	687	6
4. Texas A&M	44-20	610	4
5. Florida	42-24	570	21
6. Arkansas	46-21	569	3
7. Mississippi (2)	42-23	546	1
8. Oklahoma St.	42-22	509	17
9. Vanderbilt	39-23	501	24
10. Wake Forest	41-19-1	497	NR
11. Louisville	42-21-1	393	14
12. North Carolina	42-22	369	15
13. East Carolina	46-21	355	12
14. Maryland	48-14	331	18
15. UCLA	40-24	330	23
16. Virginia Tech	45-14	314	11
17. TCU	38-22	284	NR
18. Miami	40-20	246	20
19. Southern Miss.	47-19	242	13
20. Virginia	39-19	199	NR
21. Texas Tech	39-22	137	25
22. North Carolina St.	36-21	131	NR
23. Oregon St.	48-18	110	10
24. Texas	47-22	104	8
25. Oregon	36-25	74	NR

Dropped out: No. 2 Oklahoma (45-24); No. 5 Notre Dame (41-17); No. 7 Auburn (43-22); No. 16 Connecticut (50-16); No. 19 Texas State (47-14).

Others receiving votes: Auburn (43-22) 72; Alabama (31-27) 58; Oklahoma (45-24) 41; UC Santa Barbara (44-14) 40; Florida State (34-25) 32; Connecticut (50-16) 29; South Carolina (27-28) 29; Georgia Tech (36-24) 24; Rutgers (44-15) 22; Notre Dame (41-17) 19; Clemson (35-23) 15; Arizona (39-25) 13; Mississippi State (26-30) 12; Texas State (47-14) 8; Dallas Baptist (34-24-1) 6; Duke (22-32) 6; Georgia (36-23) 6; Gonzaga (37-19) 6; Rice (17-39) 6; Charlotte (36-22) 4; Georgia Southern (41-20) 3; Wofford (42-26-1) 3; Campbell (41-19) 2; Coastal Carolina (39-20-1) 2; Louisiana Tech (43-21) 2; San Diego (37-20) 2.