As of May 10: 1. Arkansas 2. Vanderbilt 3. Miss State 4. Tennessee 5. Texas 6. TCU 7. Texas Tech 8. Notre Dame 9. Florida 10. Oregon 11. East Carolina 12. Stanford 13. Arizona 14. Louisiana Tech 15. Louisville 16. Pittsburgh 17. Florida State 18. Ole Miss 19. Southern Miss 20. Charlotte 21. Indiana 22. Gonzaga 23. UCLA 24. UC Irvine 25. South Carolina 5. 6. 7. That's about the current pecking order in the Big 12, as I see it (although TCU may take the conference title). Absent a melt down, we should be looking at a home field advantage in the playoffs until Omaha.
Arkansas has 79 homeruns on the year. Our team ERA is 2.92--ahead of all the Top 25 teams except Indiana. We're 15th in fielding %. We're #8 in hits allowed per 9 innings. What a Defense! But... we're not even in the top 50 in scoring. NCAA College Baseball DI current team Stats | NCAA.com
OU beat Tech last night 9-8 in opening game of that series so Tech is now mathematically eliminated from winning Big XII even though they took both series against Texas and TCU.
I spoke for a while with an aggie yesterday, and a little bit of his logic must have rubbed off on me. You see, the ags beat us, so that makes them the best team in Texas this year.
TCU dropped 6 places this week (to #12) after dropping a series this past weekend to UL-Monroe, while Texas moved up 3 spots (to #2) after Vandy lost its series against Ole Miss.
As of May 17 (should be another updated ranking this coming week): AP rankings: 1. Arkansas 2. Texas 3. Vanderbilt 4. Tennessee 5. Texas Tech 6. Oregon 7. Arizona 8. Notre Dame 9. Florida 10. Miss State 11. East Carolina 12. TCU 13. Ole Miss 14. Louisiana Tech 15. Stanford 16. Florida State 17. Gonzaga 18. UCLA 19. Southern Miss 20. UC Irvine 21. South Carolina 22. Charlotte 23. NC State 24. Michigan 25. Arizona State Dropped out: Louisville, Pittsburgh, Indiana
Other polls-- RPI: DI Baseball Rankings - RPI | NCAA.com Texas 4 TCU 7 Texas Tech 9 USA Today Coaches Poll: NCAA Baseball Coaches Poll | USA Today Sports Texas 3 Texas Tech 5 TCU 13 Baseball America Poll: Collegiate Baseball Div 1 Poll (5-17-21) - Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Texas 4 TCU 5 Texas Tech 10
Just about everyone has Arkansas as #1. Their power hitting is quite impressive this year. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
I’m going to opine that the coaches poll is the best. While they may have some in-conference bias, I think that coaches generally know the game better than media folks.
In all of them, we have 2-3 Big 12 teams in the top 10. The poll with only 2 has TCU at 13. Based on late season performance, I’d put Tech ahead of TCU.
Fourth is as high as I would put Texas. To much Inconsistent play in games they should walk over the opponent. Also Tech at nine is about right.
I hope we win it all of course, and I think we have a fair shot. Objectively speaking, the writers are probably correct to put Arkansas in the top spot--at this point. Their power hitting often makes their games look like Church league slow pitch softball.
Agree. At some point in the playoff's, they will struggle, but right now it is hard to see them losing a 3 game set.