LSU Is No. 1 In The USA Today Preseason Coaches Poll

LSU is ranked No. 1 in the USA Today Preseason Coaches Poll, which was released on Thursday.

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BATON ROUGE, La. – The LSU baseball program has received its first No. 1 ranking in the USA TODAY Sports preseason poll since 2009, and Tigers coach Paul Mainieri likes the synchronicity of that.

This is because the last time LSU won the national championship was also in 2009.

“Just maybe, history will repeat itself this year,” Mainieri said. “I know we were picked No. 1 in 2009, and then ended up winning the national championship. I remember in 2017, we were preseason No. 2 in one of the polls, and we finished No. 2. So maybe there is something to these prognostications.”

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USA Today Preseason Coaches Poll & 2018 Record:
1. LSU (39-27)
2. Vanderbilt (35-27)
3. Florida (49-21)
4. Texas Tech (45-20)
5. Oregon State (55-12-1)
6. North Carolina (44-20)
7. UCLA (38-21)
8. Louisville (45-19)
9. Stanford (46-12)
10. Mississippi (48-17)
11. Florida State (43-19)
12. Arkansas (48-21)
13. Georgia (39-21)
14. East Carolina (44-18)
15. Mississippi State (39-29)
16. Texas (42-23)
17. TCU (33-23)
18. Baylor (37-21)
19. Clemson (47-16)
20. Auburn (43-23)
21. Oklahoma State (31-26-1)
22. Coastal Carolina (43-19)
23. North Carolina State (42-18)
24. Cal State Fullerton (36-25)
25. Michigan (33-21)

Others receiving votes: Duke (45-18) 68; Southern Mississippi (44-18) 43; Minnesota (44-15) 36; Wake Forest (25-32) 31; Texas A&M (40-22) 24; Arizona (34-22) 20; Georgia Tech (31-27) 18; Connecticut (37-22-1) 16; Stetson (48-13) 16; Washington (35-26) 11; Bryant (32-23-1) 8; Dallas Baptist (42-21) 7; Purdue (38-21) 7; Arizona State (23-32) 6; Seton Hall (30-20-1) 6; St. John’s (40-17) 6; UC-Irvine (32-24) 6; Illinois (33-20) 5; Kent State (40-18) 5; Missouri State (40-17) 5; North Carolina-Wilmington (39-23) 5; South Carolina (37-26) 5; Northeastern (36-21) 4; Houston (38-25) 3; Harvard (22-20) 2; Kentucky (34-22) 1; Marist (27-23) 1; Miami (Fla.) (28-26) 1; Oregon (26-29) 1; South Alabama (32-25) 1.

Here is how LSU stacks up in the other polls:

Coaches Poll: No. 1
Perfect Game: No. 1
College Baseball Newspaper: No. 1
D1Baseball: No. 2
Baseball America: No. 2