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Gamecocks Crack Baseball America’s Top 10
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They moved from 16th in the opening season poll for Baseball America to 13th last week, to now 10th this week. They are moving up in all the polls - Collegiate Baseball moved them up the most, from 20th to 13th last week now to 5th. The Gamecocks moved up in the NCBWA poll from 16th to 13th last week now to 7th, and USA Today moved them up from 20th to 12th last week, to 8th. Here are all the poll rankings for this week:
The Longhorns are now 7-5 on their season, after starting out 0-3 from playing three SEC opponents in a season-opening invitational. They were pretty decent SEC opponents too - current #3 Mississippi State (per D1Baseball), #1 Arkansas, and #4 Mississippi, and Texas got out-scored 20-4 in those games. Hopefully we keep the SEC dominance going this coming weekend.....
The Gamecocks went into the Texas series 11-0. Well, the rest is history, as we were swept by the Longhorns, which started a 6-game losing streak that dropped us to 11-6 on the season, and out of the top 25 for two of the 6 polls.
BUT we then rebounded - the 5th and 6th loss of that slide were the first 2 games of the SEC season opening series with Vanderbilt, but we righted the ship somewhat by winning the final game of that series - it's STILL the only conference loss on the season Vanderbilt has, and they are now currently 8-1 in SEC play.
We built on that win by sweeping then-2nd ranked Florida, and winning 2 of 3 at UGA - a 6-game win streak to move up to 17-6, and overall 8-1 run to improve currently to 19-7 and 6-3 in the SEC. So naturally, we've moved back up in all polls:
We have some serious opportunity to make some hay while the sun shines for the next two weeks or so: we play UNC (14-12, 9-9 ACC) Tuesday (April 6th), then host Missouri (10-17, 3-6), then host Charleston Southern (9-11, 9-8 Big South) next week's Tuesday, then travel to LSU which is always a tough road series but LSU is seriously struggling this season at 17-11 and 1-8 in SEC play - they are tied currently with Auburn for the worst conference record.
So that's 8 games next on the schedule, where we have a very strong chance to win the vast majority if not ALL of them. Win the most we can - especially those conference games - and we will be sitting pretty nice. The SEC games after LSU get much, much tougher from here on out, with Arkansas, Ole Miss, Miss State, and Tennessee left to play....
BUT we then rebounded - the 5th and 6th loss of that slide were the first 2 games of the SEC season opening series with Vanderbilt, but we righted the ship somewhat by winning the final game of that series - it's STILL the only conference loss on the season Vanderbilt has, and they are now currently 8-1 in SEC play.
We built on that win by sweeping then-2nd ranked Florida, and winning 2 of 3 at UGA - a 6-game win streak to move up to 17-6, and overall 8-1 run to improve currently to 19-7 and 6-3 in the SEC. So naturally, we've moved back up in all polls:
We have some serious opportunity to make some hay while the sun shines for the next two weeks or so: we play UNC (14-12, 9-9 ACC) Tuesday (April 6th), then host Missouri (10-17, 3-6), then host Charleston Southern (9-11, 9-8 Big South) next week's Tuesday, then travel to LSU which is always a tough road series but LSU is seriously struggling this season at 17-11 and 1-8 in SEC play - they are tied currently with Auburn for the worst conference record.
So that's 8 games next on the schedule, where we have a very strong chance to win the vast majority if not ALL of them. Win the most we can - especially those conference games - and we will be sitting pretty nice. The SEC games after LSU get much, much tougher from here on out, with Arkansas, Ole Miss, Miss State, and Tennessee left to play....
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We're still ranked in all six of the polls, somehow:
After starting 11-0, we've gone 17-17 since, including 12-12 in conference play. Going 5-5 in non-conference play sucks.....
After starting 11-0, we've gone 17-17 since, including 12-12 in conference play. Going 5-5 in non-conference play sucks.....
Final week rankings - we've moved up a tad:
Final 4 games of the season will be at home:
Congratulations to both Andrew Eyster and Brett Kerry for earning SEC player and pitcher of the week honors:
