Diamond Dogs Crack Baseball America's Top 10
It's the highest national ranking for a Mississippi State athletics team in2005-06 and MSU baseball's highest ranking since the 2001 Diamond Dogsclimbed to No. 7 in Collegiate baseball newspaper's May 1, 2001 ranking.
Clemson, Georgia Tech and North Carolina rank 1-2-3 in the latest BaseballAmerica collegiate rankings. Seven Southeastern Conference teams areincluded in this week's poll - No. 5 Florida, No. 6 Tennessee, No. 8Mississippi State, No. 9 South Carolina, No. 11 Arkansas, No. 17 LouisianaState and No. 22 Mississippi.
State resumes its season-opening 11-game home stand this weekendentertaining Arkansas State (6-2) Mar. 3-5. Friday's series-opener at DudyNoble Field is set for 4 p.m.
Baseball America Top 25 Rankings
Rank Team W-L
1. Clemson (5-1)
2. Georgia Tech (10-0)
3. North Carolina (7-0)
4. Rice (10-2)
5. Florida (8-3)
6. Tennessee (7-2)
7. Cal State Fullerton (8-4)
8. Mississippi State (3-0)
9. South Carolina (8-1)
10. Florida State (10-1)
11. Arkansas (9-0)
12. Pepperdine (8-6)
13. Oregon State (6-4)
14. Texas (9-6)
15. Tulane (8-3)
16. Long Beach State (9-4)
17. Louisiana State (10-1)
18. North Carolina State (12-1)
19 Stanford (9-4)
20. Missouri (5-4)
21. Texas Christian (6-4)
22. Mississippi (6-1)
23. Nebraska (5-2)
24. Winthrop (9-2)
25. San Diego (7-6)