What a nightmare of per week it was for the previous No. 2 staff within the nation, the LSU Tigers.
Final yr’s Males’s School World Sequence champions entered the season wanting fairly stable, however final week was definitely one to overlook. To begin the week off, LSU misplaced a house sport to Northeastern 13-10, then on the street at UL-Lafayette, suffered one other loss, this one 7-2. With a house collection in opposition to Sacramento State, it appeared just like the Tigers would proper the ship again in Baton Rogue, and it did within the first sport with a dominant 15-4 mercy-rule win in seven innings. However catastrophe struck once more as Sacramento State’s Cameron Sewell hit a grand slam within the eighth inning of Saturday’s contest to assist solidify a 5-4 win for the Hornets, after which the Hornets took the final sport of the collection with a 6-1 win. After the 1-4 week, the Tigers dropped to the No. 13 spot on this week’s rankings.
Exterior of LSU, the Florida Gators took a good greater drop, going from No. 9 to No. 23, and the North Carolina Tar Heels dropped from No. 8 to No. 15.
Two groups fell out of the rankings, the Miami Hurricanes and West Virginia Mountaineers, making room for the Virginia Cavaliers to enter at No. 14 — the week’s greatest riser — and the USC Trojans at No. 25.
Listed below are your entire prime 25 rankings as of March 9, plus our favourite moments and what we’re watching within the week to come back.
Prime moments
We needed to embody Sewell’s grand slam right here. There’s nothing higher than getting this off in one of many extra hostile environments in all of school baseball, effectively, as well as the win after all.
Y’all seeing this too?👀@SacStBaseball with a GRAND SLAM to increase their lead over LSU within the eighth!#NCAABaseball x 🎥 SECN+ / @11point7 pic.twitter.com/GpUwd1YhcC
— NCAA Baseball (@NCAABaseball) March 7, 2026
Now let’s check out this tremendous spectacular throw from Kentucky’s Scott Campbell.
THAT IS SOME THROW, SCOTT CAMPBELL 😮💨🫨#NCAABaseball x 🎥 SECN+ / @UKBaseball
— NCAA Baseball (@NCAABaseball) March 8, 2026
Participant to look at
Daniel Jackson, C/OF, Georgia
We have got some highly effective hitters this yr, and the brand new dwelling run chief this week is Georgia’s Daniel Jackson. He has hit a complete of 14 homers this yr already — 5 of which he hit simply final week — and has been an enormous motive Georgia is continuous to climb up the rankings. With convention play ramping up, how will he grasp in opposition to the SEC pitchers? We’ll simply have to attend and see.
THAT IS SOME THROW, SCOTT CAMPBELL 😮💨🫨#NCAABaseball x 🎥 SECN+ / @UKBaseball
— NCAA Baseball (@NCAABaseball) March 8, 2026
Sequence to look at
No. 3 Mississippi State at No. 5 Arkansas
Sport 1: 7 p.m. on Friday
Sport 2: 2 p.m. on Saturday
Sport 3: 3 p.m. on Sunday
Convention play begins this weekend, and with a number of ranked groups dealing with off, it was exhausting to decide on only one to deal with with Clemson dealing with Georgia Tech, Georgia internet hosting Tennessee and a midweek matchup between Florida and Florida State. However a top-five collection between these two SEC heavyweights is difficult to cross up.
Regardless of dropping an in depth 7-6 sport to Southern Miss final week, Mississippi State responded with a collection sweep over Lipscomb, but it surely wasn’t simply any sweep. The Bulldogs put up 26 runs — sure, 26 — within the remaining sport of the collection, and 43 runs throughout your entire weekend. Their bats are sizzling proper now, and they need to definitely be carrying this momentum with them into Fayetteville. In the meantime, Arkansas dropped a weekend sport to Stetson, and thought will probably be again in motion Monday for a fourth sport in opposition to Stetson, the Razorbacks ought to absolutely have loads of time to arrange. And with this being a house collection, the Razorbacks might need a slight edge.
Up to date prime 25
Listed below are D1baseball.com’s newest rankings, plus info on every staff’s subsequent sport.
All occasions Jap.
1. UCLA Bruins
Earlier rank: 1
Document: 13-2
Subsequent sport: vs. UC Irvine, 9 p.m. on Tuesday
2. Texas Longhorns
Earlier rank: 3
Document: 15-0
Subsequent sport: at Texas State, 7 p.m. on Tuesday (ESPN+)
3. Mississippi State Bulldogs
Earlier rank: 4
Document: 14-2
Subsequent sport: vs. Tulane, 7 p.m. on Tuesday (SEC Community+)
4. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Earlier rank: 5
Document: 14-2
Subsequent sport: vs. West Georgia, 6 p.m. on Tuesday (ACC Community Further)
5. Arkansas Razorbacks
Earlier rank: 6
Document: 12-4
Subsequent sport: vs. Stetson, 1 p.m. on Monday (SEC Community+)
6. Auburn Tigers
Earlier rank: 7
Document: 13-2
Subsequent sport: vs. UAB, 7 p.m. on Tuesday (SEC Community+)
7. Southern Miss Golden Eagles
Earlier rank: 10
Document: 14-2
Subsequent sport: vs. Ole Miss, 7 p.m. on Tuesday (ESPN+)
8. Georgia Bulldogs
Earlier rank: 11
Document: 15-3
Subsequent sport: vs. Tennessee Volunteers, 6 p.m. on Friday (SEC Community+)
9. Oklahoma Sooners
Earlier rank: 12
Document: 14-2
Subsequent sport: vs. UT Arlington, 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday (SEC Community+)
10. NC State Wolfpack
Earlier rank: 13
Document: 14-2
Subsequent sport: vs. Elon, 3 p.m. on Tuesday (ACC Community Further)
11. Clemson Tigers
Earlier rank: 14
Document: 15-1
Subsequent sport: vs. Georgia Southern, 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday
12. Wake Forest Demon Deacons
Earlier rank: 15
Document: 15-1
Subsequent sport: at Coastal Carolina, 6 p.m. on Tuesday (ESPN+)
13. LSU Tigers
Earlier rank: 2
Document: 12-5
Subsequent sport: vs. Creighton, 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday (SEC Community+)
14. Virginia Cavaliers
Earlier rank: NR
Document: 13-3
Subsequent sport: vs. William & Mary, 4 p.m. on Tuesday (ACC Community Further)
15. North Carolina Tar Heels
Earlier rank: 8
Document: 13-3-1
Subsequent sport: vs. Bucknell 4 p.m. on Tuesday (ACC Community Further)
16. Coastal Carolina Chanticleers
Earlier rank: 16
Document: 9-6
Subsequent sport: vs. Wake Forest, 6 p.m. on Tuesday (ESPN+)
17. TCU Horned Frogs
Earlier rank: 17
Document: 9-6
Subsequent sport: vs. Kansas, 7 p.m. on Tuesday (ESPN+)
18. Oregon State Beavers
Earlier rank: 18
Document: 10-4
Subsequent sport: vs. Xavier, 8:35 p.m. on Monday
19. Tennessee Volunteers
Earlier rank: 19
Document: 12-4
Subsequent sport: vs. Tennessee Tech, 6 p.m. on Tuesday (SEC Community+)
20. Florida State Seminoles
Earlier rank: 20
Document: 13-2
Subsequent sport: at Florida, 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday (SEC Community+)
21. Kentucky Wildcats
Earlier rank: 21
Document: 14-2
Subsequent sport: vs. Ball State, 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday (SEC Community+)
22. Texas A&M Aggies
Earlier rank: 22
Document: 14-1
Subsequent sport: vs. SFA, 7 p.m. on Tuesday (SEC Community+)
23. Florida Gators
Earlier rank: 9
Document: 14-3
Subsequent sport: vs. Florida State, 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday (SEC Community+)
24. UTSA Roadrunners
Earlier rank: 25
Document: 13-2
Subsequent sport: at Texas Tech, 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday (ESPN+)
25. USC Trojans
Earlier rank: NR
Document: 15-0
Subsequent sport: vs. Lengthy Seaside State, 9 p.m. on Tuesday