Baseball Preseason Top 25
January 27, 2012 · CSM Staff
| Rank | Team | Comments | Prior | |
| 1 |  |
Florida | If South Carolina is going to be dethroned, it may be fellow SEC member Florida that does it. | |
| 2 |  |
South Carolina | Can South Carolina make it three in a row? They have some holes to fill, but plenty of talent ready to step up. | |
| 3 |  |
Texas | Coach Augie Garrido knows how to win games and he has more than enough talent at Texas to go back to the CWS. | |
| 4 |  |
North Carolina | Sophomore pitcher Kent Emanuel is coming off of a great season. Now it is his time to step up and lead this team. | |
| 5 |  |
Arizona State | The Sun Devils missed out on the CWS by one game last season. They will have another good shot in 2012. | |
| 6 |  |
Cal State Fullerton | Fullerton will have to rely on some freshmen to stay in the top ten, but this is a very talented team with potential. | |
| 7 |  |
Texas A&M | Behind the superb pitching duo of Michael Wacha and Ross Stripling, Texas A&M will be eyeing Omaha. | |
| 8 |  |
Vanderbilt | Vanderbilt’s stellar recruiting class will be noticed right away. And this is a team that has some talent returning too. | |
| 9 |  |
Florida State | Coach Mike Martin has been to 31 straight NCAA Tournaments at Florida State. This team will make it 32. | |
| 10 |  |
LSU | With a veteran squad, LSU can look past their extremely disappointing 2011 campaign and get back on track in 2012. | |
| 11 |  |
TCU | The Horned Frogs will score a lot of runs this year and they should win yet another MWC on their way out of the conference. | |
| 12 |  |
UC Irvine | The Anteaters have experience on the field and in the dugout. This is a team ready to battle for a spot in the CWS. | |
| 13 |  |
Rice | Coach Wayne Graham has a very experienced team on his hands and this is a group that can head to the CWS. | |
| 14 |  |
Oregon State | Coach Pat Casey has his Beavers poised for another NCAA Tournament run and possibly a trip to the CWS. | |
| 15 |  |
Georgia Tech | Coach Danny Hall has the Yellow Jackets consistently in the NCAA Tournament and they will be back in 2012. | |
| 16 |  |
Stanford | With Mark Appel, Kenny Diekroeger and Stephen Piscotty, Stanford has the star power to reach the CWS. | |
| 17 |  |
Oklahoma | Coach Sunny Galloway has some holes to fill, but southpaw Dillon Overton should lead OU back to the NCAAs. | |
| 18 |  |
Miami | The Hurricanes have the pitching to win the ACC, but they will have to find some more bats to be a great team. | |
| 19 |  |
UCLA | Can the UCLA pitching staff survive without Gerrit Cole and Trevor Bauer? They have talent, but lack experience. | |
| 20 |  |
Virginia | The Cavaliers have a lot of new faces, but they are talented. This is a team that should get back to the tournament. | |
| 21 |  |
Mississippi State | The Bulldogs have a lot of talent to replace, but a strong pitching staff will lead them back to the NCAAs. |
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| 22 |  |
Arizona | The hot bats of Arizona should lead them back to an NCAA appearance, but the pitching could take them pretty far. | |
| 23 |  |
Coastal Carolina | Coastal Carolina had a great 2011 campaign, but failed to make it past the regionals. They’ll get another shot. | |
| 24 |  |
Arkansas | Arkansas has been to ten straight NCAA Tournaments under Coach Dave Van Horn and that streak won’t end this year. | |
| 25 |  |
St. John’s | The Red Storm have reached the NCAA Tournament two years in a row and 2012 will make it three. | |
