Husker Baseball Climbs Into Top 25 Polls

Nebraska's placement ranges from 22nd to 25th in five sets of national rankings

Joe Hudson | Apr 4, 2024

Teammates greet Garrett Anglim after his home run for Nebraska against New Mexico State on March 22, 2024, at Haymarket Park in Lincoln. / Amarillo Mullen

For the first time since the 2022 preseason, Nebraska baseball is in the national rankings. Five of them, in fact.

In polls and rankings released Monday, Perfect Game has the Huskers at No. 25, while D1Baseball has Nebraska pegged at No. 24. The writers and coaches polls are in agreement about the Huskers, placing them at No. 23. NU's highest ranking, 22nd, comes from Baseball America.

Coach Will Bolt has his Huskers on a 10-game winning streak, which has boosted the team's season record to 20-5 entering April. Over the weekend, Nebraska closed out March with a three-game sweep at Northwestern in the Huskers' first Big Ten Conference series of the season.

No other Big Ten team appears in any of the five top 25s, and Arkansas is No. 1 in all five rankings.

Next for Nebraska is a Tuesday night game in Omaha against Creighton (20-4), followed by a three-game weekend series in Lincoln against the Big Ten's Ohio State Buckeyes (12-12).

Published Apr 1, 2024|Modified Apr 4, 2024

JOE HUDSON

Joe Hudson has operated a Husker-related website since 1995 and joined forces with David Max to form HuskerPedia (later renamed HuskerMax) in 1999. It began as a hobby during his 35 years as a newspaper editor and reporter, a career that included stints at the Lincoln Star, Omaha World-Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer and Denver Post. In Denver, Joe was chief of the copy desk during his final 16 years at the Post. He is proud to have been involved in Pulitzer Prize-winning projects in both Philadelphia and Denver. Joe has been a Nebraska football fan since the mid-1960s during his childhood in Omaha. He earned his bachelor of arts degree in journalism and economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1976. He resides a few freeway exits north of Colorado Springs and enjoys bicycling and walking his dogs in his spare time. You can reach him at joeroyhud@outlook.com.