Baseball America Ranks Virginia No. 5 in Preseason Poll

For the second season in a row, Virginia baseball is ranked No. 5 in the Baseball America Preseason Top 25 poll.
No. 🖐 in the preseason for the second-straight year per @BaseballAmerica #GoHoos pic.twitter.com/G2KDmx645e
— Virginia Baseball (@UVABaseball) January 24, 2022
UVA is coming off of the program's fifth College World Series appearance last June. The Cavaliers are ranked No. 5 in the Baseball American preseason poll, No. 24 in the Collegiate Baseball preseason poll, but are unranked in the D1 Baseball preseason poll.
See the full top 25 rankings for each poll here:
| Baseball America | Collegiate Baseball | D1 Baseball |
|---|---|---|
1. Texas | 1. Texas | 1. Texas |
2. Vanderbilt | 2. Vanderbilt | 2. Arkansas |
3. Mississippi State | 3. LSU | 3. Vanderbilt |
4. Notre Dame | 4. Texas Tech | 4. Mississippi State |
5. Virginia | 5. Stanford | 5. Ole Miss |
6. Florida | 6. Florida | 6. Stanford |
7. Stanford | 7. Oklahoma State | 7. Oklahoma State |
8. Arkansas | 8. East Carolina | 8. LSU |
9. Ole Miss | 9. Mississippi State | 9. Florida |
10. LSU | 10. Notre Dame | 10. NC State |
11. Oregon State | 11. Georgia Tech | 11. Florida State |
12. Florida State | 12. Florida State | 12. East Carolina |
13. Arizona | 13. TCU | 13. Notre Dame |
14. Georgia | 14. UC Irvine | 14. Texas Tech |
15. East Carolina | 15. Louisiana Tech | 15. Arizona |
16. NC State | 16. Central Michigan | 16. Georgia |
17. Tennessee | 17. UC Santa Barbara | 17. TCU |
18. UC Irvine | 18. UCLA | 18. Oregon State |
19. Oklahoma State | 19. Ole Miss | 19. Tennessee |
20. Nebraska | 20. Arkansas | 20. UC Irvine |
21. Georgia Tech | 21. Oregon | 21. Georgia Tech |
22. UCLA | 22. Arizona | 22. Dallas Baptist |
23. Texas Tech | 23. Miami | 23. Duke |
24. Old Dominion | 24. Virginia | 24. Long Beach State |
25. Miami | 25. North Carolina | 25. Miami |
Virginia begins its 2022 season on Friday, February 18th against Bellarmine in the Jerry Bryson Classic in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. UVA will also play Gardner-Webb and NJIT in Boiling Springs before returning to Charlottesville for the home opener on February 22nd against VMI.
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