Kentucky Baseball lands at No. 3 in final Top 25 Rankings

Kentucky Baseball finished the 2024 season ranked No. 3 by D1Baseball, its highest Top 25 finish in program history.

The Bat Cats set many program records in 2024, including 46 wins, six NCAA Tournament wins, and 22 SEC wins en route to a College World Series berth and an SEC Co-Regular Season Championship.

“This is where you want to end your season. This is not how you want to end your season but this is where you want to end your season,” Nick Mingione said following Kentucky’s season-ending loss to Florida. “But so proud of these guys for the way they represented themselves, our baseball program and our institution. Just amazing, amazing group of men. And they are winners in every sense of the word, every sense of the word.”

National Champion Tennessee finished at No. 1, while runner-up (and now coachless) Texas A&M finished at No. 2. Florida, who eliminated Kentucky from the Men’s College World Series, landed at No. 8.

Seven of the 25 teams hailed from the SEC (No. 1 Tennessee, No. 2 Texas A&M, No. 3 Kentucky, No. 8 Florida, No. 11 Georgia, No. 17 Arkansas, No. 22 Mississippi State).

The entire Final Top 25 Rankings are below:

1. Tennessee (60-13) National Champions
2. Texas A&M (53-15) Runner-Ups
3. Kentucky (46-16) Men’s College World Series
4. Florida State (49-17) Men’s College World Series
5. North Carolina (48-16) Men’s College World Series
6. NC State (38-23) Men’s College World Series
7. Virginia (46-17) Men’s College World Series
8. Florida (36-30) Men’s College World Series
9. Clemson (44-16) Clemson Super Regional
10. Oregon State (45-16) Lexington Super Regional
11. Georgia (43-17) Athens Super Regional
12. Oregon (40-20) Bryan-College Station Super Regional
13. West Virginia (36-24) Chapel Hill Super Regional
14. Kansas State (35-26) Charlottesville Super Regional
15. UConn (35-26) Tallahassee Super Regional
16. Evansville (39-26) Knoxville Super Regional
17. Arkansas (44-16) Fayetteville Regional
18. Oklahoma (40-21) Norman Regional
19. UC Santa Barbara (44-14) Santa Barbara Regional
20. East Carolina (46-17) Greenville Regional
21. Oklahoma State (42-19) Stillwater Regional
22. Mississippi State (40-23) Charlottesville Regional
23. UC Irvine (45-14) Corvallis Regional
24. Duke (40-20) Norman Regional
25. Arizona (36-23) Tucson Regional

Kentucky opened the 2024 season unranked, but peaked as high as No. 2. Here were the complete week-by-week rankings for the Wildcat this season.

Preseason: Unranked (0-0)
Week 1: Unranked (3-0)
Week 2: Unranked (6-1)
Week 3: Unranked (10-1)
Week 4: Unranked (13-3)
Week 5: Unranked (17-3)
Week 6: No. 24 (20-4)
Week 7: No. 17 (24-4)
Week 8: No. 8 (27-4)
Week 9: No. 3 (30-5)
Week 10: No. 4 (32-7)
Week 11: No. 8 (33-9)
Week 12: No. 4 (35-10)
Week 13: No. 2 (37-11)
Week 14: No. 2 (39-12)
Regional Week: No. 2 (40-14)
Final: No. 3 (46-16)

Now it’s on to the offseason for a reloading Kentucky Baseball squad. Stay up to date with the team and its roster moves with KSR’s 2025 Kentucky Baseball Roster Tracker.