Texas ranked No. 16 in D1Baseball's preseason poll
With the calendar turning to 2024, the days remaining until the Texas Longhorns baseball season continue to shrink in number. After a year that saw David Pierce’s program win the Big 12, advance to the Super Regional round, and suffer a heartbreaking loss to Stanford in Palo Alto, the Longhorns returned star pitchers Lebarron Johnson Jr. and Tanner Witt for the team’s final season in the Big 12.
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Preseason polls have started to trickle out, and D1Baseball.com released their preseason top 25 on Tuesday. The Longhorns were ranked No. 16 after finishing the 2023 season ranked No. 14.
Texas is one of four Big 12 teams in the top 25. TCU leads the way for the conference at No. 5. Texas follows at No. 16, then Texas Tech at No. 21 and Kansas State at No. 24.
A number of teams from the 2024 schedule were also ranked in the top 25. The Longhorns face No. 4 LSU, the defending national champions, as part of the Astros Foundation College Classic at Minute Maid Park on Friday, March 1. On March 3, the Longhorns will play No. 6 Vanderbilt as part of that same event.
The string of ranked opponents continues on March 5 with Texas hosts rival No. 8 Texas A&M at UFCU Disch-Falk Field in Austin. Beginning March 8 in Lubbock, the Longhorns will start a three-game conference set with the Red Raiders.
Texas travels to Kansas State the weekend of March 28. TCU then will head to Austin the weekend of April 19, the same weekend as football’s Orange-White Game.
Pierce is entering his eighth season as head coach of the Longhorns. He has a record of 261-138 in Austin.
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D1Baseball Top 25
- Wake Forest
- Florida
- Arkansas
- LSU
- TCU
- Vanderbilt
- Oregon State
- Texas A&M
- Tennessee
- Clemson
- East Carolina
- Duke
- NC State
- Virginia
- North Carolina
- Texas
- UC Santa Barbara
- Coastal Carolina
- Alabama
- Iowa
- Texas Tech
- UCLA
- Northeastern
- Kansas State
- South Carolina
