Louisville 12th in Baseball America Preseason Top 25
January 26, 2015 | Baseball
Junior Danny Rosenbaum during Cancer Awareness Night at Patterson Stadium in 2014.
• 2015 Baseball America Preseason Top 25
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Louisville baseball team received its fourth preseason national ranking on Monday as Baseball America tabbed the Cardinals at No. 12 in its preseason Top 25.
The Cardinals are ranked as highly as No. 9 in the Perfect Game preseason Top 25 while also landing at No. 11 in the D1Baseball Top 25 and No. 12 in the Collegiate Baseball newspaper poll. Louisville is ranked in the preseason for the eighth straight season and the Cardinals have remained in the national polls every week since the release of the 2012 preseason rankings.
Louisville, which closed last year's College World Series season ranked as highly as No. 6 overall, is among six ACC schools in the Baseball America preseason Top 25, the most for any league. Leading the way for the ACC is No. 4 Virginia, No. 9 Miami, the 12th-ranked Cardinals, No. 17 North Carolina, No. 21 Florida State and No. 24 Clemson.
Last season's NCAA champion Vanderbilt is atop the Baseball America Top 25 followed by No. 2 LSU, No. 3 Houston, No. 4 Virginia and No. 5 Texas Tech. Overall, six teams in the top 25 in the preseason poll are on the Cardinals' schedule in 2015 - No. 1 Vanderbilt, No. 4 UVA, No. 9 Miami, No. 21 Florida State, No. 23 Cal State Fullerton and No. 24 Clemson.
The Cardinals will open the 2015 season at the Clearwater (Fla.) Tournament against Alabama State (Feb. 13), USF (Feb. 14) and Cal State Fullerton (Feb. 15) at Bright House Field. Louisville's 33-game home slate at Jim Patterson Stadium is set to begin on Feb. 18 against Eastern Kentucky.
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