Feb. 17 Baseball National Rankings, Report

February 17, 2025
Overall Record: 3-0

Last Week’s Results (3-0)
Feb. 14 (Fri.) – PURDUE FORT WAYNE (W, 14-0)
Feb. 15 (Sat.) – PURDUE FORT WAYNE (W, 10-1)
Feb. 16 (Sun.) – PURDUE FORT WAYNE (W, 8-1)

This Week’s Schedule
Feb. 18 (Tue.) – SOUTHERN, 2 p.m. CT (SEC Network +)
Feb. 19 (Wed.) – at Nicholls, 6:30 p.m. CT (ESPN +)
Feb. 21 (Fri.) – OMAHA, 4 p.m. CT (SEC Network +)
Feb. 22 (Sat.) – OMAHA, 2 p.m. CT (SEC Network +)
Feb. 23 (Sun.) – OMAHA, 1 p.m. CT (SEC Network +)

Tigers Update
• LSU opened the 2025 season with a three-game sweep of Purdue Fort Wayne in Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field … the Tigers’ 14-0 win on Friday marked LSU’s 24th straight victory in a season-opening game.

• Sophomore left-hander Kade Anderson logged an excellent outing on Friday in LSU’s 2025 season opener, working 5.0 shutout innings in a win over Purdue Fort Wayne … Anderson limited the Mastodons to just four singles, and he recorded one walk and eight strikeouts, firing 83 pitches … Anderson retired seven of the first eight Purdue Fort Wayne batters he faced in the outing.

• Junior second baseman Daniel Dickinson led LSU to a season-opening sweep of Purdue Fort Wayne last weekend, batting .556 (5-for-9) with one double, one homer, seven RBI and five runs scored … Dickinson also walked once, was hit by a pitch twice and recorded a stolen base, as he posted a .667 on-base percentage … he paced the Tigers’ 14-hit attack on Friday by going 3-for-4 at the plate with one double and five RBI, and his two-run single in the first inning was the highlight of LSU’s five-run outburst … Dickinson launched LSU’s first home run on the season on Saturday, a two-run shot that gave the Tigers a 2-0 lead in the first inning.

• Freshman leftfielder Derek Curiel batted .364 (4-for-11) in last weekend’s sweep over Purdue Fort Wayne with one homer, three RBI, two runs scored, two walks, one steal and a .462 on-base percentage … he launched a two-out, two-run homer – the first dinger of his collegiate career – in the fifth inning on Saturday to expand LSU’s lead from 2-1 to 5-1 … he added an RBI single in Sunday’s win to punctuate a five-run LSU fourth inning.

• Redshirt sophomore right-hander Chase Shores defeated Purdue Fort Wayne on Sunday in his first appearances on the mound in nearly two years … Shores, who suffered a season-ending elbow injury in March 2023 and redshirted last season while recovering from Tommy John surgery, threw 67 pitches in 5.0 innings on Sunday, limiting the Mastodons to one run on three hits with no walks and seven strikeouts.

• The LSU pitching staff posted a 0.67 ERA in last weekend’s series versus Purdue Fort Wayne, allowing just two runs on 14 hits in 27.0 innings with two walks and 45 strikeouts … the Tigers limited the Mastodons to a .156 cumulative batting average and gave up just one extra-base hit, a double.

• LSU hit .340 (33-for-97) in the Purdue Fort Wayne series with seven doubles, one triple, four homers, 32 runs and five stolen bases … the Tigers posted a .488 on-base percentage, walked 23 times and were hit by a pitch on seven occasions … LSU’s five-run, first-inning rally in Friday’s game was the largest for the Tigers in the first inning of a season opener since 2012, when they scored five runs in the opening frame against Air Force.

Check back for updates as polls are released on Feb. 17-18, 2025.

 

Team	Baseball America	D1Baseball	Perfect Game	Coaches	NCBWA
Texas A&M	1	1	1		1
LSU	2	3	2		3
Tennessee	3	4	5		2
Arkansas	4	5	12		4
Florida State	5	9	6		5
Florida	6	10	11		10
Virginia	7	2	3		9
Clemson	8	14	8		8
Oregon State	9	7	9		6
North Carolina	10	6	10		7
Georgia	11	8	4		12
Texas	12	16	7		16
Vanderbilt	13	15	15		14
NC State	14	12	–		13
Wake Forest	15	13	16		15
Mississippi State	16	18	–		17
Oklahoma State	17	19	–		–
Duke	18	17	18		19
Oregon	19	11	14		11
Dallas Baptist	20	20	17		18
UC Irvine	21	–	–		–
UC Santa Barbara	22	21	22		20
Kentucky	23	–	–		–
TCU	24	22	13		21
Michigan	25	–	–		–
Nebraska	–	23	–		22
Troy	–	24	–		24
Cincinnati	–	25	–		–
Coastal Carolina	–	–	19		–
Oklahoma	–	–	20		–
West Virginia	–	–	21		25
Stanford	–	–	23		–
Arizona	–	–	24		–
Auburn	–	–	25		–
Southern Miss	–	–	–		23