Baseball debuts at No. 2 in Perfect Game Baseball poll

BATON ROUGE, La. — LSU is No. 2 in the 2017 Perfect Game preseason poll released Wednesday, marking the Tigers’ second No. 2 ranking in the past three weeks. LSU is also No. 2 in the Collegiate Baseball poll that was announced in late December.

LSU is one of five Southeastern Conference teams appearing in the 2017 Perfect Game preseason Top 10, along with No. 4 Florida, No. 5 South Carolina, No. 8 Ole Miss and No. 9 Vanderbilt.

TCU, which LSU will face on March 3 at Minute Maid Park in Houston, is No. 1 in the Perfect Game poll. LSU’s other non-conference opponents appearing in the poll are No. 13 Louisiana-Lafayette and No. 23 Maryland.

The Tigers begin preseason practice on Friday, January 27. LSU opens the 2017 season at 7 p.m. on Friday, February 17 versus Air Force in Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field.

For more about the Perfect Game poll, visit http://www.perfectgame.org/Articles/View.aspx?article=13435.

2017 Perfect Game Preseason Poll
1. TCU
2. LSU
3. Florida State
4. Florida
5. South Carolina
6. Louisville
7. Oregon State
8. Ole Miss
9. Vanderbilt
10. East Carolina
11. Oklahoma State
12. North Carolina
13. Louisiana
14. NC State
15. Cal State Fullerton
16. Stanford
17. Texas
18. Washington
19. Clemson
20. Houston
21. Rice
22. Cal Poly
23. Maryland
24. Coastal Carolina
25. Arizona