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#Pack9 Nationally Ranked In NCBWA, USA Today Preseason Polls
2/4/2021 12:45:00 PM | Baseball
RALEIGH – The NC State baseball team has been featured among the top 20 of two more major preseason polls ahead of the 2021 season, as it checks in at No. 11 on the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Poll and No. 12 on USA Today's Baseball Coaches Poll.
NC State will begin the season nationally ranked in all six major polls, as it sits at No. 13 on DI Baseball and Collegiate Baseball's lists, 16th on Perfect Game's Preseason Top 25 and 17th on Baseball America's poll.
Additionally, this is the 19th-straight year the squad has either started or finished the season nationally ranked.
The Wolfpack finished 14-3 in the shortened 2020 season, highlighted by a 12-0 start for the second-straight year, and finished as high as No. 9 nationally while staying ranked by all six major polls the entire season. In 2019, NC State posted a 42-19 record and earned its ninth NCAA Regional bid in the last 10 years.
The team returns 25 players from last season, including All-ACC performer and freshman All-American Tyler McDonough (2019) and Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-American Jose Torres (2020). NC State additionally welcomes 12 freshmen and junior college transfer Danny Carnazzo to the 2021 roster.
NC State recently announced its 2021 ACC schedule, and is set to host six three-game weekend series at Doak Field at Dail Park. Its nonconference schedule will be released at a later time.
Game times and TV designations will also be announced at a later time, as well as more information on capacity and ticket information.
NC State will begin the season nationally ranked in all six major polls, as it sits at No. 13 on DI Baseball and Collegiate Baseball's lists, 16th on Perfect Game's Preseason Top 25 and 17th on Baseball America's poll.
Additionally, this is the 19th-straight year the squad has either started or finished the season nationally ranked.
The Wolfpack finished 14-3 in the shortened 2020 season, highlighted by a 12-0 start for the second-straight year, and finished as high as No. 9 nationally while staying ranked by all six major polls the entire season. In 2019, NC State posted a 42-19 record and earned its ninth NCAA Regional bid in the last 10 years.
The team returns 25 players from last season, including All-ACC performer and freshman All-American Tyler McDonough (2019) and Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-American Jose Torres (2020). NC State additionally welcomes 12 freshmen and junior college transfer Danny Carnazzo to the 2021 roster.
NC State recently announced its 2021 ACC schedule, and is set to host six three-game weekend series at Doak Field at Dail Park. Its nonconference schedule will be released at a later time.
Game times and TV designations will also be announced at a later time, as well as more information on capacity and ticket information.
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