Baseball America Ranks Virginia No. 5 in Preseason Poll

UVA was ranked No. 5 in the Baseball America Preseason Top 25 for the second season in a row

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For the second season in a row, Virginia baseball is ranked No. 5 in the Baseball America Preseason Top 25 poll. 

No. 🖐 in the preseason for the second-straight year per @BaseballAmerica #GoHoos pic.twitter.com/G2KDmx645e

— Virginia Baseball (@UVABaseball) January 24, 2022

UVA is coming off of the program's fifth College World Series appearance last June. The Cavaliers are ranked No. 5 in the Baseball American preseason poll, No. 24 in the Collegiate Baseball preseason poll, but are unranked in the D1 Baseball preseason poll.

See the full top 25 rankings for each poll here: 

Baseball America	Collegiate Baseball	D1 Baseball
1. Texas	1. Texas	1. Texas
2. Vanderbilt	2. Vanderbilt	2. Arkansas
3. Mississippi State	3. LSU	3. Vanderbilt
4. Notre Dame	4. Texas Tech	4. Mississippi State
5. Virginia	5. Stanford	5. Ole Miss
6. Florida	6. Florida	6. Stanford
7. Stanford	7. Oklahoma State	7. Oklahoma State
8. Arkansas	8. East Carolina	8. LSU
9. Ole Miss	9. Mississippi State	9. Florida
10. LSU	10. Notre Dame	10. NC State
11. Oregon State	11. Georgia Tech	11. Florida State
12. Florida State	12. Florida State	12. East Carolina
13. Arizona	13. TCU	13. Notre Dame
14. Georgia	14. UC Irvine	14. Texas Tech
15. East Carolina	15. Louisiana Tech	15. Arizona
16. NC State	16. Central Michigan	16. Georgia
17. Tennessee	17. UC Santa Barbara	17. TCU
18. UC Irvine	18. UCLA	18. Oregon State
19. Oklahoma State	19. Ole Miss	19. Tennessee
20. Nebraska	20. Arkansas	20. UC Irvine
21. Georgia Tech	21. Oregon	21. Georgia Tech
22. UCLA	22. Arizona	22. Dallas Baptist
23. Texas Tech	23. Miami	23. Duke
24. Old Dominion	24. Virginia	24. Long Beach State
25. Miami	25. North Carolina	25. Miami

Virginia begins its 2022 season on Friday, February 18th against Bellarmine in the Jerry Bryson Classic in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. UVA will also play Gardner-Webb and NJIT in Boiling Springs before returning to Charlottesville for the home opener on February 22nd against VMI. 

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