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Cajun baseball getting notice

by Walter Pierce

The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns baseball team is showing up in another preseason poll - this time at No. 24 in the USA Today Preseason Top 25 Coaches Poll.

The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns baseball team is showing up in another preseason poll - this time at No. 24 in the USA Today Preseason Top 25 Coaches Poll. The Cajuns squad is ranked 14th in Baseball America's preseason poll and 23rd in the Collegiate Baseball Preseason Top 25.

Our friends across the Basin are ranked second in the USA Today poll.

The team opens the 2014 season on Valentine's Day at 6 p.m. with a four-game series against Eastern Illinois.

USA Today Preseason Top 25
 
Rank    Team                              Previous
1          Cal State Fullerton (18)     10
2          LSU (6)                            6
3          Oregon State                    4
4          Mississippi State (4)          2
5          Florida State                     13
6          Virginia                             11
7          Oregon                             15
8          Vanderbilt                         9
9          North Carolina State          5
10        UCLA                                1
11        Indiana                             7
12        North Carolina                   3
13        Louisville                           8
14        South Carolina                  12
15        Rice                                 15
16        Clemson                           25
17        Miami (FL)                        NR
18        Oklahoma State                21
19        Arizona State                    19
20        Florida                              NR
21        Kansas State                    14
22        Texas                               NR
23        TCU                                  NR
24        Louisiana                          NR
25        Stanford                           NR