UNC baseball moves up in USA TODAY Sports coaches poll
The UNC baseball program is moving up in the USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll, earning the No. 2 spot.
The North Carolina Tar Heels' baseball program earned a big series win over the weekend. They won the first two games against then No. 2 Georgia Tech, earning the series win .
Even with the loss on Sunday, the Diamond Heels came out on top in the series, earning a huge win. Now, they are moving up in the latest USA TODAY Sports poll . North Carolina jumped Georgia Tech going from No.
3 to No. 2 in the latest poll, behind only No. 1 UCLA.
It's the highest ranking the Tar Heels have had since the 2017 season. The Diamond Heels' used stellar pitching and great hitting to earn the series win and find themselves playing the best baseball of the season. Below is the full USA TODAY Sports coaches poll: Rank Team Record PTS 1st Prev Chg Hi/Lo 1 UCLA Bruins 36-3 750 30 1 - 1/2 2 North Carolina Tar Heels 33-7 713 0 3 1 2/14 3 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 32-7 675 0 2 1 2/5 4 Texas Longhorns 30-8 663 0 4 - 2/4 5 Georgia Bulldogs 32-9 623 0 5 - 4/13 6 Oregon State Beavers 30-8 589 0 6 - 6/18 7 Texas A&M Aggies 31-7 581 0 7 - 7/NR 8 Florida State Seminoles 28-11 498 0 10 2 6/17 9 Auburn Tigers 27-12 465 0 11 2 4/12 10 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers 28-11 450 0 8 2 7/25 11 Mississippi State Bulldogs 30-10 397 0 16 5 3/16 12 Virginia Cavaliers 28-13 376 0 12 - 11/NR 13 Oklahoma Sooners 27-12 360 0 14 1 8/NR 14 West Virginia Mountaineers 27-9 350 0 15 1 12/NR 15 Alabama Crimson Tide 28-13 318 0 13 2 9/NR 16 Nebraska Cornhuskers 31-9 254 0 25 9 16/NR 16 Kansas Jayhawks 29-11 254 0 21 5 16/NR 18 Ole Miss Rebels 29-12 246 0 23 5 18/NR 19 Southern Miss Golden Eagles 28-12 213 0 20 1 7/20 20 Boston College Eagles 31-12 198 0 24 4 20/25 21 Oregon Ducks 28-11 192 0 19 2 10/NR 22 Florida Gators 28-13 172 0 18 4 8/25 23 USC Trojans 30-11 163 0 9 14 8/NR 24 Arkansas Razorbacks 26-15 109 0 17 7 5/24 25 Arizona State Sun Devils 28-13 70 0 22 3 21/NR Others Receiving Votes Jacksonville State 33; Wake Forest 8; UC Santa Barbara 7; Miami (FL) 6; Liberty 6; UCF 3; North Carolina State 3; Missouri State 3; UTSA 1; Purdue 1; Follow us @TarHeelsWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of North Carolina Tar Heels news, notes and opinions.