Baseball Tabbed No. 2 In Preseason Poll
12/22/2014 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
FORT WORTH - For the ninth time in the last 12 years the TCU baseball team has earned a spot in the preseason polls coming in at No. 2 in the Collegiate Baseball poll released today. The ranking is TCU's highest since debuting at No. 1 in 2011.
The Horned Frogs are no strangers to the preseason top 20 as they have been ranked 19th or higher in each of the last six pre-season polls. Since Jim Schlossnagle took over the program in 2004, the Frogs have been ranked 21 or higher nine times.
TCU returns 13 letterwinners from last year's College World Series team. Additionally, four of the everyday field starters return as do eight pitchers. This past fall, TCU welcomed 16 new faces to the squad.
No strangers to tough scheduling, the Horned Frogs 2015 slate of games features 22 games against opponents ranked in the top 35. TCU will play games against No. 1 Vanderbilt, No. 10 UCLA, No. 22 Rice and No. 35 Loyola-Marymount in addition to weekend series against No. 5 Oklahoma State, No. 7 Texas, No. 9 Texas Tech, No. 13 Cal Poly, No. 19 Arizona State and No. 32 Wichita State. Two other Horned Frog opponents earned votes in the preseason poll.
