re: Baseball Recruiting Discussion

South Carolina's 2019 recruiting class (for this coming 2020 season) has been ranked as the #3 recruiting class in the nation by Collegiate Baseball.

2019 NCAA Div. I Top-40 Recruiting Rankings by Collegiate Baseball

1. Vanderbilt
2. Florida
3. South Carolina
4. Ole Miss
5. Texas Christian
6. Louisiana State
7. Alabama
8. Arizona State
9. Auburn
10. Oklahoma State
11. Arizona
12. Texas
13. North Carolina
14. Clemson
15. Miami (Fla.)
16. Arkansas
17. Mississippi State
18. Utah
19. Georgia Tech
20. Virginia
21. UCLA
22. Louisville
23. Oregon State
24. Tennessee
25. Kentucky
26. Stanford
27. N.C. State
28. Coastal Carolina
29. Oklahoma
30. Grand Canyon
31. Florida St.
32. Missouri
33. Dallas Baptist
34. Rice
35. Missouri State
36. Michigan
37. Texas A&M
38. Texas Tech
39. Houston
40. East Carolina

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TUCSON, Ariz. – The University of South Carolina baseball team's 2019 recruiting class has been selected as the third-best in the country by Collegiate Baseball Magazine, the publication announced this afternoon (Monday, Sept. 23). The Gamecocks' class is now nationally ranked by two publications after Baseball America had Carolina at No. 11.

South Carolina is one of 13 schools from the Southeastern Conference in CB's top-40 list. The SEC also comprises the top four (Vanderbilt, Florida, South Carolina, Ole Miss) and seven of the top-10 classes. The recruiting class features six players (Andrew Peters, Brennan Milone, Noah Myers, Brannon Jordan, Thomas Farr and Jeff Heinrich) that were selected in the 2019 MLB First-Year Player Draft.

This is the third time in the last five years the Gamecocks have had a top-three recruiting class by Collegiate Baseball. Carolina had the second-best class in 2015 and was third in the country in 2017.

Carolina will scrimmage today (Monday, Sept. 23) at Founders Park with first pitch set for 3:15 p.m. The Gamecocks head to N.C. State for its first scrimmage against outside competition Sunday, Sept. 29 at 3 p.m. in Raleigh.

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Good work done by the staff - we didn't even rate the postseason, but will pull in a strong class just the same. Lots of JUCOs in this class - Coach Kingston stated that it's the most talented group of JUCOs in the nation. Hopefully it all translates into the program getting back to it's winning ways, and a post-season berth for 2020.....