With the college baseball season set to begin in less than a month, both preseason Top 25 rankings from Perfect Game and D1Baseball are out and Kentucky Baseball is nowhere to be found.
After their best season in program history, the Bat Cats finished No. 5 in the final Perfect Game and No. 3 in the final D1Baseball polls of 2024.
Despite the success in the past few years, Kentucky has once again been forced to prove it deserves a ranking on the field.
There are multiple reasons to explain why this has happened for the past few seasons.