D1Baseball, Baseball America, and the NCBWA all ranked NC State in their Preseason Top-25s, placing them 13th, 18th, and 17th respectively. Despite there being a lot of turnover to the roster after the Wolfpack’s College World Series run last year, there were still high expectations for NC State heading into the 2025 season.
After starting off the season with a 3-game sweep of Fordham, the Wolfpack has lost 5 straight, losing to Liberty and Richmond in midweek games and to Ohio State, Alabama, and Coastal Carolina at the Jax College Baseball Classic in Florida this past weekend.
As a result, it’s not shocking that the Wolfpack fell out of the NCBWA and D1Baseball’s Top-25 rankings this week, while Baseball America barely kept them in the rankings, at number 23, before their 1-5 loss to Richmond earlier today.