Georgia baseball rises in coaches poll after winning SEC title

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The Georgia Bulldogs have moved up to the No. 4 spot in the May 11 USA TODAY Sports baseball coaches poll after sweeping the LSU Tigers and winning the SEC regular season championship. Georgia finally moved past the Texas Longhorns in the coaches poll.

Georgia is red hot and has won nine straight games including back-to-back SEC sweeps. The Bulldogs (41-11, 21-6 SEC) have lost just one SEC series all season. Georgia looks like a lock to earn a top eight seed in the NCAA Tournament.

"We'll celebrate tonight, but the job's not finished," Georgia star catcher and SEC player of the week Daniel Jackson said after the Bulldogs won the SEC championship, but still had a game left in their series against LSU. "Just because we won the SEC regular season does not mean we stop doing what we are doing. The chance to talk about just kind of coming out after you did that and really keeping your focus."

The Bulldogs want to close out the regular season strong. Georgia finishes up SEC play with a challenging three-game series at the No. 6 Auburn Tigers. The Dawgs have clinched the No. 1 seed in the SEC Tournament and an automatic berth into the quarterfinals.

USA TODAY Sports baseball coaches poll for May 11​

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Rank	Team	Record	PTS
1	UCLA Bruins	46-5	750
2	North Carolina Tar Heels	40-9	709
3	Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets	42-8	693
4	Georgia Bulldogs	41-11	664
5	Texas Longhorns	37-12	595
6	Auburn Tigers	35-15	589
7	Oregon State Beavers	40-11	546
8	Florida State Seminoles	36-15	485
9	Southern Miss Golden Eagles	37-14	467
10	Texas A&M Aggies	37-12	463
11	West Virginia Mountaineers	35-12	450
12	Mississippi State Bulldogs	38-14	401
13	USC Trojans	41-12	360
14	Arkansas Razorbacks	34-18	342
15	Oregon Ducks	36-14	325
16	Alabama Crimson Tide	35-17	291
17	Kansas Jayhawks	37-15	290
18	Coastal Carolina Chanticleers	34-17	260
19	Ole Miss Rebels	34-18	241
20	Florida Gators	34-18	221
21	Nebraska Cornhuskers	37-14	136
22	Arizona State Sun Devils	34-17	102
23	Oklahoma State Cowboys	33-18	90
24	Boston College Eagles	36-17	72
25	Jacksonville State Gamecocks	40-11	53

Schools Dropped Out​

No. 21 Oklahoma; No. 25 Virginia;

Others Receiving Votes​

Oklahoma 45; Cincinnati 41; Wake Forest 16; Tennessee 10; UC Santa Barbara 9; Virginia 8; Mercer 7; California Baptist 6; Miami (FL) 5; Missouri State 4; Kent State 3; UTSA 1;

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