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The defending national champion Gamecock baseball team is ranked fourteenth in Collegiate Baseball's Preseason Top 40 poll. Other teams from the state of South Carolina in the poll are: Clemson (4); Coastal Carolina (24); and College of Charleston (35). The Citadel received votes.