The Gamecocks won in the mid-week over The Citadel, but they dropped two of three to the Arkansas Razorbacks at Founders Park over the weekend. Despite the series loss, though, not much changed for the 9-9 YardCocks in the national polls.
D1Baseball re-instated the Gamecocks as a ranked team last week, and they hung on to a top-25 spot, sliding down to #24 from #20 in last week's ranking.
Perfect Game did not rank South Carolina baseball last week, and they elected to keep Mark Kingston's team out of their top-25 again this week.
Baseball America dropped USC three spots to 22nd after slotting them in at 19 a week ago.
There was no change in the USA Today college baseball ranking of Carolina as the garnet and black stay put at #21.
The Gamecocks moved up a spot in the NCBWA (National College Baseball Writers Association) rankings, climbing from 20th to 19th.
Slipping from 16th to 18th this week, South Carolina fell two placed in College Baseball Central's top-25.
Things won't get easier for the team moving forward. USC has four more SEC series remaining on the regular season schedule, and three of the four series come against ranked opponents (and the fourth will be on the road).