Ole Miss (28-12, 10-8 SEC) took the hardest fall of any team in the D1Baseball top 25 to No. 23, while Southern Miss (27-13, 12-6 Sun Belt) stepped up one spot to No. 22.
The Golden Eagles had the only winning week of Mississippi’s major baseball programs, finishing 3-1 after returning home from an eight-game road trip. It began with an 8-7 midweek victory over Southeastern Louisiana that was capped off by a two-out, ninth-inning grand slam from Nick Monistere.
Christian Ostrander’s crew carried the momentum over to the home weekend series against Georgia State, romping to an 8-1 win on Thursday. The Panthers returned the favor in run-rule fashion in game two, but Southern Miss came out on top in a back-and-forth 15-9 victory in game three to seal the series. The Golden Eagles hit 12 big flies across the weekend and are now tied for first in the Sun Belt for total home runs.
Southern Miss has work to do to improve its current RPI of 42 with one month remaining, entertaining Tulane and Southeastern Louisiana in midweek rematches before a road series in Boone, N.C., against fourth-place App State.
The Rebels slipped from No. 11 to No. 23 after a 1-3 week, now 5-5 in their last 10 contests. A lackluster Tuesday loss against Little Rock put the onus on the red and blue to reignite on the road against a struggling South Carolina.
But Ole Miss fell flat in the Easter weekend set, dropping the first two games 3-2 and 7-2. Mike Bianco’s club bounced back in game three, trouncing the Gamecocks 12-2 in a run-rule shortened 7-inning affair. It was South Carolina’s first SEC series win of 2025 and the second straight league series loss for the Rebels.
A blistering final month of the regular season for Ole Miss, in which the Rebels will square off with three current top 15 teams in the last four weekends, begins with the Governor’s Cup against in-state rival Mississippi State on Tuesday. Then, Ole Miss will take on No. 9 Vanderbilt during Double Decker weekend.
Mississippi State remained unranked.
The full D1Baseball top 25 poll can be found below:
- Texas
- Clemson
- Oregon State
- Florida State
- Arkansas
- Tennessee
- LSU
- North Carolina
- Vanderbilt
- Georgia
- Auburn
- UC Irvine
- Oregon
- Oklahoma
- UCLA
- Arizona
- West Virginia
- Alabama
- Louisville
- Troy
- Coastal Carolina
- Southern Miss
- Ole Miss
- Georgia Tech
- NC State
