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College  | Rankings | 5/20/2026

DII/DIII/NAIA Rankings Update: May 20

Nick Herfordt
There is a reason the preseason pick to win it all rarely does. College baseball's postseason is a gauntlet — double elimination, best-of-three’s, then a full World Series format — and the team that looks unbeatable in February has to prove it again in May against opponents who have had just as long to get ready. Plenty of programs have entered the tournament as the obvious favorite and gone home early. It happens every year. Nobody should be shocked when it does. Top-ranked teams flaming out in regional weekends happens so many times it has become its own genre of schadenfreude

Which makes this particular moment worth noting. The Perfect Game preseason picks to win the NAIA, NCAA Division II, and NCAA Division III national titles — Tennessee Wesleyan, UT Tyler, and the University of Lynchburg — are all still alive heading into the final rounds. All three won their regional championships. All three are a series win away, or have already advanced to their respective World Series.



Alongside the penultimate rankings of the year, a look at each of the three Perfect Game preseason favorites — and whether they have what it takes to pull off the rare feat of starting and finishing the season number one.

NCAA DII 
Rank Prev School State Record Last Wk.
1 1 Tampa Spartans FL 44-8 3-0
2 2 Colorado Mesa Mavericks CO 52-4 3-0
3 3 Texas Tyler Patriots TX 46-11 3-1
4 6 Catawba Indians NC 47-11 3-0
5 7 Point Loma Sea Lions CA 47-11 3-1
6 10 West Chester Golden Rams PA 41-10 3-0
7 11 Francis Marion Patriots SC 45-12 3-0
8 4 North Greenville Trailblazers SC 49-12 2-2
9 8 Grand Valley State Lakers MI 48-8 3-0
10 5 Pittsburg State Gorillas KS 45-11 2-2
11 16 Augustana Vikings SD 44-14 3-1
12 20 West Florida Argos FL 43-14 3-1
13 9 Seton Hill Griffins PA 42-11 1-2
14 22 Central Missouri Mules MO 37-15 3-0
15 12 Young Harris Mountain Lions GA 41-18 2-2
16 13 Angelo State Rams TX 42-19 2-2
17 14 Rollins Tars FL 36-16 2-2
18 NR Millersville Marauders PA 39-16 3-0
19 19 Lenoir-Rhyne Bears NC 37-13-1 0-0
20 15 East Stroudsburg Warriors PA 37-16 1-2
21 24 Molloy Lions NY 41-10 2-1
22 17 Wingate Bulldogs NC 40-19 1-2
23 18 Belmont Abbey Crusaders NC 38-16 0-2
24 23 North Georgia Nighthawks GA 42-16 1-2
25 21 Minnesota State Mavericks MN 39-15 0-2
DROP 25 Wayne State Warriors MI


UT Tyler won back-to-back elimination games on Saturday with the season dangling by a thread. In the first game, Coleson Abel threw 8 1/3 innings and struck out 11. The second time, Dylan Blomquist threw a complete-game shutout — the program's first since 2020 — and did it with ten strikeouts and one walk. Against Angelo State. At home. When it had to happen. If you need to know what kind of program UT Tyler is in 2026, that Saturday tells you everything.

The Patriots are 46-11 and headed to Grand Junction to face second ranked Colorado Mesa in the Super Regional. Win that, and it's Cary — the Division II World Series — and a chance to finish what they started when they went to North Carolina last year and came home without the trophy. That is the only thing left on the checklist for a program that has, in two seasons, turned a respectable mid-major into a legitimate national force.

"We're never done growing. We're never done getting better... "
Coach Brent Porche

BUILT DIFFERENT

The preseason case for UT Tyler was straightforward: this was a veteran team with elite contact hitters, a proven staff, and postseason experience that money can't buy. What the regular season revealed was something more. This isn't a team that wins because it has one or two transcendent talents. It wins because it is structurally difficult to beat.

Cole Ketzner hit .362 with 12 home runs. Connor Clark hit .340 and stole 33 bases. Tanner Hornback hit .364. Kaston Mason drove in 51 runs. Brock Bearden hit .331 with seven home runs. The team batted .312 and got on base at a .443 clip. Nine runs a game, every game, all season, in an all-conference schedule with zero cupcakes on it. There was no week off. There was no opponent they were supposed to blow out. Every win was earned.

Drew Schmidt, the preseason Player of the Year, hit .287 — a step back from last year's .410 — and the offense never flinched. That's what depth does. That's what it looks like when a staff of coaches has recruited and developed a roster instead of just a lineup.

THE ARM THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING

When Coleson Abel arrived from Texas Tech and Lamar, the expectation was that he'd be a useful depth piece — a transfer who could eat innings and keep the bullpen fresh. What he became was something else. Seven wins. Zero losses. A 2.09 ERA. And on the biggest Saturday of the season, he took the ball with the program's year on the line and looked like he belonged on a 40-man roster.

But the most surprising pitching story of this season isn't Abel. It's Blomquist.

Dylan Blomquist has been at UT Tyler for five years. He has logged over 200 career innings. He has earned All-LSC honors. He is, by any measure, the definition of a program guy — the kind of player who holds an organization together while the talent cycles in and out. What no one quite expected was that in his final season, when everything was on the line, he would go out and throw the most important complete game the program has ever seen. Nine innings. Ten strikeouts. Zero runs. The Rams didn't score. Not once in a winner-take-all regional final. Blomquist closed the door and sent his team to Grand Junction, and if that's not a legacy moment, the phrase has no meaning.

HOW TO LOSE WITHOUT LOSING

The 11 losses are worth examining, because they reveal as much about this program as the 46 wins. UT Tyler lost games at Angelo State, at West Texas A&M, at Eastern New Mexico. They dropped a couple at home to St. Edward's. Every single time, they came back and won the series. There is not one series loss on this schedule. Zero.

In a double-elimination tournament — which is exactly the format waiting for them at the World Series — that characteristic is not incidental. It is the ballgame. Teams that lose and spiral, that carry a bad game into the next one and let it compound, get eliminated. Teams that lose and reset win championships. UT Tyler has been practicing that skill all season long, and they've gotten very good at it.

THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Last year's team went to Cary and came home without a ring. That's the fact that has hung over this program since the long disappointing ride back to Tyler, and it's the fact that has quietly driven every rep, every practice, every close win in a tight series this spring. This is a program that knows what the World Series feels like. It also knows what it feels like to leave without winning it.

The last out of the 2026 Division II season hasn't been made yet. But the team most likely to make it is wearing orange.

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NAIA 
Rank Prev School State Record Last Wk.
1 1 Denison Big Red OH 43-1 3-0
2 2 Lynchburg Hornets VA 39-6-1 3-0
3 4 Endicott Gulls MA 38-10 3-1
4 5 Salisbury Seagulls MD 35-9 3-0
5 7 Rowan Profs NJ 35-5 3-0
6 8 Johns Hopkins Blue Jays MD 36-9 3-0
7 9 Salve Regina Seahawks RI 39-6 3-0
8 3 UW-Whitewater Warhawks WI 43-6 2-2
9 12 Baldwin Wallace Yellow Jackets OH 34-10 3-0
10 13 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Stags CA 34-13 3-0
11 14 East Texas Baptist Tigers TX 36-10 3-0
12 6 Shenandoah Hornets VA 37-12 2-2
13 17 Adrian Bulldogs MI 35-11 3-2
14 10 Kean Cougars NJ 31-13-1 2-2
15 20 University of Chicago  IL 30-13 3-0
16 NR Messiah Falcons PA
17 11 Cortland State Red Dragons NY 30-12-1 1-2
18 NR Bethel Royals MN 34-6 3-0
19 16 Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens CA 33-14 2-2
20 15 Tufts Jumbos MA 31-11 1-2
21 19 Russell Sage Gators NY 37-8 1-2
22 23 Bridgewater Eagles VA 35-15 2-2
23 21 Transylvania Pioneers KY 30-14 1-2
24 24 Washington Bears MO 30-13 2-2
25 18 Belhaven Blazers MS 31-15 0-2
DROP 22 Rhodes Lynx TN 30-17 1-2


Preseason number one Tennessee Wesleyan spent half a season banged up and slowly slipping in the rankings - although they were never out of striking distance. The 10th position after being swept at home by Johnson (another team headed to Lewiston) was the worst position of the season. Now everyone is healthy, the pitching staff is on another level, and the Bulldogs are heading back to Lewiston for a third straight shot at a third national title.

The scoreboard read 9-1. The bracket was settled. And somewhere in the noise of Hunter Wright Stadium in Kingsport, Billy Berry finally said what the regular season had made nearly unsayable. "It has been an up-and-down year," the TWU head coach told reporters after the Opening Round title, "but at this point in time it really doesn't matter because we are playing extremely well right now when it matters."

That is the whole story of this Tennessee Wesleyan team in six words: playing extremely well when it matters. Forty-three wins. A third straight AAC Tournament championship. A ninth overall trip to Lewiston. And a roster that spent long stretches of the regular season missing two of its best players, only to get everyone back healthy at exactly the right time and start looking like the preseason version of itself.

"It's become the standard in our program that you want to be one of those ten teams." — Coach Billy Berry

THE OFFENSE WAS NEVER THE PROBLEM

To understand what made this year difficult, you have to understand what Tennessee Wesleyan lost. Josh Shelly — the program's most dangerous bat, a guy who batted .406 with 16 home runs last season — missed significant time. So did shortstop Rob Gordon, whose presence in the lineup changes how opposing staffs pitch to everyone around him. Berry didn't talk about it publicly during the season, but he was candid afterward: "We played almost a month without Rob Gordon, our shortstop. We played almost a month without Josh Shelly, who I think might be the best player in the country if he stays healthy all year long with the numbers he's putting up."

What makes TWU genuinely frightening is what happened when everyone returned. Shelly hit .418 on the season with 14 home runs. Allan Gil Fernandez — the AAC Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year — hit .397 with 12 home runs and was arguably the best addition to any lineup in the NAIA this year. Kolton Reynolds hit .391 with 15 home runs. David Ballenilla hit .356. The team batted .340 and scored 529 runs. They put up 24 combined home runs in three Opening Round games alone, outscoring their bracket opponents 34-11. This offense is not a depth chart. It is a conveyor belt.

THE PITCHING STAFF THAT CHANGED THE SEASON

If the offense was always going to be there, the pitching was the legitimate question mark entering the year. TWU had lost two of its three primary starters. What emerged from that uncertainty was something Berry called phenomenal — and the postseason numbers back him up completely.

Justin Jackson threw a 10-strikeout complete game over LSU Alexandria to open the bracket. Cameron Goffar followed with a complete game of his own against Indiana Wesleyan — four hits, no walks, three strikeouts. McGwire Taylor started the title game against top-seeded Webber International and allowed just one earned run in seven innings. The staff combined for a 2.45 ERA across the regular season's most important weeks, and in six postseason games — through the AAC Tournament and the Opening Round — they have given up a total of 12 runs.

"The story of the postseason has been our pitching staff," Berry said. "Our pitching staff has been phenomenal. Pitching Coach [Daniel] Wood has done a great job of just continuing to prepare those guys as the year went on and just continuing to work and tweak and doing the things that needed to be done. We saw that over the course of four days in the conference tournament and you saw it for three days in the regional. And they were outstanding."

WHAT LEWISTON ACTUALLY MEANS

Tennessee Wesleyan has been to the NAIA World Series nine times. They have won it twice — 2012 and 2019. "Obviously when you're one of 10 teams who has an opportunity to play for a national championship, it's what you work for all year long," Berry said. "And fair or unfair, it's become the standard in our program that you want to be one of those 10 teams and that's what you're working for."

TWU enters the NAIA World Series as the eighth seed - a position drawn based on their overall season, not the way they have been playing the last month. That means the bracket will not be kind. However the Bulldogs have been here before, and more importantly, they have been here before while not playing their best baseball. They are playing their best baseball now.

The preseason case for this team rested on a lineup full of NAIA All-Americans and a coaching staff that has produced national champions before. The regular season tested that case in ways nobody anticipated — injuries, inconsistency, a stretch where the polls stopped believing. What the postseason has revealed is what Billy Berry has always known about this group: they are built not for February, not for March, but for this. For Lewiston. For the moment when the bracket is set and experience is the only currency that matters.

The Bulldogs have been here nine times. They know what Harris Field looks like in the morning before the gates open. They know what it feels like to lose a game in Lewiston and come back the next day and with a resounding win. That is old hat. In a double-elimination tournament against the ten best teams in the country, that is just about everything.

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NCAA DIII
Rank Prev School State Record Last Wk.
1 1 Georgia Gwinnett Grizzlies GA 52-7 3-0
2 2 Taylor Trojans IN 52-5 3-0
3 8 Tennessee Wesleyan Bulldogs TN 45-14 3-0
4 6 Johnson Royals TN 39-12 3-0
5 10 Southeastern Fire FL 43-16 4-1
6 12 Doane Tigers NE 51-10 3-0
7 3 Cumberlands Patriots KY 49-10 2-2
8 13 Lewis-Clark State Warriors ID 40-10 3-0
9 7 Hope International Royals CA 44-15 3-2
10 4 Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes KS 53-10 2-2
11 9 LSU Shreveport Pilots LA 44-17 2-2
12 5 Bellevue Bruins NE 53-6 2-2
13 11 Missouri Baptist Spartans MO 40-12 1-2
14 21 William Carey Crusaders MS 45-22 3-0
15 22 Indiana Southeast Grenadiers IN 42-14 3-0
16 25 Mid-America Christian Evangels OK 42-13 3-0
17 14 Milligan Buffaloes TN 41-15 1-2
18 15 Webber International Warriors FL 39-19 2-2
19 18 Loyola Wolf Pack LA 42-21 1-2
20 16 Texas Wesleyan Rams TX 45-13 1-2
21 19 Louisiana Christian Wildcats LA 37-15 2-2
22 17 Abraham Baldwin Stallions GA 40-17 1-2
23 20 Concordia Bulldogs NE 40-18 1-2
24 23 Keiser Seahawks FL 36-19 1-2
25 NR British Columbia Thunderbirds BC 40-17 2-2
DROP 24 A&M Victoria Jaguars TX 36-17 0-2


They scored 38 runs in three regional games and gave up only six. They broke a 48-year-old program record by hanging 18 on Maryville. Then, after falling behind late to Christopher Newport in the regional final, they exploded for seven runs in the seventh inning and won going away. Fourth consecutive NCAA regional championship. Fifteen appearances in the tournament's history. One national title, in 2023, and the unmistakable feeling that this program is built to get back to that stage.

"These things aren't easy," coach Travis Beazley said after the CNU win. "Box scores and scores like that might look like it's easy, but it's not. It was a really tough regional with some really quality coaches, teams and players." He is correct. The scorelines flatter nobody. What they reflect is a program that does not have bad days in May.

"Go play loose, play fast, play hard, but just relax and let the game come to us." — Coach Travis Beazley

THE NUMBERS THAT TELL THE STORY

Lynchburg hits .345 as a team. They get on base at a .477 clip. They score 516 runs in 46 games — more than 11 per game. They hold opponents to a .239 batting average and a 3.24 team ERA. After they were edged in extra innings by Bridgewater in the ODAC tournament, they clawed back from the brink of elimination three straight times to reach the championship. The taxed pitching staff ran out of steam as they lost to Shenadoah in the title game, but when it really mattered — the Hornets went undefeated with three lopsided wins in a regional field that included the AMCC champion, a tenacious Maryville squad, and Christopher Newport.

The player at the center of all of it is Jack Pokorak, the ODAC Player of the Year, who is hitting .387 with 16 home runs and 89 RBIs from first base. His brother Sean Pokorak hits .417 behind the plate — that is not a typo — with a .564 on-base percentage. Quinn Madden and Kyle Flora hit .389 and .381 respectively, and Flora was a freshman. In the regional games, the Pokorak brothers combined for 14 hits and 14 RBIs across three games. The offensive engine does not sputter.

THE WAY THEY WIN

What makes Lynchburg genuinely hard to game-plan against is that they do not beat you one way. Benton Jones leads off and has a .496 on-base percentage, drew 40 walks, and stole 14 bags. Brandon Garcia, a senior in his fourth year as a starter, hit .327 with 65 walks and 22 stolen bases. The team drew 333 walks this season. They hit 58 home runs. They stole 81 bases. This lineup will kill you with walks, beat you with the stolen base, put a ball in the gap, or hit it over the fence, and they cycle through all four approaches in a single inning without blinking.

The seventh inning of the regional final was the encapsulation of everything. Tied 4-4, trailing a team that had matched them run-for-run for five innings, the Hornets loaded the bases on a walk, a walk, and a walk. Then Madden hit a three-run double. Then a wild pitch. Then Flora tripled. Then Warren tripled off the bench. Seven runs. Game over. The Hornets do not make rallies happen by accident. They suffocate opposing pitchers with patience and then punish the mistake when it comes.

KALTREIDER AND A STAFF THAT FINISHES GAMES

Tyler Kaltreider was the preseason All-American and ODAC Pitcher of the Year, and he delivered: 9-1 with a 2.62 ERA in 79 innings, striking out 78 while walking just 21. He came to Lynchburg from Division I VMI, where he earned Southern Conference All-Freshman honors, and he has been the anchor of a staff that simply does not surrender leads.

But the rotation depth is what separates this staff from good to dangerous in a single-elimination postseason context. Logan Tapman went 9-0 with a 3.42 ERA and threw a complete game against Maryville in the regional — 123 pitches, one run allowed — a nine-inning performance that told you exactly what kind of staff Lynchburg has when the tournament starts. Nick Mattfield, the graduate student with nearly 250 career innings, is 6-0 at 3.50. And out of the bullpen, Trent Judd posted a 2.17 ERA in 45.2 innings while throwing four scoreless frames in the regional title game to slam the door on CNU.

THE PATH TO EASTLAKE

The Super Regional matchup is a best-of-three at home against East Texas Baptist. ETBU is 43-14 and won their regional on the strength of a big home run game, but Lynchburg has been here before. Four straight times. They know what a Super Regional feels like, and they know how to win one.

Beazley put it simply before the regional began: these guys have found a way to play their best baseball on the biggest stage. That is the entire case for Lynchburg. They are 39-6-1 and the six losses tell you almost nothing about how good they actually are. They got knocked around in the ODAC tournament, regrouped, and steamrolled everyone they needed to steamroll when the bracket was set. That is a championship-caliber team.
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