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Yahoo
23-06-2025
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- Yahoo
Where Clemson finished in final 2025 USA TODAY Sports baseball coaches poll
The 2025 college baseball season ended Sunday afternoon with a familiar sight. An SEC team was crowned national champions for the sixth consecutive Men's College World Series. For the LSU Tigers, who defeated Coastal Carolina 5-3 at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha on Sunday, it was their second championship in three years and the school's eighth overall. Advertisement LSU finished the year 53-15 overall and were ranked No. 1 in the final USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll, released Monday. Coastal Carolina (56-13), which won 26 straight games entering the CWS Finals, finished No. 2. As for Clemson, their season ended three weeks earlier in the Clemson Regional of the NCAA Tournament with back-to-back losses to West Virginia and Kentucky. Erik Bakich's program finished 45-18 overall and were ranked No. 20 in Monday's Coaches Poll. Clemson ranked one spot ahead of No. 21 Duke (41-21) and one spot below No. 19 Southern Miss (47-16). For the second straight season, Clemson climbed to as high as No. 2 in the Coaches Poll during the regular season. But it was a familiar ending for the Tigers come tournament time, their season ending on the grass at Doug Kingsmore Stadium for the third straight year and the seventh time since 2011. Clemson finished No. 9 in the final coaches poll in 2024. The Tigers were ranked No. 11 in the preseason poll this year, released on Feb. 3. Advertisement Seven ACC teams placed in the final top 25, led by Louisville and coach Dan McDonnell at No. 6. The Cardinals' surprise run to Omaha included a win at the Nashville Regional against No. 1 overall seed Vanderbilt, and a Super Regional win over the Miami Hurricanes. North Carolina (46-15), which won the ACC Tournament over Clemson and entered the field of 64 ranked No. 1 in the Coaches Poll, finished No. 8. The Tar Heels fell at the Chapel Hill Super Regional to Arizona. Florida State (42-16) was ranked one spot below UNC at No. 8, giving the ACC three teams in the top 10. Two ACC teams back-ended the top 25 rankings. Miami (35-27) finished No. 24 with ACC regular season champion Georgia Tech (41-19) at No. 25. Full USA TODAY Sports Baseball Coaches Poll 2025 final rankings 1. LSU 53-15 2. Coastal Carolina 56-13 3. Arkansas 50-15 4. Oregon State 48-16 5. UCLA 48-18 6. Louisville 42-24 7. Arizona 44-21 8. North Carolina 46-15 9. Florida State 42-16 10. Tennessee 46-19 11. Murray State 44-17 12. Texas 44-14 13. Auburn 41-20 14. Vanderbilt 43-18 15. Georgia 43-17 16. Oregon 42-16 17. West Virginia 44-16 18. Ole Miss 43-21 19. Southern Miss 47-16 20. Clemson 45-18 21. Duke 41-21 22. UTSA 47-15 23. UC Irvine 43-17 24. Miami 35-27 25. Georgia Tech 41-19 Schools Dropped Out No. 18 Florida; No. 20 Alabama; No. 21 Northeastern; No. 22 Dallas Baptist; No. 23 Kansas; No. 25 TCU Advertisement Others Receiving Votes Florida 85; Alabama 73; Northeastern 55; Dallas Baptist 53; Oklahoma 28; Wake Forest 24; TCU 22; Kansas 18; Virginia 14; North Carolina State 14; East Carolina 14; Western Kentucky 12; Oklahoma State 12; Mississippi State 11; Creighton 11; USC 9; Austin Peay 4; Arizona State 4; East Tennessee State 3; Troy 2; Cincinnati 2; Little Rock 1 Contact us @Clemson_Wire on X, and like our page on Facebook for ongoing coverage of Clemson Tigers news and notes, plus opinions. This article originally appeared on Clemson Wire: Clemson baseball's ranking in final Coaches Poll Top 25 revealed
USA Today
14-06-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
CWS 2025: UCLA's Toussaint Bythewood is son of 'Love & Basketball' director
CWS 2025: UCLA's Toussaint Bythewood is son of 'Love & Basketball' director Show Caption Hide Caption Which NCAA baseball teams could blow up the bracket The Montgomery Advertiser's Adam Cole and The Southwest Times Record's Jackson Fuller break down who could wreck the tournament bracket. With two outs, a runner on second base and a 2-2 count, Toussaint Bythewood ripped an opposite-field single to right field, bringing his UCLA baseball teammate home and breaking a scoreless deadlock in the top of the fourth inning against UTSA on June 8. Ultimately, it was all the Bruins would need, with Bythewood's RBI standing as the game-winning hit as his team coasted to a 7-0 victory that finished off a sweep of the Los Angeles Super Regional against UTSA and sent UCLA to the College World Series for the first time in 12 years. By the end of June, a city defined by its stars could have a few more. REQUIRED READING: Diversity in College World Series field reminds us what college sports is all about The Bruins are just one of eight college baseball teams whose championship dreams remain alive. With a few victories at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Nebraska — beginning with a June 14 game against Murray State — they'll cap off an already stellar season with the second NCAA championship in program history. Even if they're unable to complete the job, they'll have reached a point they haven't since their current roster was in elementary school. The player who delivered the hit that sent them there is more than familiar with stardom. Bythewood's parents, Reggie Rock Bythewood and Gina Prince-Bythewood, are directing-and-producing partners, with a number of notable credits to their names. As a junior outfielder and valued contributor on a team that's set to compete on its sport's biggest stage, Bythewood is making a name for himself apart from his mother and father's achievements in the film industry. As UCLA's CWS journey begins Saturday, here's a closer look at Bythewood: REQUIRED READING: NCAA baseball tournament winners and losers: College World Series full of surprises Toussaint Bythewood parents Bythewood is the son of Gina Prince-Bythewood and Reggie Rock Bythewood, who first met on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel Air' and who went on to work together as writers on the 1990s sitcom 'A Different World' before later marrying. The two are veterans of the entertainment industry, with a slew of film and television credits as writers, directors, producers and actors. Prince-Bythewood, according to her IMDB profile, has 20 directorial credits, with a 21st currently in production. She's perhaps most famous for writing and directing the classic 2000 romantic sports drama 'Love & Basketball,' for which she won Independent Spirit and Black Reel awards. Interestingly enough, given where her son now plays baseball, the movie's two protagonists, played by Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan, played college basketball at rival USC. Prince-Bythewood has also directed 'The Woman King,' 'The Secret Life of Bees' and 'The Old Guard' — the first two of which she also wrote — along with episodes of 'Everybody Hates Chris,' 'The Bernie Mac Show' and 'Girlfriends.' In addition to her work behind the camera, she has 16 writing and 11 producing credits. Reggie Rock Bythewood, meanwhile, directed the 2000 film 'Dancing in September' and co-created, along with his wife, the television series 'Shots Fired.' Among Bythewood's 12 writing credits are 'Get on the Bus,' an independent 1996 Spike Lee film centered around the Million Man March, and 'Notorious,' the 2009 biopic about the Notorious B.I.G. Most recently, he created and wrote 'Swagger,' an Apple TV+ series inspired by Kevin Durant's experience playing on the AAU basketball circuit. Toussaint Bythewood, who is named after the military general and former slave who helped lead the Haitian Revolution, is one of two boys in the family, both of whom regularly visited the sets on which their parents were working growing up. 'We learned to bring our kids into the process,' Reggie Rock Bythewood said in a 2020 interview with Essence. 'Together we went through the process of why we feel at this time, we have to do this project, and put this out in the world, what it is we aspire to change. We really talked to them a lot about some of the lessons we've learned, and having a cause bigger than yourself. This is a family project and our kids understand why we're digging in so hard. I think that allowing them to be a part of our mission helped them and it helps us.' Those visits would sometimes involve being in front of the camera. While playing at the Harvard-Westlake School in Studio City, California in 2022, Bythewood told the Los Angeles Times that he has had small parts in his parents' films over their careers, though he doesn't have any acting credits to his name on IMDB. 'It's really cool when I get to see myself on the big screen,' he said. 'Pretty surreal.' He isn't the first UCLA athlete in his family, either. Prince-Bythewood was on the Bruins' track & field team while studying film at the school. Toussaint Bythewood stats This season, his third with the program, Bythewood is hitting .313 with five hits, five RBIs and one double while appearing in 21 games, which have included three starts.
