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GCU Club Baseball finishes season ranked 15th in final NCBA DI Poll

D2 National Champion Lopes finish atop NCBA D2 Final Poll

While seeing their season end three weeks earlier than hoped, the 2022 campaign ended with good news for the Grand Canyon University Club Baseball team, who finished with a No. 15 ranking in the final National Club Baseball Association (NCBA) Rawlings Division I Poll. The Lopes inched up two spots from their previous No. 17 ranking in mid-May, which means the Lopes were ranked among the NCBA Top 15 in nine of the 10 national polls in 2022.
 
An earlier-than-expected exit from the 2022 Southern Pacific Regional Tournament sealed the Lopes' fate that they wouldn't finish among the nation's eight best teams, but the Lopes apparently earned enough national respect throughout the campaign to be moved up in the final poll. After all, the Lopes were ranked 7th or better for eight consecutive weeks during the regular season, won their third straight SoPac South Conference title in late April, and were inevitably aided by the fact that eventual SoPac Regional Champion Cal Poly reached the NCBA World Series Championship Game before losing to national champion Florida State University. The Lopes' D1 team finished the 2022 campaign with a 21-10 overall record.
 
The entire Lopes' Club Baseball program continues to celebrate the accomplishments of its D2 team, who went all the way from unranked midway through the regular season to their first-ever national championship, winning 16 of their final 17 games – including all four of their NCBA D2 World Series games in Butler, Pennsylvania. As a result, the D2 Lopes finished on top of the NCBA D2 Final Poll – also for the first time ever.
 
Both the D1 and D2 NCBA Final Polls are listed below:
 
NCBA D1 Final Poll
Rank Team Total Pts Prev Rank
1 Florida State 400 2
2 Cal Poly 380 5
3 Penn State 357 1
4 Utah State 343 3
5 Michigan 312 6
6 LSU 285 9
7 East Carolina 272 4
8 Nebraska 261 7
9 Virginia Tech 213 8
10 Delaware 200 10
11 Auburn 181 13
12 Oregon 155 14
T-13 Texas A&M 122 12
T-13 Connecticut 122 18
15 Grand Canyon 119 17
16 UCLA 103 11
17 Notre Dame 94 16
18 Colorado 88 15
19 Oregon State 68 20
20 James Madison 30 19
 
NCBA D2 Final Poll
Rank Team Total Pts Prev Rank
1 Grand Canyon 300 T-2
2 Penn State 285 6
3 California University (PA) 267 1
4 North Dakota 261 T-2
5 Missouri S&T 234 7
6 High Point (NC) 227 4
7 Fordham (NY) 195 9
8 Washington 187 13
9 Ohio State 183 5
10 Stanford (CA) 156 10
11 Georgia College 131 8
12 Creighton (NE) 122 14
13 Eastern Michigan 110 12
14 Wisconsin 93 13
15 Salisbury (MD) 76 17
16 Temple (PA) 74 16
17 Maryland 72 18
18 Cal-Miramar (Los Angeles) 63 15
19 Craven Comm. College (NC) 29 NR
20 Metro State (CO) 28 20
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