TUCSON, Ariz. — After winning three of four games this past week, the Clemson baseball team moved up one spot from No. 20 to No. 19 in the latest Collegiate Baseball rankings, which was released on Monday.

The Tigers (11-3, 2-1 ACC) rallied for wins on Saturday and Sunday to take claim the series against Wake Forest in the conference opener for both schools. Clemson will play a two-game series against The Citadel in Charleston starting on Tuesday at 7 p.m. Game 2 will be at 6 p.m. on Wednesday.

Clemson will host Boston College in a three-game series this weekend at Doug Kingsmore Stadium in Clemson.

The University of Florida (17-1) is ranked No.1 for the fifth straight Collegiate Baseball NCAA Division I baseball poll presented by Big League Chew bubble gum.

The Gators, winners of 11 in a row, beat North Florida twice and then swept a 3-game series from Harvard last week. Florida’s pitching staff has been superb with a 2.52 ERA, 190 strikeouts and just 43 walks (No. 3 in the USA with a 4.46 strikeout to walk ratio) over 18 games. The Gator defense has only committed 11 errors in 18 games (.984 fielding percentage).

POLL NOTES: Several teams have impressive winning streaks. Besides Florida’s 11-game winning streak, Texas A&M and Mississippi have won 10 in a row, Louisville and Arizona St. 8 consecutive and Vanderbilt 7 in a row.

In key series over the past weekend, Mississippi St. swept a 3-game series at home against Oregon, Florida St. swept three at home against Georgia Tech., Texas Christian won two of three at home against Southern California, Boston College took two of three at N.C. State, UCLA won two of three at home against Texas, Alabama lost two of three at home against Houston and East Carolina lost two of three at Rice.

Two teams fell out of the top 30 this week in Alabama (1-2 last week) and East Carolina (3-2). Two teams that entered the poll include Boston College (12-3, 2-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) after winning two of three at N.C. State and Arizona State (13-3, winners of 8 straight).

The Collegiate Baseball newspaper poll is the oldest college baseball poll. Its birth took place during the 1959 college baseball season.

Collegiate Baseball NCAA Div. I Poll
(As of March 14, 2016)