Baseball's Recruiting Class Ranked No. 5 in the Country by D1Baseball

OMAHA, Neb. – The University of South Carolina baseball team’s 2020 recruiting class has been selected as the fifth-best in the country by D1Baseball.com, the website announced this morning (Friday, Jan. 15).
 
South Carolina is one of nine schools from the Southeastern Conference in D1Baseball’s top-25 list while the conference has six of the top 10 classes. The 18-man recruiting class features six student-athletes (Alek Boychuk, Magdiel Cotto, Jackson Phipps, Will Sanders, Josh Shuler and Jalen Vasquez) that were in Baseball America’s Top 500 prospects for the 2020 MLB Draft and had Brandon Fields on the list before he declared that he was coming to school.

With today’s announcement from D1Baseball.com, the 2020 South Carolina recruiting class is a consensus top-10 class, as the Gamecocks have been ranked No. 4 by Perfect Game, No. 5 by D1Baseball.com, No. 6 by Baseball America and No. 8 by Collegiate Baseball.
 
2020 D1Baseball.com Recruiting Rankings
1. Miami (Fla.)
2. LSU
3. TCU
4. Arizona
5. South Carolina
6. Florida
7. Mississippi State
8. Texas
9. Georgia
10. Arkansas
11. Stanford
12. Vanderbilt
13. Florida State
14. Georgia Tech
15. Ole Miss
16. Clemson
17. Texas Tech
18. UCLA
19. Wake Forest
20. Oklahoma State
21. West Virginia
22. North Carolina
23. Washington
24. Oklahoma
25. Kentucky