UCLA baseball team gets No. 3 preseason ranking

UCLA, which made it to the Collegiate World Series last season, has been ranked No. 3 in Collegiate Baseball's preseason top 40.

UCLA won a school-record 51 games last season before losing to South Carolina in the best-of-three championship series.

Also ranked from the Pacific 10 Conference are Oregon (No. 9), Stanford (No. 10), Arizona State (No. 11), Arizona (No. 22), Washington State (No. 31) and California (No. 33).

-- Eric Sondheimer