Despite what can only be described as a very messy offseason, the Oregon softball team received enough love from coaches around the country to make the cut in the NFCA Division 1 Coaches Poll, released Tuesday morning.

The Ducks received the No. 25 ranking in the poll, acting as the fifth Pac-12 team inside the Top 25. UCLA (2), Washington (3), Arizona (7) and Arizona State (12) were each ranked as well. This comes after the Ducks were ranked sixth at the conclusion of the 2018 season.

All of this is also perhaps a little surprising given the program's devastating offseason which has seen nine players transfer and reportedly a 10th held out due to transfer ruling. If Terra McGown is ruled ineligible all season, as is her current standing, then the Ducks would have just 12 available players.

The Ducks have lost nearly all of its experience from 2018 to graduation and transfer. Of the remaining 12 players, five are returning players, but only one has regularly started games, while five more are true freshman and the remaining two are pitching transfers.

Oregon's transfer list now includes All-American pitchers Megan Kleist and Miranda Elish, all-conference pitcher Maggie Balint, along with all-conference batters Shannon Rhodes, Alexis Mack and Mary Iakopo. The team also lost freshman Alyssa Pinto to transfer, sophomore Lauren Burke and junior Mia Camuso to transfer too.

We'll get a good gauge of whether or not that ranking will stick early on. The team opens its season on Feb. 8 at the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe. They'll then play in three other preseason tournaments before opening the season with a series against Oklahoma State on March 8 at Jane Sanders Stadium. The Ducks will play their first 20 games away from home.

Oregon won the Pac-12 for the fifth time in six seasons last year and entered postseason play as the nation's No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament.