SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE LSU THROUGH THE YEARS SEC Highlights . 2-3 Schedule . .67 All-Time Champions/Records..........110-111 Inclement Weather Policy...................4 Quick Facts .............................68 All-Time SEC Standings..............112-119 2015 Schedule Grid........................5 Head Coach Paul Mainieri/ All-Time .400 Hitters ....................120 Standard of Excellence ...................6-8 Assistant Coaches .....................68 Year-By-Year Category Leaders . 121-127 SEC All-Time National Championships .......9 2015 Roster . .69 NCAA Statistical Champions ..........127-128 SECU Academic Initiative .................10 2014 Results/Statistics . 70 SEC Headquarters .......................11 SEC RECORDS SEC Milestones .......................12-13 OLE MISS SEC Records .......................130-139 SEC Commissioner Mike Slive..............14 Schedule . .71 SEC Notes .............................140 SEC Staff ...............................15 Quick Facts .............................72 SEC Official Sponsor Program..............16 Head Coach Mike Bianco/ HONORS Assistant Coaches .....................72 SEC Media Services ......................17 National Players of the Year...........142-143 2015 Roster . .73 SEC Television Agreements ................18 All-Americans ......................144-145 2014 Results/Statistics . 74 2015 SEC Baseball TV Schedule ............19 SEC Awards........................146-147 SEC Weekly Honors .................148-151 2015 SEC Tournament ....................20 MISSISSIPPI STATE 2015 SEC Tournament Bracket .............21 All-SEC Teams .....................152-162 Schedule . .75 SEC Tournament History..................22 All-Freshman Teams.................162-163 Quick Facts .............................76 All-Defensive Teams .....................163 SEC All-Tournament Teams ............23-25 Head Coach John Cohen/ SEC Academic Honor Roll ............164-173 SEC Tournament Results...............26-37 Assistant Coaches .....................76 SEC In Major League Baseball.........174-175 SEC Tournament Records ..............38-41 2015 Roster . .77 SEC Coaching Records ...................176 SEC Communications Contacts .............42 2014 Results/Statistics . 78 TOURNAMENTS ALABAMA MISSOURI SEC in the College World Series ...........178 Schedule . .43 Schedule . .79 NCAA Tournament Results ...........179-188 Quick Facts .............................44 Quick Facts .............................80 Head Coach Mitch Gaspard/ Head Coach Tim Jamieson/ POLLS Assistant Coaches .....................44 Assistant Coaches .....................80 Collegiate Baseball ..................190-196 2015 Roster . .45 2015 Roster . .81 USA Today/ESPN Coaches............197-199 2014 Results/Statistics . 46 2014 Results/Statistics . 82 SEC Baseball Attendance .................200 ARKANSAS SOUTH CAROLINA Composite Schedule .................IFC/IBC Schedule . .47 Schedule . .83 Quick Facts .............................48 Quick Facts .............................84 Head Coach Dave Van Horn/ Head Coach Chad Holbrook/ Assistant Coaches .....................48 Assistant Coaches .....................84 2015 Roster . .49 2015 Roster . .85 2014 Results/Statistics . 50 2014 Results/Statistics . 86 AUBURN TENNESSEE Schedule . .51 Schedule . .87 Quick Facts .............................52 Quick Facts .............................88 Head Coach Sunny Golloway/ Head Coach Dave Serrano/ Assistant Coaches .....................52 Assistant Coaches .....................88 2015 Roster . .53 2015 Roster . .89 2014 Results/Statistics . 54 2014 Results/Statistics . 90 FLORIDA TEXAS A&M Schedule . .55 Schedule . .91 Quick Facts .............................56 Quick Facts .............................92 CREDITS Head Coach Kevin O’Sullivan/ Head Coach Rob Childress/ The 2015 SEC Baseball Guide, Volume XLVI, is pub- Assistant Coaches .....................92 Assistant Coaches .....................56 lished by the Southeastern Conference Office, Michael 2015 Roster . .93 2015 Roster . .57 Slive, Commissioner. 2014 Results/Statistics . 94 2014 Results/Statistics . 58 Editor VANDERBILT Sean Cartell, Assistant Director of Communications GEORGIA Schedule . .95 Schedule . .59 Special Assistance Quick Facts .............................96 Quick Facts .............................60 Chuck Dunlap (SEC Director of Communications); Head Coach Tim Corbin/ Courtney Fritts (SEC Digital Media/Communications Head Coach Scott Stricklin/ Assistant Coaches .....................96 Assistant Coaches .....................60 Assistant); Alex Thompson (UA); David Beall (AR); 2015 Roster . .97 Taylor Bryan (AU); John Hines (UF); Christopher Lakos 2015 Roster . .61 2014 Results/Statistics . 98 (UG); Brent Ingram (UK); Bill Franques (LS); Hannah 2014 Results/Statistics . 62 Whitten (UM); Kyle Niblett (MS); Andrew Kitick (SC); 2014 IN REVIEW Shawn Davis (MU); M.J. Burns (UT); Thomas Dick KENTUCKY 2014 Year In Review .....................100 (AM); Kyle Parkinson (VU). Schedule . .63 Team-By-Team Statistics Summary Typsetting/Printing Quick Facts .............................64 (All Games) .........................101 EBSCO Media (Birmingham, Ala.) Head Coach Gary Henderson/ Team-By-Team Statistics Summary Assistant Coaches .....................64 (SEC Games) ........................102 Cover Design 2015 Roster . .65 Team-By-Team Notes ................103-106 BC Romano (SEC) 2014 Results/Statistics . 66 2014 Awards .......................107-108 SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE • SEC • SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE • SEC 1 SEC HIGHLIGHTS he Southeastern Conference, with its storied 81-year NOTES history of athletic achievements and academic excellence, Thas built perhaps the greatest tradition of intercollegiate • The SEC has sent 50 teams to the College World Series since competition in baseball of any league in the country since its 1990. That was accomplished despite no SEC teams making inception in 1933. the field in 1992. LSU has been to Omaha 13 times, Florida The SEC posted another tremendous season in 2014 as the eight times, South Carolina six times, Georgia and Mississippi conference had a NCAA-record 10 teams receive bids for NCAA State five times, while Alabama, Arkansas and Tennessee have postseason play, with Vanderbilt and Ole Miss advancing to the been three times each. Auburn and Vanderbilt have been twice. College World Series. A SEC squad has now appeared in the • SEC teams have won 10 of the last 25 national championships, College World Series 29 of the last 30 years. Vanderbilt won the with LSU winning six (1991, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2009), national championship, marking the 10th time since 2000 a SEC South Carolina winning two (2010, 2011), Vanderbilt taking team played for the national championship in Omaha and seventh home the title in 2014 and Georgia claiming the 1990 title. The in a row. LSU won the SEC tournament title 2-0 over Florida on SEC has finished runner up seven times in that span, 1997, national television in front of over 10,000 fans. Florida won the 2002, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2012 and 2013. SEC regular-season title with a 21-9 conference record, while Ole Miss won the Western Division with a 19-11 record. • SEC teams are 105-89 since 1990 in Omaha, a 54.1 winning The Southeastern Conference boasts 13 former National percentage. Not counting games against each other, the SEC Players of the Year (Kentucky’s AJ Reed won in 2014), 12 Baseball has posted an 80-64 record in the College World Series since America Coach of the Year and 11 Collegiate Baseball Coach of the 1990, a 55.6 winning percentage. Year honors. Also, 166 student-athletes have been named first- • The SEC has played 49 games in the “Final Four” of the College team All-American, five of which came in 2014. World Series since 1990, an average of over 1.5 per year. Only Two SEC players were taken in the first round of the 2014 five times, 1992, 1994, 2003, 2006 and 2007 has the SEC failed Major League Baseball Amateur Draft, held in June in New to get a team to the “Final Four” of the CWS. York City. LSU’s Aaron Nola was selected seventh overall by the • The SEC has averaged over eight games played per year in the th Philadelphia Phillies. Vanderbilt’s Tyler Beede was chosen 14 by College World Series since 1990. In 2004, 12 of the 15 games the San Francisco Giants. With those two selections this year, the played in Omaha involved a SEC team. In 1997, the SEC had SEC has now had a first round selection in each year since 1991 a team in 13 of the 14 games played in the CWS. Since 1990, and 98 total in the first round during that time. an SEC team has played in 169 of the 360 games in the College The SEC drew a record of more than 2.3 million fans to its on- World Series, an amazing 47 percent of games. SEC teams campus ballparks in 2014, the eighth year in a row to draw more played in 11 of the 16 in 2014. than 1.6 million. Ten SEC teams drew in excess of 100,000 fans to their parks in 2014. The SEC averaged nearly 5,000 fans per • The SEC has sent 11 of its 14 schools to the College World game in 2014, the eighth straight year to exceed the 4,000 mark. Series since 1990 - Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, The SEC Baseball Tournament drew more than 120,000 Georgia, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, South Carolina, fans in 2014, better than 7,000 per game. The event has become Tennessee and Vanderbilt. Texas A&M also advanced three the Birmingham metro’s highest attended sporting event times since 1990 prior to joining SEC. annually, second in the state only to