Week One SEC Notes

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February 17, 2011 • Preseason

2011 SEC Baseball

Upcoming ScheduleFebruary18 (Friday)

Alcorn State at Alabama 6 p.m. CT

Delaware State at Arkansas 3 p.m. CT

Arkansas State at Auburn 6 p.m. CT

USF at Florida [SUN] 7 p.m. ET

Georgia at Stetson 6:30 p.m. ET

Kentucky at College of Charleston 5 p.m. ET

Wake Forest at LSU 7 p.m. CT

Wright State at Ole Miss 3 p.m. CT

Akron at Mississippi State 4 p.m. CT

Santa Clara at South Carolina 3 p.m. ET

Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Tennessee 4 p.m. ET

Vanderbilt at San Diego 4 p.m. CT

19 (Saturday)



Virginia at Auburn 1 p.m. CT

USF at Florida 4 p.m. ET

Georgia at Stetson 2 p.m. ET

Kentucky vs. Marshall 5 p.m. ET

- (Charleston, S.C.)

Wake Forest at LSU 2 p.m. CT

Wright State at Ole Miss 1:30 p.m. CT

Lamar at Mississippi State 11:30 a.m. CT

Akron at Mississippi State 3:30 p.m. CT

Santa Clara at South Carolina 3 p.m. ET


Vanderbilt vs. San Diego 5 p.m. CT

Vanderbilt at San Diego State 9 p.m.CT

20 (Sunday)



UAB at Auburn 3 p.m. CT

USF at Florida 1 p.m. ET

Georgia at Stetson 1 p.m. ET

Kentucky vs. Miami, OH 11 a.m. ET

- (Charleston, S.C.)

Wake Forest at LSU Noon CT

Wright State at Ole Miss 1:30 p.m. CT

Lamar at Mississippi State 2:30 P.M. CT

Santa Clara at South Carolina 1:30 p.m. ET


Vanderbilt at San Diego 3 p.m. CT

All Times Local to Game Site Unless Noted

FSN - Fox Sports South, Sun Sports, Fox Sports

Southwest, Fox Sports Houston

SPSO - SportSouth, Sun Sports, Fox Sports

Southwest, Fox Sports Houston

CSS - Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast

SUN - Sun Sports

CST - Cox Sports Television

BBSN - Big Blue Sports Network (via FS South)

JUM - Jumbo Sports Network

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WESTERN DIVISIONSEC Pct. GB All Pct. Home Away Neutral vs. Div. vs. Top 25 Last 10 Streak

Alabama 0-0 .000 -- 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 --Arkansas 0-0 .000 -- 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 --Auburn 0-0 .000 -- 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 --LSU 0-0 .000 -- 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 --Ole Miss 0-0 .000 -- 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 --Mississippi State 0-0 .000 -- 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 --

EASTERN DIVISIONSEC Pct. GB All Pct. Home Away Neutral vs. Div. vs. Top 25 Last 10 Streak

Florida 0-0 .000 -- 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 --Georgia 0-0 .000 -- 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 --Kentucky 0-0 .000 -- 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 --South Carolina 0-0 .000 -- 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 --Tennessee 0-0 .000 -- 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 --Vanderbilt 0-0 .000 -- 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 --

Date Game Network TimeMarch 15 Alabama at Auburn CSS 8:00 p.m.March 18 Florida at LSU CSS 7:00 p.m.March 19 Alabama at Ole Miss SPSO 3:00 p.m.March 27 Vanderbilt at Arkansas CST 2:00 p.m.April 1 Tennessee at Florida CSS 7:00 p.m.April 2 Tennessee at Florida CSS 1:00 p.m.

Vanderbilt at Auburn CSS 7:00 p.m.April 3 Arkansas at Alabama CSS 2:00 p.m.April 7 South Carolina at Tennessee ESPNU 7:30 p.m.April 8 Alabama at Vanderbilt CSS 7:00 p.m.April 9 Florida at Mississippi State CSS 1:00 p.m.

Georgia at Ole Miss SPSO 3:00 p.m. LSU at Arkansas ESPNU 8:00 p.m.

April 10 Auburn at Kentucky CSS 1:00 p.m.April 14 Tennessee at Alabama ESPNU 7:30 p.m.April 15 Florida at Georgia CSS 7:00 p.m.

Mississippi State at Arkansas SPSO 8:00 p.m.April 16 Florida at Georgia ESPNU 5:00 p.m.

Vanderbilt at South Carolina CSS 7:00 p.m.April 17 Vanderbilt at S. Carolina ESPN2 1:00 p.m.

Florida at Georgia CSS 2:00 p.m.April 19 Ole Miss vs. Miss. State CSS 7:30 p.m.

(Trustmark Park; Pearl, Miss.)April 21 Ole Miss at Auburn ESPNU 7:30 p.m.April 22 S. Carolina at Miss. State ESPNU 8:00 p.m.April 23 Ole Miss at Auburn CSS 1:00 p.m.

LSU at Vanderbilt SPSO 3:30 p.m. Alabama at Florida ESPN2 6:00 p.m.Arkansas at Kentucky FSN 7:00 p.m.

April 24 LSU at Vanderbilt ESPN2 3:00 p.m.April 28 Kentucky at LSU ESPNU 7:30 p.m.April 29 Auburn at South Carolina SPSO 7:00 p.m.April 30 Arkansas at Georgia ESPN2 1:00 p.m.

Tennessee at Vanderbilt CSS 1:00 p.m.Alabama at Mississippi State SPSO 3:00 p.m.Auburn at South Carolina SPSO 7:00 p.m.

May 1 Arkansas at Georgia CST 2:00 p.m.Auburn at South Carolina ESPN 3:00 p.m.

May 5 Florida at Arkansas ESPNU 7:30 p.m.May 7 South Carolina at Ole Miss SPSO 3:00 p.m.

LSU at Alabama CSS 7:30 p.m.Florida at Arkansas ESPNU 8:00 p.m.

May 12 Mississippi State at Ole Miss ESPNU 7:30 p.m.May 13 Florida at Vanderbilt CSS 7:00 p.m.

SEC Wildcard ESPNU 8:00 p.m.Mississippi State at Ole Miss SPSO 8:00 p.m.

May 14 Alabama at Auburn CSS 1:00 p.m.Tennessee at LSU CSS 4:00 p.m.Mississippi State at Ole Miss SPSO 8:00 p.m.

May 19 LSU at Mississippi State CSS 7:00 p.m.Vanderbilt at Georgia ESPNU 7:30 p.m.

May 20 SEC Wildcard CSS 7:00 p.m.May 21 SEC Wildcard CSS 7:00 p.m.

Kentucky at Florida SPSO 3:00 p.m.

May 25 SEC Tournament - Game 1 CSS 10:30 a.m. May 25 SEC Tournament - Game 2 CSS TBD May 25 SEC Tournament - Game 3 CSS 5:30 p.m. May 25 SEC Tournament - Game 4 CSS TBD May 26 SEC Tournament - Game 5 SPSO 10:30 a.m. May 26 SEC Tournament - Game 6 SPSO TBD May 26 SEC Tournament - Game 7 SPSO 5:30 p.m. May 26 SEC Tournament - Game 8 SPSO TBDMay 27 SEC Tournament - Game 9 CSS 4:00 p.m. May 27 SEC Tournament - Game 10 CSS TBD May 28 SEC Tournament - Game 11 SPSO 10:30 a.m. May 28 SEC Tournament - Game 12 SPSO TBDMay 28 SEC Tournament - Game 13 CSS 6:00 p.m.May 28 SEC Tournament - Game 14 CSS TBD May 29 SEC Tournament Final ESPN2 2:00 p.m.

- Championship Game (Hoover, AL)

All Times Eastern

FSN - Includes FOX Sports South, Sun Sports, FOX Sports Southwestand FOX Sports Houston

SPSO - Includes SportSouth, Sun Sports, FOX Sports Southwest, FOXSports Houston and FOX Sports South in Kentucky

CSS - Includes Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast, CST (Louisiana,Arkansas, Florida), Brighthouse Sports Network (Florida), TimeWarner Cable (Carolinas), Insight Cable (Kentucky)

CST - Includes Cox Sports Television (Louisiana, Arkansas, Florida),CSS, Brighthouse Sports Network (Florida), Time Warner Cable(Carolinas), Insight Cable (Kentucky)

Wildcard games to be selected in the weeks prior to event.

Regular season games on ESPN, ESPN2 & ESPNU, as well as allgames from the SEC Tournament, available in high definition.

Most games will be streamed live on ESPN3

OFFICIAL 2011 SEC BASEBALL TELEVISION SCHEDULE

Preseason

Player and Pitcher of the WeekThe SEC will name a player and a pitcher of the week each Monday begin-

ning February 21. The award will be released for Monday afternoon publi-cation and announced in the weekly SEC baseball release.

Nominations for the awards are made each week by the baseball sportsinformation contacts at each SEC institution. The award winners are chosenby a vote of the SEC Media Relations staff.

SEC Baseball on TwitterFollow @SEC_Chuck for the latest happenings on baseball in the SEC,

including complete SEC and NCAA Tournament coverage.

Pre-Tournament Teleconference The SEC will conduct a pre-tournament teleconference Monday, May 23

featuring the eight participating head coaches. Each coach will answer ques-tions from the media for ten minutes following a brief introduction. For fur-ther information on this teleconference, please consult the weekly SECrelease or contact the SEC Media Relations Department.

www.SECsports.comThe Southeastern Conference has established a dynamic presence on the

internet with it official site on the world wide web -- www. secsports.comand the new SEC Digital Network.

SEC Baseball information is updated daily. The site will contain standings,schedules, results, and notes on the SEC and each team. SEC baseball infor-mation is also available via email. Contact the SEC Media Relations office fordetails or register at www.secsportsmedia.com.

SEC Media Information/Photo GalleryAll information is now available directly from the SEC’s media web site,

www.secsportsmedia.com. All the lastest stats, notes, releases, etc. are availableas soon as released from the conference office. Through the services of SportsSystems, the SEC has a digital image platform that gives you access to the SEC’slatest photographs, images and logos. To access the platform, go to www.sec-portsmedia.com and click on the icon. SEC Information is available 24 hoursa day, seven days a week on the SEC media website.

Documents are automatically posted on the media web site as soon as theyare updated by the conference.

The SEC baseball release will be available each Tuesday (February 24through June) on the league’s media site and regular website, www.sec-sports.com.

Standings and results will be updated each weekday throughout the sea-son on the regular website, while statistics will be updated each Mondayand Thursday throughout conference play (beginning mid-March).

The Florida Gators are predicted to repeat as the 2011

Southeastern Conference baseball champions, as voted by the

league’s 12 baseball coaches in the 20th annual preseason SEC poll.

The Gators, ranked No. 1 nationally in multiple preseason polls,

seek to capture their 12th SEC Championship. UF returns eight posi-

tion starters and 11 pitchers from their 2010 squad which claimed

the SEC Championship and advanced to the NCAA College World

Series.

Since 1996, the SEC has named a regular season champion as

well as a tournament champion. Prior to 1996, the tournament

champion was considered the SEC Champion.

In addition to picking a preseason SEC champion, the league’s

head coaches voted a predicted order of finish in the SEC Eastern

and Western Divisions. In the Western Division, LSU was the

favorite with 63 of a possible 66 points. Arkansas came in second

with 49 points and Auburn third with 46. Florida was the favorite

in the Eastern Division with a total of 66 points. Vanderbilt was sec-

ond with 55, while South Carolina, last season’s NCAA National

Champion, finished third with 48.

Points were compiled on a 6-5-4-3-2-1 basis for each division.

Coaches were not allowed to vote for their own team. Each coach

also voted for one team as an overall conference champion.

The 2011 SEC regular season begins Friday, February 18, with

conference play set to begin Friday, March 18. The SEC Tournament

will be played at Regions Park in Hoover, Ala., May 25-29. The SEC

Tournament has drawn over 100,000 fans six of the last nine years,

including a record 126,000 in 2010. An NCAA-record of nearly two

million fans attended games in the SEC last season, the ninth year in

a row the SEC has topped the one million mark in attendance, lead-

ing the nation once again in that category.

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2011 SEC Baseball

The Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament returns for a 14th straight year to Regions Park in the south-Birmingham city of Hoover, Ala., May 25-29.

The SEC Tournament will continue to follow an eight-team double elimination format that is modeled after the CollegeWorld Series. The tournament field includes the top teams from the SEC’s Eastern and Western Divisions plus six at-largebids based on conference winning percentage.

The eight teams are seeded 1-8 with the two divisional champions guaranteed of the top two seeds. Last season, LSUdefeated Alabama 4-3 in 11 innings in front of a national television audience on ESPN2 to claim their third straight SECTournament.

Regions Park serves as home of the Double-A Birmingham Barons (Chicago White Sox) of the Southern League. Thestadium also serves as a home field to the nationally renowned Hoover Buccaneer high school football program.

Located eight miles south of Birmingham, Regions Park is regarded by many sports experts as one of the best of its kind in the nation. It seats 10,800 forbaseball, but can accommodate over 16,000 when the patio, banquet and side grassy areas are used. The stadium also houses 12 suites and state-of-the-artdressing and training rooms. Wireless internet access was added in 2004, concourse and signage renovation was done in 2005 and a second-level pressboxexpansion, new stadium seating and an exterior facelift in 2007 completed a $4.5 million renovation project. A new HD video scoreboard was added in 2008,while the SEC introduced the nation to a ‘pitch clock’ in 2010.

The 2010 SEC Baseball Tournament, held in Hoover, Ala. drew over 126,000 fans and nearly 10,000 per game, both record-highs for the event. Five timestime in the last eight years the tournament has surpassed the six-digit mark in total attendance. The 2008 event drew over 124,000 fans.

The SEC will keep its baseball tournament in Hoover through 2011 under the current contract. The host site of the event beyond 2011 has not yet beendecided.

All games of the tournament have been televised in high definition since 2008, with ESPN2 set to broadcast the championship game nationally for the sec-ond straight year in 2011.

2011 SEC Tournament BracketWednesday, May 25

Game 1 9:30 a.m. #7 Seed vs. #2 Seed [CSS]

Game 2 TBD #6 Seed vs. #3 Seed [CSS]

Game 3 4:30 p.m. #8 Seed vs. #1 Seed [CSS]

Game 4 TBD #5 Seed vs. #4 Seed [CSS]

Thursday, May 26

Game 5 9:30 a.m. Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2 [SPSO]

Game 6 TBD Loser Game 3 vs. Loser Game 4 [SPSO]

Game 7 4:30 p.m. Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2 [SPSO]

Game 8 TBD Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 4 [SPSO]

Friday, May 27

Game 9 3:00 p.m. Winner Game 5 vs. Loser Game 7 [CSS]

Game 10 TBD Winner Game 6 vs. Loser Game 8 [CSS]

Saturday, May 28

Game 11 9:30 a.m. Winner Game 8 vs. Winner Game 9 [SPSO]

Game 12 TBD Winner Game 7 vs. Winner Game 10 [SPSO]

Game 13* 5 p.m. Winner Game 11 vs. Loser Game 11 [CSS]

Game 14* TBD Winner Game 12 vs. Loser Game 12 [CSS]

Sunday, May 29

Game 15* 1:00 p.m. Winner Game 13 vs. Winner Game 14 [ESPN2]

* - If both bracket winners are undefeated, there will be no games 13 or 14 on Saturday

and the championship game Sunday would be Game 13.

All Times are Central

[ESPN2] - ESPN2

[SPSO] – Includes SportSouth, Sun Sports, FOX Sports Southwest, FOX Sports Houston and FOX Sports South in Kentucky

[CSS] – Includes Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast, CST (Louisiana, Arkansas, Florida), Brighthouse Sports Network (Florida), Time Warner Cable

(Carolinas), Insight Cable (Kentucky)

All games will be streamed live on ESPN3.com and broadcast in high definition

The second and fourth games each day will begin 30 minutes following the previous game.

2011 SEC TOURNAMENTMay 25-29 • Regions Park • Hoover, Ala.

Preseason2011 SEC Baseball

ALABAMA Crimson TideWith all the talk of the players that left the program following the2010 season, it should not go unnoticed that the Tide returns half ofits starting position players and a good portion of its starting pitchingrotation from last season. Taylor Dugas is one of three returningstarters in the outfield, joining fellow starters Jon Kelton (LF) and Andrew Miller(RF). Dugas led the Tide with a .395 average, while leading the SEC with a .525on-base percentage last season. Kelton finished his junior season with a .281 aver-age, while starting 58 of 67 games. Miller was selected to the SEC All-FreshmanTeam after hitting .268 during conference play. UA returns Brock Bennett, whoplayed more innings (341.1) behind the plate than any other Tide player last sea-son. Bennett started 44 games, hit .279 for the season, and was a 2010 SEC All-Tournament selection. On the mound, Alabama returns starters Adam Morgan,Taylor Wolfe, and Tucker Hawley, as well as bullpen ace and spot starter NathanKilcrease. Morgan started 18 games and had a 7-5 record with a pair of completegames as a sophomore. Wolfe made 14 appearances, including nine starts, for a3-2 record. Hawley was 2-1 in 16 outings, five as a starter, and set an Alabamarecord with just four walks as a freshman. Kilcrease was dominant as a junior, post-ing an 8-3 record with a 2.85 ERA. He was named the Atlanta Regional MostValuable Player, after throwing 13 innings for a 2-0 record. Alabama posted a 23-7 record at Sewell-Thomas Stadium, “The Joe”, in 2011 and won four of its fiveSEC series. The Crimson Tide was 10-5 in SEC home games with series wins overNo. 16 Vanderbilt, Auburn, Mississippi State and No. 14 Mississippi. Alabamawent 13-2 in non-conference home games. In 30 home games, Alabama hit .311(310-for-997) with 27 home runs and 195 RBI and outscored the opposition 220-145 last season. Since 1948, the Tide has a 1,108- 467 (.702) all-time record at thecurrently location for Sewell-Thomas Stadium.

ARKANSAS RazorbacksThe Arkansas Razorback baseball team opens the 2011 seasonthis weekend as it hosts Delaware State. Game times are set for3:05 p.m. on Friday and 1:05 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. The Razorbacks,ranked 24th in a pair of preseason polls, finished the 2010 season with a 43-21record and advanced to the Super Regional round of the NCAA Tournament forthe second straight season, marking the first back-to-back trips to the SuperRegionals in program history. Arkansas, which was picked to finish second in theSoutheastern Conference’s Western Division, returns 13 letterwinners and fourstarters from last year’s squad. Offensively, redshirt junior outfielder Collin Kuhnreturns to lead the Razorbacks. Kuhn led Arkansas in doubles (18), triples (4),stolen bases (17) and at-bats (259) in 2010 and was second in batting average(.336), home runs (16), hits (87) and runs scored (66). Junior Bo Bigham alsoreturns at second base for Arkansas. Bigham hit .316 with three homers and 30 RBIlast year. Preseason All-American James McCann is back behind the plate.Considered one of the best defensive catchers in college baseball, McCann com-mitted just three errors in 2010. At the plate, the junior catcher hit .286 with ninehomers and 34 RBI. On the mound, the Razorbacks are scheduled to start sopho-more RHP DJ Baxendale on Friday, junior LHP Geoffrey Davenport on Saturdayand freshman RHP Brandon Moore on Sunday.

AUBURN TigersDefending SEC West Champion Auburn opens the 2011 season onFriday, Feb. 18 at 6pm when it plays host to Arkansas State of theSun Belt Conference at Plainsman Park as part of the 2011 Auburn Tournament ...Also in the tournament are Virginia from the ACC and UAB of Conference USA ...Auburn is opening its 63rd season of modern baseball (1949) and its 116th over-all (1895) ... Auburn is 46-16 in season-opening games since 1949 ... So. RHPSlade Smith has been tabbed the Opening Day starter after going 4-0 with a 4.65ERA as a freshman last season ... In 60 innings of work in 2010 (18 appearances),he allowed 73 hits, 38 runs (31 earned), walked 14 and struck out 42 ... In sixstarts, he was 1-0 with a 7.08 ERA in 20 1/3 innings ... Auburn returns 12 positionplayers from the 2010 team that established school records and led the nation inhome runs (131) and slugging percentage (.591) while also establishing schoolrecords for team batting average (.348) and extra-base hits (293) ... Of the 131home runs, Auburn returns players that combined to hit 62 of them, led by Sr.1B/OF Kevin Patterson (16) and Sr. C/OF Tony Caldwell (10) ... Auburn returnsseven letter winners to its pitching staff in 2011, three of which are seniors, threeof which are juniors and one sophomore in Friday night starter Slade Smith ... Theseven returnees combined for a 5.32 ERA in 269 innings ... That number does notinclude Sr. RHP Justin Bryant, who made just one appearance on the mound lastyear but is one of the guys competing for the closers role ... Auburn has seven play-

ers on the roster that have been selected in the MLB Draft but chose to play forAuburn instead of professionally ... Two of those players, Andrew Morris andKevin Patterson, have been drafted twice ... The Auburn team elected four captainsthis year in seniors Wes Gilmer, Kevin Patterson and Sean Ray and junior Jon LukeJacobs ... For Patterson, this is the third straight year that he has been voted a teamcaptain by his teammates.

FLORIDA GatorsFlorida will kick off its 97th season of competition this weekendby hosting in-state rival USF at McKethan Stadium. The Gatorswere picked No. 1 in Baseball America's preseason Top 25 rankings for the firsttime in school history, are No. 2 in Collegiate Baseball and No. 3 in both the USAToday/ESPN and NCBWA polls. UF returns five freshman All-Americans andnumerous other key players from a team that won the 2010 SoutheasternConference regular title and reached the NCAA College World Series for the firsttime since 2005. Fourth-year head coach Kevin O'Sullivan's club returns 22 let-terwinners, including eight position starters and 11 pitchers, from a squad thatwent 47-17 last season and advanced to Omaha, Neb., for the CWS for the sixthtime in school history. Eleven newcomers, including nine freshmen, will be don-ning the Orange and Blue in '11 as the team attempts to defend its SEC regular-season and Eastern Division crowns. Florida boasts a solid nucleus that includestwo-time, first-team All-SEC senior second baseman Josh Adams, 2010 second-team All-SEC recipient Preston Tucker and five sophomores who were FreshmanAll-Americans last season: shortstop Nolan Fontana, left-hander/first basemanBrian Johnson, infielder Austin Maddox, right-hander Hudson Randall and catch-er Mike Zunino. Maddox, junior left-hander Alex Panteliodis and Tucker werenamed to preseason All-America teams released by Louisville Slugger and theNational Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) and the duo ofJohnson and Tucker was chosen to Baseball America's squad. The Gators' 56-game schedule features 35 games within the friendly confines of McKethanStadium at Perry Field, where the squad registered a program-best 33-3(.917) mark last season and is 90-19 (.826) during O'Sullivan’s tenure. UF has 27games versus opponents who advanced to the 2010 NCAA Tournament, includ-ing home series against defending national champion South Carolina and Miami(Fla.), and will have six series totaling 19 games against teams that reached SuperRegionals.

GEORGIA BulldogsGeorgia opens up at Stetson in a three-game series Friday. The

Bulldogs lead the overall series 7-2 including a three-game sweeplast year in Athens. This year marks only the third time in theDavid Perno era that the Bulldogs will open a season on the road. Last year,Georgia went 2-2 during the opening weekend in Waco, Texas, facing Duke twiceand the host Baylor Bears twice. Georgia is led by second team preseason All-American outfielder Zach Cone.

KENTUCKY WildcatsRiding a stretch of five-consecutive winning seasons, theKentucky baseball team will open its 2011 campaign as part of athree-game opening weekend in Charleston, S.C., facing host No.20 College of Charleston in the season lidlifter on Friday at 5 p.m. ET at theBallpark at Patriots Point. UK will also face Marshall on Saturday at 5 p.m. ET andMiami (Ohio) on Sunday at 11 a.m. ET. All three games will be broadcast live onthe Big Blue Sports Network (radio), with Dick Gabriel voicing the action. Fans canhear the games live on UKathletics.com and fans in Lexington can hear the gamelive on WGVN 1580-AM. The Wildcats are coming off a 31-25 season in 2010,finishing a win shy of advancing to the Southeastern Conference Tournament. UKcompleted the regular-season with the eighth-most wins over ranked opponents,playing the seventh-hardest schedule in the NCAA and owning a top-30 RPI. In themidst of a rugged stretch drive late in the 2010 season, UK reeled off a 5-1 stretchin six games, sweeping 2009 NCAA Champion and eventual SEC TournamentChampion LSU and posting a series win over eventual NCAA Champion SouthCarolina. Kentucky returns its entire weekend starting rotation from a year ago andwill start sophomore right-hander Jordan Cooper on Friday vs. the Cougars. OnSaturday, sophomore southpaw Taylor Rogers will get the start vs. Marshall and onSunday junior right-hander Alex Meyer will face off with Miami (Ohio). TheCougars will counter Copper with junior right-hander David Peterson. OnSaturday, Marshall will start southpaw Mike Mason and on Sunday, the Redhawkswill start senior southpaw Tyler Melling. Kentucky has played all three opponents

Team-By-Team Notes


in its history, owning winning series records against Marshall and Miami (Ohio).The Wildcats lead the series with Marshall, 27-10 and leads the series with theRedhawks, 22-13. UK and College of Charleston have meet only once in programhistory, during the history 2006 NCAA Lexington Regional. COC went on to winthe regional in the championship game over the Wildcats, as UK senior starterAaron Tennyson allowed a grand slam in the top of the first inning to the Cougars,with the Wildcats unable to recover. For the third consecutive season and thefourth time in the last five years, the Kentucky baseball team will open up its sea-son in the state of South Carolina. UK opened up the 2009-10 seasons in MyrtleBeach, facing Coastal Carolina and opened up the 2007 season at Furman inGreenville, S.C. The Wildcats opened up the 2008 season at South Alabama inMobile, Ala.

LSU TigersLSU is predicted to win the 2011 Southeastern ConferenceWestern Division title in the annual SEC preseason coaches pollreleased Tuesday by the league office. LSU, which opens its sea-son at 7 p.m. Friday versus Wake Forest in Alex Box Stadium, is ranked No. 15 inthe Collegiate Baseball and USA Today/ESPN preseason polls. The Tigers feature16 returning lettermen from their 2010 squad and 18 newcomers that comprisedthe nation's No. 1 recruiting class. Seventeen of LSU's regular-season baseballgames will be televised in 2011 by national and regional networks. LSU's televisedgames are part of the 15-year Southeastern Conference contract with ESPN thatalso includes ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3.com, Fox Sports Net, SportSouth, Cox SportsTelevision and Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast (CSS). Including postseasongames in the SEC Tournament and NCAA Regional, LSU appeared on TV 33 timesin 2010.

OLE MISS RebelsOle Miss opens the 2011 season on Friday with the first of a three-game series against Wright State with a first pitch set for 3 p.m.Saturday and Sunday's games will both begin at 1:30 p.m. TheRebels take the field looking to advance to the NCAA Tournament for the ninth-consecutive season, and 10th time in 11 years under current head coach MikeBianco. Currently, Ole Miss is one of only 12 schools in the nation to hold anactive streak of advancing to the NCAA Tournament for eight consecutive seasons.Two new pitchers will take the mound this weekend in the starting rotation for theRebels with junior LHP Matt Crouse making his debut as the Friday starter onopening day. Junior RHP David Goforth will make the start on Saturday after serv-ing in the role of Sunday down the stretch a year ago. Junior college transfer andLHP Austin Wright will close out the weekend rotation when he makes his debutfor the Rebels on Sunday afternoon. Also returning to the mound this season are apair of relievers who have proven to be dominant on the mound. Freshman All-America Brett Huber returns for his sophomore season after posting 1a league-lead-ing 2 saves last year that gained him All-SEC honors and Freshman Team honors.Joining him is senior RHP Jake Morgan who missed the 2010 season with rehabfor elbow surgery. Morgan holds a 9-1 record with 10 saves in two seasons as areliever for the Rebel. In that time, he has posted 93 strikeouts and only walked 21batters in 83.0 innings of work. Senior OF Matt Smith returns after leading theRebels in batting average (.348), RBI (54) and tied for the team lead in home runs(12) a year ago. Also back in the lineup is junior IF/DH Matt Snyder who tallied 12home runs to tie with Smith while hitting .347 for the year despite missing 21games due to injury.

MISSISSIPPI STATE BulldogsMississippi State's oldest sport opens its 121st season of competi-tion this weekend when the Baseball Bulldogs launch 2011 play atDudy Noble Field, Polk-DeMent Stadium. Third-year MSU headcoach John Cohen sends his diamondmen against a pair of first-time opponents —- Akron (Fri.-4 p.m. and Sat.-3:30 p.m.) and Lamar (Sat., 11:30a.m. and Sun.-2:30 p.m.) in the three-day double round-robin competition ... Statereturns nine of the 14 players that drew starts and nine of the 14 pitchers that tookthe hill for State in 2010 ... Junior righty Devin Jones will open on the hill for theBulldogs in the season-opener against Akron. Also slated for weekend starts aresophomore right-hander and 2010 SEC All-Freshman pick Chris Stratton andsophomore southpaw Chad Girodo in Saturday's games and junior lefty Tim Statzin the Sunday finale ... MSU has won seven consecutive season-openers andhome-openers. John Cohen is 5-0 in MSU season-openers, 3-0 as a player (1988-90) and 2-0 as a coach (2009-10) ... The Bulldogs play their first 14 and 18 of theirfirst 19 games at Dudy Noble Field ... With additional dates still possible, MSU willappear in 10 regular season TV games in 2011.

SOUTH CAROLINA GamecocksSeveral pre-game festivities are planned for Opening Day on Friday atCarolina Stadium before the South Carolina and Santa Clara baseballgame. Technical Sergeant Steve David, a recruiter in the SouthCarolina Air National Guard will perform the National Anthem with military rep-resentatives presenting the colors and the United States flag. The presentation willinclude a flyover by the United States Air Force. In addition, in recognition of the2010 National Championship, there will be a brief video as well as the raising ofthe National Championship flag. 2010 All-America pitcher Blake Cooper willthrow out the ceremonial first pitch and will be accompanied by former NationalChampionship teammates Parker Bangs, Kyle Enders, Bobby Haney, Jeffery Jones,Whit Merrifield and Jordan Propst. Tickets are still available for all three games ofthis weekend's South Carolina-Santa Clara baseball series at Carolina Stadium. Firstpitch on Opening Day on Friday is 3 p.m. Saturday's game will also start at 3 p.m.with Sunday's first pitch set for 1:30 p.m. Fans may purchase tickets by calling theGamecock Ticket Office at (803) 777-4274 or at the Colonial Life Arena BoxOffice. Reserved tickets are $10 with outfield/grandstand/standing room only tick-ets $8. Fans may also purchase their tickets on game day at the box office atCarolina Stadium. The box office will open on Friday at 1 p.m. at CarolinaStadium.

TENNESSEE VolunteersThe Tennessee baseball team will kick off its 102nd season thisweekend when it hosts Milwaukee for a three-game set, Feb. 18-20.Junior southpaw Steven Gruver (4-4, 6.21 in 2010) will get the open-ing day nod for the Volunteers on the mound, while redshirt freshman Jon Reedand junior college transfer Jerod Peper will take the hill on Saturday and Sunday,respectively. The Big Orange will be looking to improve on its 30-26 record froma year ago, when it narrowly missed out on a trip to the postseason. The show-downs with the Panthers this weekend will mark the first time the two programshave ever competed against each other on the diamond. Fans are encouraged tofollow the action online at UTSports.com where they can interact on the live blogfor each contest. A free live video feed will also be provide for Friday’s contest,while John Wilkerson and Kyle Hixson will call the Sunday game on The SportsAnimal (FM 99.1/99.3/AM 990 in Knoxville). Game updates and other informationcan also be found on Twitter by following @VolBaseball.

VANDERBILT CommodoresWith Opening Day of the 2011 College Baseball Season just a dayaway, the Vanderbilt Commodores were picked to finish second inthe Southeastern Conference East Division by the league's coaches. The Doresopen the season Friday in San Diego against the University of San Diego with firstpitch slated for 4 p.m. CT. VU will play the Toreros Saturday (5 p.m. CT) andSunday (3 p.m. CT) along with one game against San Diego State on Saturday (9p.m. CT). Hawkins Field will host its first game of the year Wednesday, February23 when the Belmont Bruins travel across town to take on the Commodores. SECplay begins Friday, March 18 when the Mississippi State Bulldogs visit Nashville.Vanderbilt is scheduled to play on television at least 10 times during SEC play thisspring, including three games on the ESPN family of networks.

Team-By-Team Notes


SEC NOTESSECond To None

In the past 21 years, the Southeastern Conference has been the top collegebaseball conference in the nation. Consider:

• Since 1990, 138 squads have received NCAA Tournament bids to leadthe nation.

• A nation-leading 40 SEC teams have recorded College World Seriesberths since 1990, winning eight of the last 21 NCAA titles (1990, 1991,1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2009 and 2010) and four runner-ups (1997, 2002,2005 and 2008).

• Nine different SEC squads (Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida,Georgia, LSU, Mississippi State, South Carolina, Tennessee) have made CWSappearances since 1990, the most squads from a conference to appear inOmaha since that time.

• SEC squads have appeared in 25 of the last 26 College World Series,with the lone miss in 1992.

• Since 1990, 25 SEC squads have posted 50+ wins, while 103 have won40+ games in a season, including seven in 2010.

SEC IN THE COLLEGE WORLD SERIESSince 1990, the Southeastern Conference has been the most successful

baseball conference in the country. The SEC has won eight of the last 21NCAA titles (1990, 1991, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2009 and 2010), finishedrunner-up four times and has put more teams in the College World Seriesthan any conference in the country. Take a look at the SEC's success in thelast 21 years:

CONFERENCE RECORDS IN THE COLLEGE WORLDSERIES

Since 1990(Using current conference alignments)

Conference App. Games W-L Pct.SEC 40 148 79-69 .534Pacific 10 29 109 59-50 .541Atlantic Coast 25 82 32-40 .444Big 12 24 70 31-39 .443Big West 16 57 30-27 .526Independents 10 36 21-15 .583Missouri Valley 6 18 8-10 .444Western Athletic 6 23 12-11 .522C-USA 6 17 5-12 .294Big East 2 6 2-4 .333Southern 2 5 1-4 .200Mountain West 1 5 3-2 .600Sun Belt 1 4 2-2 .500West Coast 1 4 4-0 1.000

• Not counting games against each other, the SEC has posted a 62-53 recordin the College World Series since 1990, a 56.5 winning percentage.• Since 1990, an SEC team has played in 131 of the 301 games in theCollege World Series, an amazing 43.5 percent of games. SEC teams playedin 12 of the 15 games of the 2004 College World Series and in eight of the15 in 2005.• The SEC has sent nine of its 12 schools to the College World Series since1990. The ACC has sent eight, while the Big 12 and the Pac-10 are next withsix each.• The SEC has played 35 games in the "Final Four" of the College WorldSeries since 1990, an average of over 1.5 per year.

SEC FIRST ROUND MAJOR LEAGUE PICKSThree SEC players were taken in the first round of the 2010 Major League

Baseball Amateur Draft, held Tuesday in New York City, including the fifthpick overall. Ole Miss’ Drew Pomeranz was picked fifth by the ClevelandIndians. Zack Cox of Arkansas was selected 25th by the St. Louis Cardinals,while LSU’s Anthony Ranaudo was 39th by the Boston Red Sox. With thosethree selections this year, the SEC has now had a first round selection in eachyear since 1991 and 83 total in the first round during that time.

SEC TIESWith the hiring of John Cohen at Mississippi State in the summer of

2008, there are now three SEC head coaches (David Perno-Georgia; DaveVan Horn-Arkansas) who played at and now are the head coach at theiralma mater. Two other head coaches are former SEC players as well: OleMiss’ Mike Bianco (played at LSU) and LSU’s Paul Mainieri (played one sea-son at LSU).

2011 PRESEASON POLL RESULTSEastern Division

Team Pts. '10 SEC Rec/FinishFlorida 66 22-8 / 1st Vanderbilt 55 16-12 / 3rd South Carolina 48 21-9 / 2nd Kentucky 33 13-17 / 4th Georgia 26 5-23 / 6th Tennessee 17 12-18 / 5th

Western Division Team Pts. '10 SEC Rec/FinishLSU 63 14-16 / 5th Arkansas 49 18-12 / 2nd Auburn 46 20-10 / 1st Ole Miss 40 16-14 / 3rd Alabama 33 15-15 / 4th Mississippi State 17 6-24 / 6th

SEC Champion: Florida

SEC BEGINS 77TH SEASON OF CONFERENCE PLAYThis marks the 77th season of conference play in the SEC. In 1933, base-

ball became one of the first sports in which the SEC crowned a champion. Theleague did not sponsor teams in 1945 and 1946 due to World War II.

The SEC standings below include all regular-season games from 1933-2010,with SEC Tournament games counting in 1993 and 1994.

All-Time SEC StandingsTeam Years Games Won Lost Tied Pct.Florida 74 1441 862 577 2 .599Alabama 76 1557 877 677 3 .564S. Carolina 19 543 302 240 1 .557LSU 76 1524 831 691 5 .547Miss. State 76 1512 812 699 1 .537Auburn 76 1493 799 694 3 .536Arkansas 19 543 272 271 0 .501Ole Miss 76 1475 707 766 2 .480Tennessee 68 1385 658 726 1 .475Georgia 76 1496 704 790 2 .471Kentucky 71 1439 610 823 8 .427Vanderbilt 64 1345 517 827 9 .388

All-Time RecordsTeam Years Games Won Lost Tied Pct.Miss. State 120 3722 2328 1366 28 .629Alabama 117 3795 2372 1400 23 .628S. Carolina 119 3674 2264 1393 17 .619Arkansas 88 3080 1875 1199 6 .610Florida 96 3611 2177 1410 24 .606LSU 115 3663 2203 1437 23 .605Auburn 76 2970 1791 1173 6 .604Georgia 123 3584 2032 1529 23 .570Ole Miss 110 3284 1874 1390 20 .574Tennessee 101 3210 1815 1381 14 .568Vanderbilt 112 3559 1938 1589 32 .549Kentucky 100 3100 1672 1403 25 .543


2010 HITTING STREAKSFinal

SEC IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

The Southeastern Conference has long been tapped as a resource forthe major leagues, dating back as far as the 1800’s. According to therecords of each of the league’s current institutions, 402 former playershave spent time in the majors through the end of the 2009 season.

On opening day of the 2010 season, 44 former SEC players were list-ed on MLB opening day 25-man rosters. LSU led the league with eightformer players in the bigs, while Florida and Tennessee had six each.Mississippi State and Alabama had four players while Auburn, Georgiaand Kentucky had three. The complete listing follows:

AlabamaAlex Avila Detroit Lance Cormier Tampa Bay *Matt Downs San Francisco Tommy Hunter Texas (DL)*Wade LeBlanc San Diego David Robertson NY Yankees*Taylor Tankersley Florida

Arkansas*Craig Gentry Texas Eric Hinske Atlanta*Cliff Lee Seattle*Jess Todd Cleveland

Auburn#Josh Donaldson OaklandGabe Gross OaklandTim Hudson AtlantaDavid Ross Atlanta

Florida*Bryan Augenstein ArizonaDavid Eckstein San DiegoMark Ellis Oakland Matt LaPorta ClevelandDarren O'Day TexasRyan Raburn DetroitDavid Ross Atlanta

GeorgiaGordon Beckham Chi. White SoxMitchell Boggs St. LouisJeff Keppinger Houston*Clint Sammons Atlanta

KentuckyJoe Blanton PhiladelphiaScott Downs Toronto *Ryan Strieby DetroitBrandon Webb Arizona

LSUMike Fontenot Chicago CubsBrad Hawpe Colorado

Aaron Hill Toronto Greg Smith Colorado Nick Stavinoha St. Louis Brian Tallet Toronto Ryan Theriot Chicago CubsBrian Wilson San Francisco

Ole MissChris Coghlan Florida Seth Smith Colorado

Mississippi StatePaul Maholm PittsburghBrandon Medders San FranciscoJonathan Papelbon BostonCraig Tatum Baltimore

South Carolina*Billy Buckner Arizona Adam Everett Detroit *Steve Pearce Pittsburgh *Landon Powell Oakland Brian Roberts Baltimore #Justin Smoak Texas#Steven Tolleson Oakland

TennesseeJulio Borbon TexasChase Headley San DiegoTodd Helton ColoradoLuke Hochevar Kansas CityMike Lincoln CincinnatiAugie Ojeda Arizona

VanderbiltJensen Lewis ClevelandDavid Price Tampa Bay

* Appears on club’s 40-man roster# Added after opening day

Season (min 10)Justin Fradejas, AU 27Zack Cox, ARK 24Jackie Bradley Jr., SC 22Josh Rutledge, UA 21Monk Kreder, ARK 20Whit Merrifield, SC 19Zach Cone, UG 18Matt Smith, UM 18Matt den Dekker, UF 16Hunter Morris, AU 16Jake Smith, UA 16Zack Cox, ARK 15Anthony Gomez, VU 14Mikie Mahtook, LSU 14Josh Rutledge, UA 14Andy Burns, UK 13Matt den Dekker, UF 13Jason Esposito, VU 13Micah Gibbs, LSU 13P.J. Polk, UT 13Chris Bisson, UK 12Jet Butler, MSU 12Brian Fletcher, AU 12Brian Johns, VU 12

Whit Merrifield, SC 12Trent Mummey, AU 12Austin Nola, LSU 12Daniel Pigott, UF 12Keenan Wiley, UK 12Mike Zunino, UF 12Chris Bisson, UK 11Tim Carver, ARK 11Blake Forsythe, UT 11Gunner Glad, UK 11Collin Kuhn, ARK 11Adrian Morales, SC 11Travis Sample, ARK 11Preston Tucker, UF 11Jason Esposito, VU 10T. Hightower, UM 10Ryan Jenkins, AU 10Braden Kapteyn, UK 10Khayyan Norfork, UT 10Austin Maddox, UF 10Matt Ramsey, UT 10Peter Verdin, UG 10Trey Watkins, LSU 10Chad Wright, UK 10

SEC NOTES

Current (min 10)Zack Cox, ARK 10Cody Hawn, UT 10Brian Johnson, UF 10


America East 0-0 .000Atlantic Coast 0-0 .000Atlantic 10 0-0 .000Big East 0-0 .000Big Sky 0-0 .000Big South 0-0 .000Big Ten 0-0 .000Big 12 0-0 .000Big West 0-0 .000Colonial 0-0 .000Conference USA 0-0 .000Ivy League 0-0 .000Metro Atlantic Ath. 0-0 .000Mid-American 0-0 .000Mid-Continent 0-0 .000Mid-Eastern Ath. 0-0 .000Midwestern Coll. 0-0 .000

Missouri Valley 0-0 .000Northeast 0-0 .000Ohio Valley 0-0 .000Pacific-10 0-0 .000Patriot 0-0 .000Southern 0-0 .000Southland 0-0 .000Southwestern Ath. 0-0 .000Sun Belt 0-0 .000Trans America Ath. 0-0 .000West Coast 0-0 .000Western Athletic 0-0 .000Independents 0-0 .000Non-Division I 0-0 .000

Non-Conference Record0-0 (0.000) • Preseason

NATIONAL PLAYER & PITCHER OF THE WEEK AWARD WINNERS

Week Player Position Organization


2010 SEC ATTENDANCE LEADERS

As of June 15 (Final)

Year after year, the SEC continues to be the benchmark in paid college

baseball attendance. The SEC and its member schools own virtually all regu-

lar season, conference tournament, NCAA Regional and Super Regional

attendance records. The SEC and one of its institutions have led the NCAA in

total and average attendance for the last 13 seasons in a row, and 18 of the

last 24 years. In 2005, the SEC set a goal to reach the 1.5 million attendance

mark for the first time in league history and came within 10,000 fans of reach-

ing that goal. The drive was renewed and continued for the 2006 season, a

season which saw over 1.6 million fans at SEC ballparks. In 2007, the SEC

drew nearly 1.7 million and averaged for 4,000 per game for first time in his-

tory. In 2008 the league drew over 1.6 million and 4,000 per game again. In

2009, attendance records were smashed as total numbers neared 1.9 million,

an average of almost 4,700 per game.Team *Home Dates Total AverageLSU 38 404,916 10,655Arkansas 39 302,934 7,767Ole Miss 34 231,818 6,818South Carolina 36 241,582 6,710Mississippi State 33 194,094 5,881Alabama 27 112,210 4,155Florida 37 126,195 3,410Auburn 38 101,495 2,670Georgia 28 73,734 2,633Vanderbilt 32 72,602 2,268Kentucky 30 55,785 1,859Tennessee 33 53,777 1,629

TOTALS 405 1,971,142 4,867*Some teams have played doubleheaders at various points of the season, giving them less home dates than they have played actual home games.

TOP HOME CROWDS OF 2010

Date Matchup Attendance

April 17 Alabama at LSU 12,313

Feb. 19 Centenary at LSU 11,588

April 16 Alabama at LSU 11,332

March 19 Arkansas at LSU 11,225

March 6 Pepperdine at LSU 11,220

March 12 Kansas at LSU 11,157

Feb. 20 Centenary at LSU 11,126

April 17 Tennessee at Mississippi State 11,089

March 14 Kansas at LSU 11,074

April 2 Georgia at LSU 11,010

TOP NEUTRAL SITE CROWDS OF 2010

April 27 Georgia vs. Georgia Tech 16,194(Turner Field; Atlanta, Ga.)

May 18 Arkansas vs. Louisiana Tech 10,200(Dickey-Stephens Park; North Little Rock, Ark.)

March 30 Florida vs. Florida State 9,276(The Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville; Jacksonville, Fla.)

March 30 Ole Miss vs. Mississippi State 7,332(Trustmark Park; Pearl, Miss.)

March 24 Alabama vs. Auburn 7,205(Riverwalk Stadium; Montgomery, Ala.)

March 6 Clemson vs. South Carolina 7,105(Fluor Field; Greenville, S.C.)

2010 SEC BASEBALL

2009 SEC Baseball AttendanceTeam *Home Dates Total AverageLSU 42 403,056 9,596Arkansas 31 245,092 7,906Ole Miss 39 273,111 7,002South Carolina 34 231,360 6,804Mississippi State 26 157,530 6,058Alabama 29 116,294 4,010Florida 40 119,252 2,981Georgia 32 93,360 2,917Vanderbilt 29 70,519 2,431Auburn 34 75,801 2,229Kentucky 32 53,646 1,676Tennessee 34 46,150 1,357

TOTALS 402 1,885,171 4,689

*Some teams have played doubleheaders at various points of the season, giving them less home dates than they have played actual home games.

TOP 10 HOME CROWDS OF 2009Date Matchup AttendanceApril 8 Arizona State at Arkansas 11,434May 9 Florida at LSU 10,923April 18 Kentucky at Mississippi State 10,555April 18 Tennessee at LSU 10,414June 6 Virginia at Ole Miss 10,323June 6 Rice at LSU 10,279March 6 Illinois at LSU 10,246May 8 Florida at LSU 10,203April 17 Tennessee at LSU 10,140June 7 Virginia at Ole Miss 10,110

2008 SEC Baseball AttendanceTeam *Home Dates Total AverageLSU 42 318,798 7,590Arkansas 32 222,985 6,968Mississippi State 30 189,007 6,300Ole Miss 33 159,351 4,828South Carolina 35 167,393 4,782Alabama 28 124,740 4,455Florida 31 96,235 3,104Georgia 37 93,152 2,517Auburn 35 84,879 2,425Kentucky 34 61,889 1,820Tennessee 28 41,899 1,496 Vanderbilt 31 41,135 1,326TOTALS 396 1,601,463 4,044*Some teams have played doubleheaders at various points of the season, giving themless home dates than they have played actual home games.

TOP HOME CROWDS OF 2008Date Matchup AttendanceMarch 29 Georgia at Mississippi State 9,424April 12 LSU at Ole Miss 9,412May 11 Mississippi State at LSU 8,701Feb. 22 Indiana at LSU 8,675April 19 Tennessee at Arkansas 8,577May 9 Mississippi State at LSU 8,548April 5 Auburn at Arkansas 8,437Feb. 23 Indiana at LSU 8,406May 3 Alabama at Arkansas 8,349June 9 UC Irvine at LSU 8,348

ATTENDANCE BREAKDOWN

SEC NCAA & COLLEGE WORLD SERIES HISTORY


SEC In TheCollege World Series

Year School Finish

1950 Alabama Sixth1951 Tennessee Second1956 Ole Miss Third1964 Ole Miss Eighth1967 Auburn Third1969 Ole Miss Fifth1971 Miss. State Eighth1972 Ole Miss Eighth1976 Auburn Eighth1979 Miss. State Fifth1981 Miss. State Sixth1983 Alabama Second1985 Miss. State Fourth1986 LSU Fifth-tie1987 LSU Fourth

Georgia Seventh-tie1988 Florida Fifth-tie1989 LSU Fourth1990 Georgia First

LSU Third-tieMiss. State Fifth-tie

1991 LSU FirstFlorida Third-tie

1993 LSU First1994 Auburn Seventh-tie

LSU Seventh-tie1995 Tennessee Third-tie1996 LSU First

Florida Third-tieAlabama Fifth-tie

1997 LSU FirstAlabama SecondAuburn Fifth-tieMiss. State Fifth-tie

1998 LSU Third-tieMiss. State Fifth-tieFlorida Seventh-tie

1999 Alabama Third-tie2000 LSU First2001 Georgia Seventh-tie

Tennessee Third-tie2002 South Carolina Second2003 LSU Seventh-tie

South Carolina Fifth-tie2004 South Carolina Third-tie

Georgia Third-tieArkansas Seventh-tieLSU Seventh-tie

2005 Florida SecondTennessee Seventh-tie

2006 Georgia Seventh-tie2007 Mississippi State Seventh-tie2008 Georgia Second

LSU Fifth-tie2009 LSU First

Arkansas Third-tie2010 South Carolina First

Florida Seventh-tie

College World Series Record(1933-2010)

Team App. Won Lost Pct. 1st 2ndSouth Carolina 4 14 7 .667 1 1LSU 15 35 20 .636 6 0Alabama 5 11 10 .524 0 2Tennessee 4 8 8 .500 0 1Georgia 6 10 11 .476 1 1Florida 6 8 13 .381 0 1Miss. State 8 7 16 .304 0 0Auburn 4 3 8 .273 0 0Ole Miss 4 3 8 .273 0 0Arkansas 2 2 4 .333 0 0TOTALS 55 101 108 .483 8 6

*Prior to SEC MembershipSouth Carolina 5 9 10 .474 0 2Arkansas 4 7 8 .467 0 1

Last Appearance/Highest FinishTeam Last Appearance Highest FinishAlabama 1999 Second (1983; 1997)Arkansas 2009 Second (1979)Auburn 1997 Third (1967)Florida 2010 Second (2005)Georgia 2008 First (1990)Kentucky N/A N/ALSU 2009 First (1991; ‘93; ‘96; ‘97; 2000; ‘09)Ole Miss 1972 Third (1956)Miss. State 2007 Third (1985)South Carolina 2010 First (2010)Tennessee 2005 Second (1951)Vanderbilt N/A N/A

NCAA Tournament Record(1933-2010)

Team App. Won Lost Pct.LSU 24 123 47 .724South Carolina 14 55 29 .655Georgia 10 46 28 .622Alabama 21 51 33 .607Tennessee 10 31 21 .596Miss. State 28 72 53 .576Florida 26 72 55 .567Ole Miss 16 41 33 .554Auburn 18 42 39 .519Vanderbilt 9 20 19 .513Arkansas 13 28 28 .500Kentucky 6 10 12 .455TOTALS 195 591 397 .598*Prior to SEC MembershipSouth Carolina 12 48 27 .640Arkansas 10 25 21 .543

*Note: Arkansas and South Carolina totals not counted in SEC totals prior to SECmembership.

2011 NCAA Tournament DatesJune 3-6 Regionals Campus Sites

June 10-13 Super Regionals Campus Sites

June 18-29 College World Series Omaha, Neb.

2010 SEC TOURNAMENTThe Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament returned for

a 12th straight year to Regions Park in Hoover, Ala., May 26-30.The SEC Tournament follows an eight-team double elimination

tournament that is modeled after the College World Series. The tour-nament field included the top eight teams based on conference win-ning percentage.

The eight teams were seeded 1-8 with the two divisional cham-pions guaranteed the top two seeds.

Wednesday, May 26

Game 1 9:30 a.m. #7 Alabama 7 vs. #2 Auburn 1 [SPSO]

Game 2 TBD #6 Ole Miss 3 vs. #3 South Carolina 0 [SPSO]

Game 3 4:30 p.m. #8 LSU 10 vs. #1 Florida 6 [CSS]

Game 4 TBD #5 Vanderbilt 2 vs. #4 Arkansas 0 [CSS]

Thursday, May 27

Game 5 9:30 a.m. Auburn 3 vs. South Carolina 1 (12) [CSS]

Game 6 TBD Florida 5 vs. Arkansas 4 [CSS]

Game 7 4:30 p.m. Alabama 6 vs. Ole Miss 3 [CSS]

Game 8 TBD LSU 7 vs. Vanderbilt 5 [CSS]

Friday, May 28

Game 9 3:00 p.m. Auburn 7 vs. Ole Miss 10 (10) [SPSO]

Game 10 TBD Florida 5 vs. Vanderbilt 2 [SPSO]

Saturday, May 29

Game 11 9:30 a.m. LSU (8) vs. Ole Miss 0 [SPSO]

Game 12 TBD Alabama 5 vs. Florida 2 [SPSO]

Sunday, May 30

Game 15* 1:00 p.m. LSU 4 vs. Alabama 3 (11) [ESPN2]

* - If both bracket winners are undefeated, there will be no games 13 or

14 on Saturday and the championship game Sunday would be Game 13.

All Times are Central

[ESPN2] - ESPN2

[SPSO] - Includes SportSouth, Sun Sports, FOX Sports Southwest, FOX

Sports Houston and FOX Sports South in Kentucky

[CSS] - Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast

SEC Tournament Awards

P Ben Alsup, LSU

P Jimmy Nelson, Alabama

DH Aaron Westlake, Vanderbilt

1B Blake Dean, LSU

SS Austin Nola, LSU

C Brock Bennett, Alabama

2B Tyler Hanover, LSU

3B Jake Smith, Alabama

OF Matt den Dekker, Florida

OF Mikie Mahtook, LSU

Most Valuable Player: Austin Nola, LSU

2010 SEC BASEBALL TOURNAMENTMay 26-30 • Regions Park • Hoover, Ala.

Attendance Figures

2010 Attendance Figures - Regions ParkSession 1: 12,514 (New Session 1 Record) Session 2: 6,772 Session 3: 5,759 Session 4: 12,180 Session 5: 7,605 Session 6: 11,542 Session 8: 13,327 Total Attendance: 126,071 (New Record-High) Average Per Game: 9,698 (New Record-High) Average Per Session: 9,957

2009 Attendance Figures - Regions ParkSession 1: 5,121Session 2: 9,254Session 3: 6,524Session 4: 3,302Session 5: 7,243Session 6: 5,356Session 7: 5,356Session 8: 7,092Total Attendance: 86,048Average Per Game: 6,146Average Per Session: 6,156

1998 Total Attendance: 87,295Per Game Average: 6,235

1999 Total Attendance: 98,873Per Game Average: 7,062

2000 Total Attendance: 85,653Per Game Average: 6,589Per Session Average: 6,481










NATIONAL POLLS2011 Preseason Polls

Baseball AmericaTeam 2010 Record Final ‘10 Ranking1. Florida 47-17 72. UCLA 51-17 23. Texas Christian 54-14 34. Vanderbilt 46-20 145. Oklahoma 50-18 56. Texas 50-13 97. South Carolina 54-16 18. Cal State Fullerton 46-18 119. Connecticut 48-16 NR10. Clemson 45-25 1011. Arizona State 52-10 412. Florida State 48-20 613. Stanford 31-25 NR14. Oregon 40-24 2515. Virginia 51-14 816. Baylor 36-24 NR17. California 29-25 NR18. Rice 40-23 2119. Arizona 34-24 NR20. College of Charleston 44-19 NR21. Texas A&M 43-21 2322. Louisiana State 41-22 NR23. St. John's 43-20 NR24. Miami 43-20 1525. Tulane 32-24 NR

Collegiate BaseballRank School (‘10 Record) Points1. Texas Christian (54-14) 495 2. Florida (47-17) 494 3. UCLA (51-17) 493 4. Clemson (45-25) 489 5. Vanderbilt (46-20) 486 6. Oklahoma (50-18) 483 7. Texas (50-13) 481 8. Texas A&M (43-21-1) 480 9. Oregon (40-24) 479 10. Stanford (31-25) 474 11. Arizona St. (52-10) 473 12. Cal. St. Fullerton (46-18) 470 13. Florida St. (48-20) 469 14. South Carolina (54-16) 467 15. Louisiana St. (41-22) 465 16. Connecticut (48-16) 462 17. Virginia (51-14) 457 18. Miami, Fla. (43-20) 455 19. Georgia Tech. (47-15) 454 20. Louisville (50-14) 451 21. Rice (40-23) 450 22. Arizona (34-24) 445 23. Wichita St. (41-19) 443 24. Coastal Carolina (55-10) 440 25. Auburn (43-21) 437 26. St. John's (43-20) 435 27. North Carolina (38-32) 434 28. San Diego (37-22) 427 29. Fresno St. (38-25) 426 30. Pittsburgh (38-18) 425 31. Washington St. (37-22) 422 32. Arkansas (43-21) 418 33. California (29-25) 417 34. U.C. Irvine (39-21) 414 35. Coll. of Charleston (44-19) 412 36. Florida Atlantic (37-24) 409 37. Kansas St. (37-22) 407 38. Hawaii (35-28) 402 39. Baylor (36-24) 401 40. Kent St. (39-25) 398

USA Today/ESPN Team Record Points Final ‘10 Rank1 UCLA (9) 51-17 741 2 2 TCU (9) 54-14 728 3 3 Florida (7) 47-17 709 8 4 Vanderbilt (1) 46-20 593 13 5 Clemson 45-25 592 4 6 Oklahoma 50-18 587 5 7 Texas 50-13 577 9 8 South Carolina (5) 54-16 564 1 9 Cal State Fullerton 46-18 449 12 10 Oregon 40-24 402 NR 11 Florida State 48-20 401 6 12 Arizona State 52-10 372 7 13 Texas A&M 43-21-1 371 21 14 Virginia 51-14 369 10 15 LSU 41-22 278 25 16 Stanford 31-25 277 NR 17 Rice 40-23 261 20 18 Miami (Fla.) 43-20 249 15 19 Georgia Tech 47-15 214 17 20 Coastal Carolina 55-10 210 11 21 Louisville 50-14 178 16 22 Connecticut 48-16 156 23 23 Auburn 43-21 128 19 24 Arkansas 43-21 113 14 25 Arizona 34-24 110 NR

NCBWARk. School 2010 Record Final ‘10 Rank1. TCU 54-14 3 2. UCLA 51-17 2 3. Florida 47-17 8 4. Vanderbilt 46-20 15 5. Oklahoma 50-18 5 6. Texas 50-13 9 7. Clemson 45-25 4 8. South Carolina 54-16 1 9. Cal State Fullerton 46-18 12 10. Florida State 48-20 6 11. Arizona State 52-10 7 12. Oregon 40-24 25 13. Virginia 51-14 10 14. Stanford 31-25 - 15. Rice 40-23 21 16. Texas A&M 43-21-1 24 17. Connecticut 48-16 22 18. Coastal Carolina 55-10 11 19. LSU 41-22 29 20. Miami 43-20 13 21. Georgia Tech 47-15 16 22. Louisville 50-14 17 23. Auburn 43-21 19 24. Arkansas 43-21 14 25. Arizona 34-24 - 26. College of Charleston 44-19 27 27. UC Irvine 39-21 20 28. Alabama 42-25 18 29. North Carolina 38-22 26 30. California 29-25 - 31. St. John's 43-20 28 32. Baylor 36-24 - 33. Wichita State 41-19 - 34. Washington State 37-22 - 35. Fresno State 38-25 -


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Baseballhe Southeastern Conference, with its storied 77-year his-tory of athletic achievements and academic excellence,has built perhaps the greatest tradition of intercollegiate

competition in baseball of any league in the country since itsinception in 1933.

The SEC posted another tremendous season in 2010 as the con-ference had eight teams earn selection to NCAA postseason playwith South Carolina and Florida advancing to the College WorldSeries. A SEC squad has now appeared in the College WorldSeries 25 of the last 26 years. South Carolina advanced to andwon the National Championship Series, marking the sixth timesince 2000 an SEC team played for the national championship inOmaha and third in a row. LSU won the SEC tournament titleover Alabama. Florida won the SEC regular-season title with a 22-8 conference record, while Auburn won the Western Divisionwith a 20-10 record.

The Southeastern Conference boasts 11 former NationalPlayers of the Year (Vanderbilt’s David Price won in 2007), tenBaseball America Coach of the Year and nine Collegiate BaseballCoach of the Year honors. Also, 143 student-athletes have beennamed first-team All-American, four of which came in 2010.

Three SEC players were taken in the first round of the 2010Major League Baseball Amateur Draft, held Tuesday in New YorkCity, including the fifth pick overall. Ole Miss’ Drew Pomeranzwas picked fifth by the Cleveland Indians. Zack Cox of Arkansaswas selected 25th by the St. Louis Cardinals, while LSU’sAnthony Ranaudo was 39th by the Boston Red Sox. With thosethree selections this year, the SEC has now had a first round selec-tion in each year since 1991 and 83 total in the first round dur-ing that time.

The SEC drew a record of nearly two million fans to its on-cam-pus ballparks in 2010, the fifth year in a row to draw over 1.6 mil-lion. Eight SEC teams drew in excess of 100,000 fans to theirparks in 2010. The SEC averaged a record 4,867 fans per game in2010, the fourth straight year to exceed the 4,000 mark. SouthCarolina and LSU (the last two national champions) both openednew parks in 2009, while Ole Miss’ recent expansion took capac-ity over 10,000. Four teams, all in the SEC West, can now housecrowds of over 10,000. The SEC Baseball Tournament drew anew record-high 126,071 fans in 2010, despite lengthy rain andlightning delays on three of the five days of the event. A newaverage per game attendance of 9,698 was also established at thisyear’s tournament. The SEC Championship Game, broadcastnationally on EPSN2 for the first time, drew 13,327 fans.

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Notes• The SEC has sent 40 teams to the College World Series since

1990. That was accomplished despite no SEC teams making thefield in 1992. LSU has been to Omaha 12 times, Georgia andFlorida five times, Mississippi State and South Carolina four times,while Alabama and Tennessee have been three times each.Auburn has been twice, while Arkansas advanced in 2004 and2009.

• SEC teams have won eight of the last 21 national champi-onships, with LSU winning six (1991, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000,2009), South Carolina winning one (2010) and Georgia claimingthe 1990 title. The SEC has finished runner up four times in thattime, 1997, 2002, 2005 and 2008.

• SEC teams are 79-69 since 1990 in Omaha, a 53.4 winningpercentage. Not counting games against each other, the SEC hasa 62-53 record in the CWS since 1990, a 56.5 winning percent-age.

• The SEC has played 35 games in the "Final Four" of theCollege World Series since 1990, an average of over 1.5 per year.Only five times, 1992,1994, 2003, 2006 and 2007 has the SECfailed to get a team to the “Final Four” of the CWS.

• The SEC has averaged nearly eight games played per year inthe College World Series since 1990. In 2004, 12 of the 15games played in Omaha involved a SEC team. In 1997, the SEChad a team in 13 of the 14 games played in the CWS. Since1990, an SEC team has played in 131 of the 301 games in theCollege World Series, an amazing 43.5 percent of games.

• The SEC has sent nine of its 12 schools to the College WorldSeries since 1990 - Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia,LSU, Mississippi State, South Carolina and Tennessee. Ole Misshas played in three Super Regional finals the last six seasons,while Vanderbilt was one Super Regional win away from Omahain 2010.

• Since 1990, 138 SEC squads have been invited to the NCAATournament, an average nearly seven per season. The SEC set yetanother NCAA record in 2004, 2005 and 2008 with nine teamsearning postseason births. The SEC also had a NCAA-record fiveteams earn regional host sites in 2004 and 2006.

• The SEC has had an NCAA-high 10 different teams competein the 57-year history of the College World Series. In thoseappearances, the conference has registered a 101-108 record, a48.3 winning percentage.

• Since 1990, 25 SEC squads have posted 50+ wins, while103 have won 40+ games in a season, including seven in 2010.

• The SEC posted a 260-92 record against non-conference foesin 2010, a 73.9 winning percentage. Since 1990, the SEC hasaccumulated a 5058-1916-4 record against non-conferenceteams, a 72.5 winning percentage.

• SEC teams have also been strong in the polls. Since 1990,99 conference teams have appeared in the final Baseball Americapoll, 110 in the final Collegiate Baseball poll and, since 1992,100 in the final ESPN Coaches poll. Eight SEC squads appearedin the Top 25 of at least one of the final polls in 2010.

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