2014 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team

2014 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball
Conference Southeastern Conference
Division Western Division
2014 record 39–24 (18–12 SEC)
Head coach John Cohen (6th year)
Assistant coach Butch Thompson (6th season)
Assistant coach Nick Mingione (2nd season)
Home stadium Dudy Noble Field
2014 Southeastern Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T   PCT     W   L   T   PCT
Eastern
#25 Florida x†y 21 – 9 – 0   .700     40 – 23 – 0   .635
#23 South Carolina y 18 – 12 – 0   .600     44 – 18 – 0   .710
#1 Vanderbilt y 17 – 13 – 0   .567     51 – 21 – 0   .708
Kentucky y 14 – 16 – 0   .467     37 – 25 – 0   .597
Tennessee 12 – 18 – 0   .400     31 – 23 – 0   .574
Georgia 11 – 18 – 1   .383     26 – 29 – 1   .473
Missouri 6 – 24 – 0   .200     20 – 33 – 0   .377
Western
#4 Ole Miss xy 19 – 11 – 0   .633     48 – 21 – 0   .696
#15 LSU ‡y 17 – 11 – 1   .603     46 – 16 – 1   .738
#28 Mississippi State y 18 – 12 – 0   .600     39 – 24 – 0   .619
Arkansas y 16 – 14 – 0   .533     40 – 25 – 0   .615
#29 Alabama y 15 – 14 – 0   .517     37 – 24 – 0   .607
Texas A&M y 14 – 16 – 0   .467     36 – 26 – 0   .581
Auburn 10 – 20 – 0   .333     28 – 28 – 0   .500
x – Division champion
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of 20:27, 2 July 2016 (UTC)[1][2]; Rankings from NCBWA

The 2014 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team represents the Mississippi State University in the 2014 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Bulldogs play their home games at Dudy Noble Field.

Schedule and results

Game results and box scores can be found at the reference.[3]

SEC Tournament

Mississippi State, the 5 seed, beats 12 seed Georgia and beats 4 seed South Carolina. They then lose to 9 seed Kentucky in an upset and lose to 1 seed Florida, eliminating them immediately before the semifinal game.

NCAA Tournament

Mississippi State, a regional 2 seed in the Lafayette Regional, beats regional 3 seed San Diego State and 4 seed Jackson State. Louisiana–Lafayette, having lost their first game to Jackson State, beats San Diego State and Jackson State, then beats Mississippi State twice to win the regional. Mississippi State finishes 2nd in the regional.

MLB Draft

[4]

Player Position Round Overall MLB Team
Jacob Lindgren LHP 2 55 New York Yankees
Jonathan Holder RHP 6 182 New York Yankees
Brandon Woodruff RHP 11 326 Milwaukee Brewers
Brett Pirtle 2B 23 700 Detroit Tigers

Rankings

Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
NR = Not ranked. RV = Received votes. ( ) = First place votes.
Week
Poll Pre 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Final 
Coaches'[5] 4 4* 4* 20 20 19 16 12 21 NR 22 24 21 21 22 21 21* 21* NR 
Baseball America[6] 8 7 18 12 24 21 16 9 17 24 20 NR 21 20 18 17 17* 17* NR 
Collegiate Baseball^[7] 2 2 18 14 23 24 16 10 21 22 20 28 18 16 17 21 28 28 28 
NCBWA†[8] 4 7 15 12 20 18 15 13 19 22 21 23 21 21 21 22 28 28* 28

^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season.
† NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season.
* New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.

References

  1. ↑ "2014 Men's College Baseball SEC Conference Home Page". WarrenNolan.com. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Southeastern Conference Standings". D1 Baseball. Retrieved June 3, 2014.
  3. ↑ "2014 MISSISSIPPI STATE BASEBALL". Mississippi State University Athletics. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
  4. ↑ "Draft Tracker". Mississippi State University Athletics. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
  5. ↑ USA Today Coaches' Poll
  6. ↑ Baseball America Poll
  7. ↑ Collegiate Baseball Poll
  8. ↑ NCBWA Poll
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