Conference Big 12 Conference Assistant coach Trevor Mote (7th year) | 2015 record 13–22 (4–8 Big 12) Home stadium Baylor Ballpark | |
Head coach Steve Smith (21st year) Assistant coach Steve Johnigan (20th year) | ||
The 2015 Baylor Bears baseball team will represent Baylor University during the 2015 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Bears will play their home games at Baylor Ballpark as a member of the Big 12 Conference. They will be led by head coach Steve Smith, in his 21st season at Baylor.
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Previous Season
In 2014, the Bears finished the season 7th in the Big 12 with a record of 26–31, 8–15 in conference play. They qualified for the 2014 Big 12 Conference Baseball Tournament and were eliminated in the semifinals. They failed to qualify for the 2014 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.
February
Baylor opened its season on February 13 as part of a three-game series with Cal Poly. In game one, the Mustangs outhit the Bears 12–7, but Baylor won 8–6. In the second game of the series, the Bears also won by a score of 8–6, and closed out the series sweep with a 6–0 win in the series finale. Baylor moved into the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper poll at #21 nationally following the Cal Poly sweep. Playing as the #21 team in the country, Baylor went 2–2 over the next week. After a midweek loss to Dallas Baptist in which the Bears pitching surrendered eight walks, the Bears dropped the first game of a three-game weekend series to 2014 NCAA Tournament participant Kent State. On February 21, the Bears swept the Golden Flashes in a doubleheader, winning the two games by a combined score of 10–4.
For the final week of February (and first day of March), the Bears fell to #25 nationally in the Collegiate Baseball Poll, and were also ranked #28 in the NCBWA poll. On February 25, the Bears defeated Northwestern State in a game that had been pushed back one day due to inclement weather. Starter Theron Kay allowed no runs over five innings pitched. On the weekend of February 27, the Bears traveled to Fullerton, California to face Cal State Fullerton, a team that had been ranked in the national polls in the early portion of the season. The Bears were swept over a three-game series by the Titans, one in which Bears pitching allowed 28 runs.
Schedule
All rankings from Collegiate Baseball.
Rankings
^ 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.