2014 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team

2014 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball
Conference	Southeastern Conference
	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 ^x^y	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