This years AU Baseball team

[Tigermike 3,039]

For those of you who keep up more than I do, how do you think this team will do this year?

Will this team be bad, mediocre, good, great?

Auburn is predicted to finish 6th in West. link

Coaches Pick Florida To Win SEC Baseball Title

Arkansas picked as Western Division Champion

Birmingham, Ala. -- The Florida Gators are predicted to repeat as the 2012 Southeastern Conference baseball champions, as voted by the league’s 12 baseball coaches in the 21st annual preseason SEC poll.

The Gators, ranked No. 1 nationally in the preseason USA Today/ESPN Coaches’ Poll, seek to capture their 13th SEC Championship. UF returns seven position starters and nine pitchers from its 2011 squad which claimed a share of the overall SEC Championship and advanced to the College World Series finals versus South Carolina.

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, Arkansas was the favorite with 64 of a possible 66 points. LSU came in second with 58 points and Alabama third with 38. Florida was the favorite in the Eastern Division with all 66 points. South Carolina, the two-time defending National Champions, was second with 56, while Georgia finished third with 42.

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 2012 SEC regular season begins Friday, February 17, with conference play set to begin Friday, March 16. The SEC Tournament will be played at Regions Park in Hoover, Ala., May 22-27. The 2011 SEC Baseball Tournament drew nearly 100,000 fans. Six times in the last nine years the tournament has surpassed the six-digit mark in total attendance. The 2010 event drew close to 130,000 fans, an all-time record. An NCAA-record of over two million fans attended games in the SEC last season, the 10th year in a row the SEC has topped the one million mark in attendance, leading the nation once again in that category by a wide margin.

Eastern Division

Eastern Division

Team Points 2011 SEC Record/Finish

1. Florida 66 22-8/Tied For 1st

2. South Carolina 56 22-8/Tied For 1st

3. Georgia 42 16-14/4th

4. Vanderbilt 40 22-8/Tied For 1st

5. Kentucky 25 8-22/5th

6. Tennessee 18 7-23/6th

Western Division

Team Points 2011 SEC Record/Finish

1. Arkansas 64 15-15/1st

2. LSU 58 13-17/Tied For 5th

3. Alabama 38 14-16/Tied For 2nd

4. Ole Miss 34 13-17/Tied For 5th

5. Mississippi State 33 14-16/Tied For 2nd

6. Auburn 20 14-16/Tied For 2nd

What do you think will AU finish last in the west?

[autigeremt 6,652]

Hard to say with all these young/new players. I'm going to say 3rd behind LSU and Arkansas.

[AUBURNJAC 53]

The funny thing is that even if we do finish last in the West, it doesn't neccessarily even mean we suck! I have always liked watching SEC West B-ball. LSU and Miss St. had some outstanding teams when I was in school.

[WarAJEagle 5]

1-0.

[BZ770 2]

I don't follow SEC Baseball but I saw where Alabama got swept by Florida Atlantic. First 0-3 start since 1952.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/02/alabama_baseball_team_off_to_a.html

[BigBlue 0]

Awwwww--i really hate that