Baylor Baseball Post-Game Notes
2/14/2004 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Feb. 14, 2004
Quick Notes
* Injury Report:
OF Reid Brees - DAY-TO-DAY (rib-cage muscle strain)
OF Kevin Sevigny - DAY-TO-DAY (shoulder)
LHP Jerod Theodorakos - DOUBTFUL (elbow, 1-2 weeks)
OF Chase Gerdes - OUT (foot, 4-6 weeks)
* Head coach Steve Smith enters the 2004 season seven wins shy of career victory No. 350.
* Junior Drew Sutton reached base safely in four at-bats going 3-for-3 with a walk in the season opener against LMU.
* Baylor is the only Big 12 school and one of just 12 schools nationwide to have been named to each of the past six NCAA Tournament fields; the others are Auburn, Cal State Fullerton, Clemson, Florida State, LSU, Miami, Oral Roberts, Rice, South Alabama, Stanford and Tulane.
* Baylor has won 40-plus games four times during head coach Steve Smith's tenure and nine times in school history, including a school-record 45 wins last year.
* Since the start of the Big 12 in 1997, the Bears have the league's best conference record at 124-72 (.633). Baylor leads all conference schools in both first-team all-Big 12 selections (21) and first-team Academic all-Big 12 selections (35), and the Bears are the only Big 12 Conference program to have ranked in the top 10 nationally during each of the past six seasons (1998-2003).
* In 2003, USA Baseball named Baylor the 23rd-best program in the nation at providing players for the USA National Team. Six Bears have played for a total of seven seasons wearing the Red, White and Blue: Pat Combs (1988), Jason Jennings (1997-1998), Bryan Loeb (1998), Jon Topolski (1998), Zane Carlson (2000) and Michael Griffin (2003).
* Baylor has had 39 players drafted in the past six years, including four first-round picks. That total ties Texas A&M for the most in the Big 12 during that period.
* Baylor Ballpark was named the No. 3 collegiate stadium in the country in a survey of college coaches conducted by Baseball America in January 2003.
* Baylor Ballpark also was featured as the January Stadium of the Month in the 2004 Baseball America Great Parks Calendar. The Bears' home was the only collegiate facility featured.
* Collegiate Baseball has ranked Baylor's recruiting class among the top 25 in the nation four times in the past six years (23rd, 1998; 25th, 2001; 13th, 2002; 19th, 2003).
* Baylor averaged 3,057 fans per game in 2003, the best average-game attendance in program history. The March 28 game against Texas A&M drew 4,717 fans, the fifth-best crowd in Baylor Ballpark history.
