Kentucky Wildcats baseball
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 2017 Kentucky Wildcats baseball team
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| Founded | 1896 |
| University | University of Kentucky |
| Conference |
SEC Eastern Division |
| Location | Lexington, KY |
| Head coach | Nick Mingione |
| Home stadium |
Cliff Hagan Stadium (Capacity: 3,000) |
| Nickname | Wildcats |
| Colors | Kentucky Blue and White |
| NCAA Tournament appearances | |
| 1988, 1993, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014 | |
| Conference champions | |
| 2006 | |
The Kentucky Wildcats baseball team represents the University of Kentucky in NCAA Division I college baseball and competes in the Eastern division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The current head coach of the Wildcats is Nick Mingione.
Kentucky is the only member of the 14-team SEC to never reach the College World Series. Arkansas and South Carolina, both of which joined the SEC in 1992, have made multiple trips to Omaha since coming aboard, with the Gamecocks claiming back-to-back championships in 2010 and 2011. Another in 2013 The SEC's newest members, Missouri and Texas A&M, both made appearances as members of other conferences.
The baseball program, partly hampered by being the northernmost school in the heavily warm-weather SEC (until Missouri's arrival in 2013), has historically achieved only modest success at best. Under longtime coach Keith Madison (1979–2003), the Wildcats had some good teams. However, due to playing in the same league as national powers Florida, LSU (which won five national championships under Skip Bertman from 1991 through 2000), Mississippi State, and South Carolina, regular-season success was rarely rewarded with a postseason berth. In 28 years, Madison was only able to lead the Wildcats to two NCAA Tournaments, in 1988 and 1993. The Wildcats won their first three regional games in 1988 to move to within one win of the CWS, but lost twice in the championship round to 1987 national champion Stanford, which went on to successfully defend its title.
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