Eastern Kentucky University’s baseball team is ranked 46th in Collegiate Baseball’s Fabulous 50 NCAA Division I Pre-Season Poll presented by Big League Chew. It is the first time the Colonel baseball program has received a pre-season ranking from the publication.
EKU is the highest ranked ASUN Conference team in the top-50 and is ranked higher than such programs as South Carolina (47), Alabama (49) and BYU (50). Others who did not crack the top-50 include Washington, Arizona State, Notre Dame, Southern California, Coastal Carolina, Iowa, Illinois and Indiana.
Louisiana State is the pre-season No. 1 team in the nation. Five other Southeastern Conference teams reside in the top-10 – Florida (2nd), Texas A&M (4th), Tennessee (5th), Arkansas (7th) and Vanderbilt (9th).
The Colonels finished the 2022 season 38-20, champions of the ASUN Conference West Division and tied for the best conference record in the ASUN. It was the most wins for an Eastern Kentucky team since the 1990 squad won 42 games. EKU won all three of its games in pool play to earn a spot in the ASUN Tournament semifinals.
Eastern Kentucky will open the 2023 season on Feb. 17 against Alabama-Birmingham in Mobile, Alabama.
Season tickets are on sale now. EKU’s 25-game home slate includes contests against Cincinnati, Morehead State, Northern Kentucky, Marshall, Bellarmine, Florida Gulf Coast, Liberty and more.
A variety of season ticket options are available. Season ticket prices begin at only $25 for bleacher seating. Chairback seating is available in the lower sections at $99 and upper sections for $50. The ticket office will also release a family plan for $80 that includes four bleacher season tickets and a plan for $175 that includes four upper section chairback season tickets.
Season tickets can be purchased at EKUSports.com/2023BaseSeasonTix. For questions regarding season tickets, contact Raymond White at (859) 622-2122 or raymond.white@eku.edu.
Kevin Britton
Associate Director of EKUSports Communications
