May 24, 2021
SALT LAKE CITY – Utah head baseball coach Bill Kinneberg announced today his decision to retire at the end of the season after 18 years at Utah and 37 overall as either a head coach or assistant.
The 2016 Pac-12 Coach of the Year after leading the Utes to the Pac-12 championship, Kinneberg has won 381 games at Utah and 625 total in his career. He has led Utah to two NCAA Tournament appearances, in 2009 and 2016. The 2009 Utes won the Mountain West tournament championship and earned Utah s first invitation to the NCAA Tournament since 1960. Competing in the Fullerton Regional, the Utes won two games, defeating Gonzaga and Georgia Southern.
Top seed: Arkansas.
Short hops: Arkansas (42-10, 22-8) tied a program record for most conference wins. … Tennessee’s 42 regular-season wins were its most since 1995. … Vanderbilt’s Kumar Rocker and Jack Leiter have combined for a 19-4 record, 2.30 ERA and 256 strikeouts in 164 1/3 innings. … Florida’s four-game losing streak is its longest since it dropped four in a row to end the 2018 regular season. … LSU coach Paul Mainieri picked up his 1,500th career win Saturday.
NCAA AUTOMATIC BIDS
Four NCAA Tournament spots were claimed over the weekend. Arizona (Pac-12) and Nebraska (Big Ten) locked up automatic bids, with the Wildcats clinching a week before their conference’s regular season ends.
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