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Arkansas Razorbacks baseball

baseball team representing the University of Arkansas

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ4791844
Source-derived summary

The University of Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and is coached by Dave Van Horn. The program started in 1897, and is in its 104th season of play (79th consecutive) in 2026. Arkansas is one of only four schools in the SEC to turn a profit from its baseball program in recent years, along with SEC rivals LSU, Mississippi State and Ole Miss.

The Razorbacks have been to 32 NCAA tournaments and twelve College World Series: 1979, 1985, 1987, 1989, 2004, 2009, 2012, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2025.

Venue

The Razorbacks play baseball home games in Baum-Walker Stadium at George Cole Field, which holds 11,749. Arkansas was the first program in the nation to have an average attendance over 8,000 for the course of the season. Baum Stadium has hosted NCAA regionals in 1999, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2023. The Arkansas baseball team also hosted an NCAA Super Regional in 2004 against Florida State, in 2015 against Missouri State, in 2018 against South Carolina, in 2019 against Ole Miss, in 2021 against North Carolina State, and again in 2025 against Tennessee. One of the games in the 2015 Super Regional series against Missouri State set the all-time stadium attendance mark at 12,167. The first game of the South Carolina Super Regional series had 11, 722 in attendance making it the 3rd highest attended game in Baum stadium history.

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“Arkansas Razorbacks baseball” enters the record as baseball team representing the University of Arkansas. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Arkansas, Razorbacks and baseball can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from Arkansas Razorbacks baseball” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.