The Louisiana Tech Bulldogs baseball team represents

Louisiana Tech University Louisiana Tech University (Louisiana Tech, La. Tech, or simply Tech) is a public research university in Ruston, Louisiana. It is part of the University of Louisiana System and classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activ ...

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. The Louisiana Tech baseball team participates in

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. The Bulldogs play their home games on campus at

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History

Conference affiliations

* 1940–1948:

Louisiana Intercollegiate Conference The Louisiana Intercollegiate Conference (LIC) was an College athletics, intercollegiate athletic conference that existed from 1939 to 1947, and featured institutions located in the state of Louisiana. The conference sponsored the following sports ...

* 1949–1971:

Gulf States Conference The Gulf States Conference (GSC) was an College athletics, intercollegiate athletic college football, football conference that existed from 1948 to 1971. The league had members in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Many of the league's members f ...

* 1972–1987:

Southland Conference The Southland Conference, abbreviated as SLC, is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the South Central United States (specifically Texas and Louisiana). It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; for football, it pa ...

* 1988–1991:

American South Conference The American South Conference was an NCAA Division I athletic conference that existed from 1987–88 to 1990–91. The charter members were Arkansas State University, Lamar University, Louisiana Tech University, the University of New Orleans, the ...

* 1992–2001:

Sun Belt Conference The Sun Belt Conference (SBC) is a collegiate athletic conference that has been affiliated with the NCAA's Division I since 1976. Originally a non-football conference, the Sun Belt began sponsoring football in 2001. Its football teams participa ...

* 2002–2013:

Western Athletic Conference The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is an NCAA Division I conference. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the western United States with member institutions located in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah, Washington (state), Washington, and Texa ...

* 2014–present:

Championships

Conference regular season championships

Conference division championships

Conference championship series championships

Conference tournament championships

NCAA Regional results

Stadiums

J. C. Love Field at Pat Patterson Park

Year-by-Year results

Head coaches

Head coaching records

Conference Coach of the Year

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: 6 times * Pat Patterson: 7 times * Wade Simoneaux: 2007

Players

Honors

WAC Player of the Year * Brian Rike, 2007 Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year * T. J. Soto, 1997 College World Series Home Run Derby Champion * T. J. Soto, 2000

MLB Draft

Louisiana Tech has had 74

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selections since the draft began in 1965.

Olympians

Former players

Others: * Jim Case *

* Rick Huckabay * David Lee *

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* Pat Patterson *

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Louisiana Tech Bulldogs Baseball