Millsaps College -- Based on voting by the head coaches in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC), Millsaps College is a slight favorite to win the 2002 baseball championship. If Coach Jim Page's squad lives up to their billing, it would be the first title for Millsaps since the Majors won the last of their five consecutive conference titles in 1994.
Millsaps received six of the 10 coaches' votes while Southwestern received the other four votes.
As for the division races, DePauw University, the 2001 SCAC baseball champion, is picked to repeat in the East, while Millsaps is the favorite in the West. DePauw became the first Eastern Division school since Millsaps in 1994 to claim the SCAC baseball title. The DU Tigers won the championship on its home field at last year's Spring Sports Festival.
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EASTERN DIVISION
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Vote Totals
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'01 Overall Record
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'01 Division Record
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'01 Division Finish
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DePauw University
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24 (4)
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26-10-9 (.578)
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12-4 (.750)
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1st
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Oglethorpe University
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18 (1)
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17-23-0 (.425)
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9-7 (562)
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T-2nd
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Rose-Hulman Inst. of Technology
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15
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29-15-0 (.659)
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9-7 (.562)
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T-2nd
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University of the South
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13
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11-23-0 (.324)
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4-12 (.250)
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5th
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Centre College
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5
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22-16-0 (.579)
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6-10 (.375)
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4th
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WESTERN DIVISION
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Vote Totals
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'01 Overall Record
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'01 Division Record
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'01 Division Finish
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Millsaps College
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22 (3)
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29-11-0 (.725)
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16-4 (.800)
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1st
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Southwestern University
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20 (1)
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40-11-0 (.784)
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14-6 (.700)
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2nd
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Trinity University
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16 (1)
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26-18-0 (.591)
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12-8 (.600)
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3rd
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Hendrix College
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9
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17-23-0 (.425)
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4-16 (.250)
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T-4th
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Rhodes College
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8
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9-23-0 (.281)
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4-16 (.250)
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T-4th
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First-place votes (in parentheses) are worth five points, second-place worth four, third-place worth three, fourth-place worth two and fifth-place worth one. Predicted order of finish was selected exclusively by the conference's head coaches.
