Baseball Named a Top 100 Program of the Current Era
9/14/2015 12:43:00 PM | Baseball
D1 Baseball has started ranking the Top 100 College Baseball Programs of the current era, and Kent State has been ranked No. 50 in the nation.
The publication had this to say about the Golden Flashes:
           "Casual college baseball fans learned all about Kent State during its 2012 run to Omaha, but the Golden Flashes have been the class of the Mid-American Conference for most of this century, making nine regionals since 2001, and four since 2010. Kent State's highest highs came under the leadership of former head coach Scott Stricklin (now at Georgia), but successor Jeff Duncan led the program back to regionals in his first season in 2014. And one very important constant under each of the last three head coaches has been the presence of pitching coach Mike Birkbeck, who has occupied that post since 1997 (even turning down an opportunity to become head coach in 2004). Birkbeck, a former big league pitcher, is simply one of the best pitching minds in all of college baseball, and a major reason why this program churns out quality arms year after year."
Kent State is the only MAC school to make the list so far and was ranked above fellow Ohio schools Ohio State (89) and Wright State (80).
