KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS 2018-19 • A school-record 13 teams reached NCAA postseason: soccer (its first appearance), football, men’s and women’s indoor track and field, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s golf, men’s tennis, softball, baseball and men’s and women’s outdoor track and field. • Five teams finished in the Top 25 polls of their respective sports, including three in the Top 10: baseball (No. 3), women’s basketball (No. 4), men’s tennis (No. 9), men’s outdoor track and field (No. 11) and football (No. 25). • MSU claimed three SEC team championships (women’s basketball regular season and tournament and men’s tennis tournament) during the 2018-19 athletic year, tying for its most during any athletic year in school history (three in 1995-96). MSU has now won 40 SEC team championships in its athletic history – 26 regular season and 14 tournament. • MSU combined to win 151 games in the sports of football, men’s and women’s basketball, softball and baseball – the highest total in the SEC. • MSU and Auburn were the only two SEC schools to reach a bowl game, the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Tournaments, the NCAA Softball Tournament and the NCAA Baseball Tournament. • MSU was the only school in the country to produce top five seeds in both the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments and reach a bowl game. • For the second consecutive year, baseball reached the pinnacle of the sport – the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. First-year head coach Chris Lemonis’ squad posted the second-most wins (52) in program history, earned a national seed (No. 6), hosted regional and super regionals at the new Dudy Noble Field, clinched a share of the SEC Western Division title and finished as high as No. 3 in the final polls. • Women’s basketball defended its SEC regular season title and then captured its first-ever SEC Tournament championship before going onto an Elite Eight appearance. MSU finished as high as No. 4 in the final polls. • Men’s tennis won the SEC Tournament title for the second straight year and finished with the second-best record in program history at 24-4. They became the first team in MSU history to capture back-to-back SEC “Tournament” championships.
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