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2006 Baseball Previews

East Carolina
2006 East Carolina Preview
East Carolina first-year head coach Billy Godwin and his staff will look to keep the Pirates among the elite in college baseball and a new look Conference USA with their eye on an eighth consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament in 2006. Four Pirates from the 2005 squad were taken in the Major League Baseball Amateur player draft, two of which (Ricky Brooks and Mark Minicozzi) still had eligibility remaining.
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Houston
2006 Houston Preview
Armed with one of the most experienced group of returning letterwinners in school history, the University of Houston baseball team looks to return to its winning ways during the 2006 season.
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Marshall
2006 Marshall Preview
An exciting new chapter in the long history of Marshall baseball will take place this spring as the Thundering Herd open play in Conference USA. Head coach Dave Piepenbrink welcomes back seven returning starters and 24 returning letterwinners as Marshall embarks on a new series of challenges in C-USA.
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Memphis
2006 Memphis Preview
Head coach Daron Schoenrock enters his second season at the helm of the University of Memphis baseball program with his eyes set on continuing the process of building a well-rounded baseball program.
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Rice
2006 Rice Preview
Rice athletics made a dramatic change in league affiliations for the 2006 season (moving from the Western Athletic Conference to Conference USA), but the Owls' baseball program has every intention of staying right on course. Head coach Wayne Graham, now in his 15th season at the helm of the Owls' program, leads another talented squad into the new-look landscape of C-USA. The Owls' goal of returning to Omaha to play for another national championship remains a constant in a year full of change.
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Southern Miss
2006 Southern Miss Preview
Over the past four years, the Southern Miss baseball team has enjoyed a time of unprecedented success. In fact, the current three-year run by the Golden Eagles baseball program can't be matched anytime in the school's history. In each of those three seasons, the Golden Eagles have won 40 or more games, won 20 or more conference games and participated in the NCAA Regional Tournament each year.
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UAB
2006 UAB Preview
The 2006 UAB baseball team enters the season with high expectations after winning 31 games and qualifying for its second consecutive Conference USA Tournament last year. The Blazers won 14 conference contests in 2005, the team's highest total since Larry Giangrosso took over as head coach in 2000. UAB also picked up victories over Southeastern Conference powerhouses Alabama and second-ranked LSU en route to its most overall wins in eight years.
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UCF
2006 UCF Preview
Jay Bergman begins his 24th season at the helm of the UCF baseball program in 2006 and the landscape of Golden Knight baseball has a drastic new look in the upcoming year. With UCF's move for all sports into Conference USA, Bergman and his team find themselves in one of the premier baseball leagues in the nation. The new-look C-USA should be a perennial top-five conference in terms of RPI and UCF finds itself in prime position to become one of the top teams in the new league.
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