2015 BYU Cougars baseball team
The 2015 BYU Cougars baseball team represented Brigham Young University in the 2015 NCAA Division I baseball season. Mike Littlewood acted in his 3rd season as head coach of the Cougars. For the second consecutive year BYU was picked to finish sixth in the WCC Pre-season rankings.[2] After using three stadiums last season, the Cougars played all of their home games at Larry H. Miller Field. The Cougars surpassed expectations in the 2015 season. BYU won 7 of their 9 conference series (losing series only at San Diego and at Pacific), claimed the 3-seed in the WCC Tournament, and lost 0 home series for the season. The Cougars went 0–2 in the WCC Tournament, losing both games in the ninth inning, to finish the season 28–25, 16–11 in conference play.
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| Conference | West Coast Conference |
| Record | 28–25 (16–11 WCC) |
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| Home stadium | Larry H. Miller Field |
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| San Diego † | 19 | – | 8 | – | 0 | .704 | 33 | – | 22 | – | 0 | .600 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pepperdine ‡y | 17 | – | 10 | – | 0 | .630 | 30 | – | 27 | – | 0 | .526 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BYU | 16 | – | 11 | – | 0 | .593 | 28 | – | 25 | – | 0 | .528 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loyola Marymount | 16 | – | 11 | – | 0 | .593 | 33 | – | 21 | – | 1 | .609 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| San Francisco | 15 | – | 12 | – | 0 | .556 | 23 | – | 31 | – | 0 | .426 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gonzaga | 13 | – | 14 | – | 0 | .481 | 24 | – | 28 | – | 0 | .462 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Santa Clara | 12 | – | 15 | – | 0 | .444 | 26 | – | 28 | – | 0 | .481 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Saint Mary's | 10 | – | 17 | – | 0 | .370 | 28 | – | 27 | – | 0 | .509 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 10 | – | 17 | – | 0 | .370 | 14 | – | 37 | – | 0 | .275 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Portland | 7 | – | 20 | – | 0 | .259 | 12 | – | 42 | – | 0 | .222 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship As of May 24, 2015[1] Rankings from Collegiate Baseball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2015 Roster
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Schedule
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Radio Information
Every BYU Baseball game had a radio/internet broadcast available. 33 games were broadcast on KOVO with Brent Norton (play-by-play) calling the games for his 26th consecutive season. A rotating selection of analysts was used. 14 of the games were simulcast on BYU Radio. BYU Radio also had 4 radio exclusives this season: Mar 6 late night & Mar 7 vs. Hartford & Apr 7 & 28 vs. Utah Valley. Robbie Bullough provided play by play for BYU Radio's exclusive games vs. Hartford as well as the Apr. 28 game at Utah Valley. He also sat in on a couple of games Brent Norton was unable to make. The Apr. 7 Utah Valley game was a BYUtv simulcast.
UC Santa Barbara, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Utah Valley, and Cal State Northridge all provided an internet broadcast through their respective athletic websites.
TV Announcers
- March 5: Hartford- Brent Norton & Jeff Bills
- March 6: Hartford, Game 1- Brent Norton & Randy Wilstead
- March 6: Hartford, Game 2- Robbie Bullough & Marc Oslund
- March 7: Hartford- Robbie Bullough & Marc Oslund
- March 10: @ Utah Valley- No announcers
- March 12: Pepperdine- Spencer Linton & Gary Sheide
- March 13: Pepperdine- Spencer Linton & Gary Sheide
- March 14: Pepperdine- Spencer Linton & Gary Sheide
- March 19: @ Gonzaga- No announcers
- March 20: @ Gonzaga- No announcers
- March 21: @ Gonzaga- No announcers
- March 24: @ Utah- JB Long & Kevin Stocker
- March 26: @ San Diego- Jack Murray & John Cunningham
- March 27: @ San Diego- Jack Murray & John Cunningham
- March 28: @ San Diego- Jack Murray & John Cunningham
- March 30: @ San Diego State- Chris Elow
- April 2: Portland- Dave McCann & Gary Sheide
- April 3: Portland- Spencer Linton & Gary Sheide
- April 4: Portland– Brent Norton & Jeff Bills
- April 7: Utah Valley- Spencer Linton & Gary Sheide
- April 9: @ Loyola Marymount- Chris Turkmany & Derek Georgino
- April 10: @ Loyola Marymount- Justin Alderson
- April 11: @ Loyola Marymount- Dalton Green
- April 21: Utah- Dave McCann & Gary Sheide
- April 23: San Francisco- Spencer Linton & Gary Sheide
- April 24: San Francisco- Spencer Linton & Gary Sheide
- April 25: San Francisco- Brent Norton & Randy Wilstead
- April 28: @ Utah Valley- Jordan Bianucci & James Warnick
- April 30: @ Pacific- Paul Muyskens
- May 1: @ Pacific- Justin Alderson
- May 2: @ Pacific- Ricky Garcia
- May 7: Saint Mary's- Spencer Linton & Gary Sheide
- May 8: Saint Mary's- Spencer Linton & Gary Sheide
- May 9: Saint Mary's- Dave McCann & Gary Sheide- Game rained out
- May 12: @ Utah- JB Long & Jerry Kindall
- May 14: @ Santa Clara- David Gentile & Collin Baker
- May 15: @ Santa Clara- No announcers
- May 16: @ Santa Clara- No announcers
- May 18: Saint Mary's in Moraga- Dean Boerner & Daniel Conmy
- May 21: Pepperdine- Justin Alderson & Frank Cruz
- May 22: San Diego- Justin Alderson & Frank Cruz
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