COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou baseball and head coach Tim Jamieson have announced the team’s 2015 schedule on Friday (Jan. 16). In all, the Tigers are slated to play 10 Southeastern Conference series and have 31 home dates on this season’s schedule. In SEC play, fans will get to see the Tigers play weekend home series against South Carolina, defending SEC Champion Florida, Alabama, Ole Miss and Kentucky. In all, Mizzou will play 19 games and six weekend series against teams that qualified for NCAA Regional action a year ago.
Mizzou will open the 2015 campaign at the USA Baseball Training Complex in Cary, N.C., against Iona on Feb. 13. The trip to the USA Baseball Complex is the Tigers’ second in as many seasons as Jamieson’s past coaching experience with USA Baseball has led to the playing dates at the USA Baseball complex. The first pitch for the season opener will be at 2 p.m. (CT) against Iona and in all, the Tigers will play four games with Iona in Cary that weekend including a doubleheader Saturday.
The Tigers will remain on the road for a four-game tournament the following weekend (Fb. 19-22) in Corpus Christi, Texas, the hometown of former Mizzou pitcher and second-round draftee Rob Zastryzny. The Tigers will open the tournament against Corpus Christi at 6 p.m. on Feb. 19 before playing Sam Houston State, a second game with Corpus Christi and Big Ten power Purdue over the next three days.
After opening the season on the road in the first two weeks, Mizzou will open its home schedule on Feb. 27 with a three-game series against Illinois-Chicago at Taylor Stadium. That will kick off a nine-game homestand and a stretch in which Mizzou will play 16 of 19 games at Taylor Stadium. Following the three-game homestand with UIC, the Tigers will host Central Arkansas in a midweek series on March 3-4 before hosting Wisconsin-Milwaukee from March 6-8. A lone midweek game is scheduled for the following week as the Tigers will play SIU-Edwardsville on Match 11 before heading on the road to open SEC action at Georgia from March 12-15 in Athens.
Following the trip to Georgia, Mizzou will return home to face Air Force in a midweek series on March 17-18 and then host South Carolina in a three-game SEC series from March 20-22. The Tigers will then be on spring break when Arkansas Pine Bluff heads to Taylor Stadium from Match 24-25. The Tigers then hit the road that weekend for a series at Blue Bell Ballpark against Texas A&M from March 27-29.
Next up for Mizzou will be the annual Braggin’ Rights game with Illinois, which will be contested at GCS Ballpark in Sauget, Illinois, at 6:30 p.m. on March 31. The Tigers will then host defending SEC Champion Florida that weekend, beginning April 3 at Taylor Stadium. A three-day series at Tennessee will follow for the Tigers, beginning on Thursday, April 9, in Knoxville.
The Tigers then return to Taylor Stadium for a five-game homestand that includes a Tuesday game against UALR on April 14, a three-game SEC series with Alabama from April 17-19 and a midweek clash with in-state rival Missouri State on April 21. A weekend series with defending NCAA Champion Vanderbilt in Nashville will be next up for the Tigers from April 24-26. A game at Missouri State at 6:30 on April 28 will round out the month of April for the Tigers. Mizzou will open May with a three-game series against Ole Miss from May 1-3 and then will host SEMO on May 5. Mizzou’s first trip to LSU since joining the SEC is scheduled that weekend from May 8-10 in Baton Rouge and Mizzou will close the regular season with a home series against Kentucky from May 14-16. The SEC Tournament is scheduled for May 20 in Hoover, Ala., at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium. The NCAA Regional competition will begin the following weekend (May 29) at selected campus sites.
