FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Arkansas checked in at No. 10 in Baseball America’s preseason top 25.
The SEC leads all conferences with 11 teams in the preseason top 25, including six programs in the top 10. It marks Arkansas’ third top 10 ranking of the preseason, as the Razorbacks were previously ranked No. 4 in Perfect Game’s preseason top 25 and No. 7 in D1Baseball’s preseason top 25.
10. Arkansas
- Last Season: 50-15 (20-10 SEC); Reached College World Series
- Final 2025 Ranking: No. 3
- Coach (Record at school): Dave Van Horn (933-472, 24th season)
Arkansas again found itself agonizingly close in 2025, eliminated by eventual national champion LSU on a misplayed ball to left field that ended another season spent operating at the sport’s highest tier. The program’s national title drought remains intact, a persistent absence amid otherwise sustained excellence under Dave Van Horn.
The response was familiar. Arkansas reloaded, reset and positioned itself for another run, leaning on a roster built to contend even as the margin between breakthrough and heartbreak remains thin. Van Horn’s teams have long proven capable of absorbing losses and recalibrating quickly. The 2026 roster reflects that same confidence, constructed with the expectation of competing deep into June once again.
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The Razorbacks, led by 24th-year head coach Dave Van Horn, begin the 2026 season against Oklahoma State at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13 in the Shriners Children’s College Showdown at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. In 2025, Arkansas went 50-15 overall and 20-10 in SEC play to clinch its sixth 20-win SEC campaign and make its 12th trip to Omaha in program history.
Van Horn’s Hogs, the winningest team in the nation since the start of the 2017 campaign with 383 total victories, are the only SEC program, and one of only two programs in the country along with Southern Miss, to win 40-plus games in each of the last eight full seasons: 2017 (45), 2018 (48), 2019 (46), 2021 (50), 2022 (46), 2023 (43), 2024 (44) and 2025 (50).
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