by our College Data Analytics TeamThis page takes a deep look at Baseball at University of Kentucky, a spring sport — team by team, topic by topic, with gender and cross-sport comparisons throughout. UK competes in NCAA Division I-FBS as a member of Southeastern Conference.
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The UK men’s baseball team fields 42 players, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 104. Academic data covers 123 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Among the 16 varsity sports UK reports, baseball ranks #6 by total roster size.
The men’s baseball program is staffed by 4 coaches — 1 head coach and 3 assistants. In all, 4 work full-time and 0 part-time. The head coach is Nick Mingione.
Across the school’s 16 sports, baseball sits #8 by total coaching staff.
These numbers are reported to the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The UK men’s baseball program brought in $5,166,875 in revenue against $5,166,875 in expenses, essentially breaking even. This comes to about $27,234 in operating expense per athlete, or $1,143,839 per team.
Among the school’s 16 sports, baseball ranks #4 by revenue, accounting for 3% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The men’s baseball team earned an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 998 (973 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 94%. It retained 95% of its athletes, with 99% remaining academically eligible.
Compared with the school’s average team APR of 991, baseball grades out ahead at 998.
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Blank metrics mean the data was not reported for this team.