NEW ORLEANS – The reigning Sun Belt baseball tournament champions, the South Alabama Jaguars, and the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns are the East and West division favorites in the Sun Belt Conference baseball preseason coaches’ poll heading into the 2018 season.
The Jaguars finished the 2017 campaign with a 40-21 record, including a 22-8 Sun Belt mark. USA swept through the tournament and earned the league's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The Jaguars return eight starters from last season's squad and have been ranked by several rating services during the preseason.
USA led the Sun Belt in hitting with a .