The USC Trojans baseball program is a college baseball team that represents the University of Southern California in the Pac-12 Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association .[ 1] The team has seen 17 individuals hold the head coach position since it started playing organized baseball in the 1889 season. During some years, the Trojans had two head coaches, and others had non-consecutive tenures.[ 2] The current coach is Jason Gill , who will lead his first season in 2020.[ 3]
Having served for 45 years, Rod Dedeaux holds the all-time wins mark at 1,332.
Conference[ b]
CW
Wins
CL
Losses
CT
Ties
C%
Winning percentage
Postseason[ c]
PA
Total Appearances[ d]
PW
Total Wins
PL
Total Losses
WA
College World Series appearances[ e]
WW
College World Series wins
WL
College World Series losses
Championships
CC
Conference regular season
CT
Conference tournament[ f]
List of head baseball coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards
*Statistics correct as of the end of the 2019 NCAA Division I baseball season
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Name
Term[ g]
Awards[ h]
1
Harvey Holmes
1908
19
17
2
0
.895
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0
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2
Curtiss Bernard
1911
13
10
3
0
.769
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0
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3
Len Burrell
1912
15
6
9
0
.400
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0
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4
George Wheeler
1914, 1923
28
15
13
0
.536
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0
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5
Ralph Glaze
1915
15
5
10
0
.333
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0
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6
Charles Millikan
1916
12
6
5
1
.542
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0
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7
Millikan and Phil Koerner
1917
11
5
6
0
.455
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0
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8
Gus Henderson
1920
14
9
4
1
.679
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0
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9
Henderson and Willis O. Hunter
1921
12
9
3
0
.750
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0
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10
Sam Crawford
1924–1929
108
59
46
3
.560
19
18
0
.514
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0
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0
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11
Sam Barry
1930–1941
232
168
63
1
.726
123
55
0
.691
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5
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0
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12
Barry and Dedeaux
1942, 1946–1950
243
110
28
0
.797
67
18
0
.788
2
8
4
2
3
3
5
2
1
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13
Rod Dedeaux †
1943–1945, 1951–1986
1,768
1,219
540
9
.692
480
267
2
.642
20
100
31
15
58
17
23
12
10
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14
Mike Gillespie
1987–2006
1,237
763
471
2
.618
327
225
0
.592
15
57
31
4
9
7
5
2
1
Collegiate Baseball COY (1998) ABCA West Region COY (1996, 1998) Pac-10 COY (2002) Pac-10 Southern Division COY (1991, 1995, 1996)
15
Chad Kreuter
2007–2010
228
111
117
0
.487
39
63
0
.382
0
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0
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0
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0
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16
Frank Cruz
2011–2012
113
50
63
0
.442
21
36
0
.368
0
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0
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0
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0
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17
Dan Hubbs
2013–2019
389
188
200
1
.485
92
116
1
.443
1
2
2
0
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0
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0
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18
Jason Gill
2020
First season in 2020
^ A running total of the number of head coaches.
^ The Trojans joined the California Intercollegiate Baseball Association in 1927, having played their earlier seasons as an independent. This conference was essentially a division within the Pacific Coast Conference and its 1960 baseball season successor, the Athletic Association of Western Universities . This conference, through expansion, became the Pacific-8, Pacific-10, and finally the Pac-12 Conference .
^ Postseason play involving the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship .
^ Postseason appearances include seasons with NCAA Division I Baseball Championship bids since the tournament began in 1947.
^ College World Series appearances include seasons with CWS bids since the tournament began in 1947.
^ Includes conference playoffs, which occurred between divisional champions from 1947–1959, and in multiple formats from 1970–1978 and 1995–1998. CIBA also held a championship series between its division winners in 1943. One-game playoffs for the right to advance to these events are also included in the totals.
^ Southern California did not sponsor a baseball team in 1890–91, 1895, 1897, 1901 or 1919.
^ National, regional and conference coach of the year awards.
Venues Rivalries People Seasons National Championships in bold ; College World Series appearances in italics