The National Collegiate Athletic Association sanctions baseball at American universities and keeps records of all games played. Career and all-time statistics are also kept. Team and individual records have been kept for more than a century. College baseball is played with aluminum bats, so comparing statistics to professional wood-bat baseball leagues is not an equal comparison.
Winningest Teams
Comparing all-time win totals does not give an accurate measure of which teams have been the best in NCAA baseball, due to the fact that some programs have existed for much longer than others. Fordham University, for example, has played 149 seasons and Florida State has played 62, according to the NCAA record book, as of 2010. The University of Texas has the best all-time winning percentage among teams that have played at least 25 Division I seasons. Texas' record, as of 2010, is 3,147-1,101 with 31 ties, and that translates to a .739 winning percentage. Fordham leads the all-time wins category with 4,022 victories, 875 more than second-place Texas.
Home Runs
Pete Incaviglia, a former Oklahoma State player, holds two of the NCAA's most hallowed home run records, as of 2010. Incaviglia clubbed 48 home runs in 75 games in 1985 to set the single-season total home runs record, and he hit 100 in his career to also set the standard in that area. Marshall McDougall of Florida State holds the single-game record for home runs, hitting six against Maryland on May 9, 1999. The historical record for home runs in one inning is two, set by many players. Chris Haynes of LeMoyne was the last to do it, accomplishing the feat on April 12, 2008.
Stolen Bases
The NCAA Division I record for stolen bases in a career, as of 2010, is owned by Wichita State's Phil Stephenson, who finished his college playing days with 206 steals. Two players share the record for most stolen bases in a game -- eight. Fordham University's Bobby Kingsbury accomplished the feat on April 11, 2001, while King Lewis of Bethune-Cookman did the same on March 13, 1994. Don Guillot has the record for steals in a season -- 107 for Texas-Pan American in 1987.
Strikeouts
The pitching record for most strikeouts in a Division I season was seet in 1979, when Derek Tatsuno of the University of Hawaii struck out 234 batters in 174 1/3 innings. Ryan Wagner of the University of Houston holds the record for the highest strikeout ratio in a career, as he averaged 16.8 strikeouts per nine innings during the 2003 season. John Powell from Auburn University is the all-time strikeouts leader, as of 2010, with 602 from 1991 to 1994.
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