Ole Miss Preview
David Billiot Jr • April 10, 2026
Happy Friday, everyone! Every week, I take extensive notes on LSU’s weekend opponent, including tons of team stats. I run through them on Geaux Deep Dive, but this week I decided to put those on the blog for anyone who doesn’t catch the show. A lot of numbers can also become tough to follow when reading them out, as well, so being able to read them with your own eyes may even be more effective. I will say where Ole Miss ranks out of the 16 SEC teams with each stat that I present and I will also include LSU’s rank in parentheses for comparison. If there are any improvements you would like to see within these going forward, please let me know!
Team Hitting
Runs scored: 13th – 6.6 per game (LSU: 4th – 8.6 per game)
Batting average: 15th - .256 (LSU: 8th - .286)
Doubles: 16th – 49 (LSU: 14th – 57)
Homeruns: 8th – 52 (LSU: 4th – 57)
On base %: 12th - .391 (LSU: 5th - .418)
Strikeouts: 1st – 334 (LSU: 9th – 257)
Walks: T-4th – 204 (LSU: 3rd – 208)
Hits: 16th – 8.0 per game (LSU: 5th – 9.5 per game)
Team Pitching
ERA: 4th – 3.67 (LSU: 12th – 4.58)
Strikeouts: 2nd – 390 (LSU: 1st – 408)
Walks: T-9th – 115 (LSU: 4th – 157)
HRs allowed: 7th – 32 (LSU: T-10th – 25)
Hits allowed: 5th – 7.6 per game (LSU: 12th – 6.9)
Runs allowed: 11th – 4.0 per game (LSU: 3rd – 5.1 per game)
BA against: 5th - .235 (LSU: 15th - .215)
Fielding: 10th - .973 (LSU: 16th - .963)
Pitching Matchups
Game 1 (Friday – 6:30 pm)
Ole Miss – RS Jr LHP Hunter Elliott: 3-1 (8 starts) / 3.79 ERA / 40.1 IP / 60 Ks / 26 BBs / .201 BA against
LSU – Soph RHP Casan Evans: 2-1 (8 starts) / 4.97 ERA / 41.2 IP / 59 Ks / 21 BBs / .205 BA against
Game 2 (Saturday – 4:00 pm)
Ole Miss – Sophomore RHP Cade Townsend: 2-1 (7 starts) / 1.82 ERA / 29.2 IP / 46 Ks / 7 BBs / .189 BA against
LSU – Soph RHP William Schmidt: 4-2 (8 starts) / 2.63 ERA / 41.0 IP / 56 Ks / 14 BBs / .208 BA against
Game 3 (Sunday – 1:30 pm)
Ole Miss – RS Soph RHP Taylor Rabe: 3-1 (2 starts) / 3.20 ERA / 25.1 IP / 32 Ks / 4 BBs / .229 BA against
LSU – Sr RHP Grant Fontenot: 0-0 (1 start) / 1.50 ERA / 12.0 IP / 15 Ks / 7 BBs / .289 BA against
Top Hitters
Tristan Bissetta (Senior RF) - .331 BA / .439 OB / 38 RBI / 32 R / 14 HRs / 6 doubles / 46 Ks / 24 BBs
Judd Utermark (Senior 3B) - .298 BA / .436 OB / 32 RBI / 38 R / 13 HRs / 7 doubles / 42 Ks / 26 BBs
Will Furniss (Senior 1B) - .297 BA / .432 OB / 22 RBI / 23 R / 2 HRs / 6 doubles / 27 Ks / 26 BBs
Collin Reuter (Senior DH) - .282 BA / .383 OB / 25 RBI / 17 R / 4 HRs / 11 doubles / 43 Ks / 14 BBs
Hayden Federico (Soph CF) - .248 BA / .386 OB / 9 RBI / 16 R / 0 HRs / 4 doubles / 16 Ks / 17 BBs
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