Arkansas baseball coach Dave Van Horn not with team at SEC Tournament

Arkansas baseball coach Dave Van Horn is currently not with the team as they prepare for their SEC Tournament game against Alabama on Wednesday afternoon. The team reports that he is “not feeling well” but is currently “resting comfortably.”

No further details are available on his status at this time. It also remains unclear whether he will rejoin the team later in the week or miss extended action this postseason.

The Razorbacks’ players are currently in the stands at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium watching the Auburn-Kentucky game which immediately precedes their scheduled game. While Wednesday’s meeting is not an elimination game for either team, it does determine the path each team sees on the way to a potential SEC championship on Sunday.

Arkansas comes into the week as the 3-seed and draws 11-seed Alabama, who took the regular season series from them on the final weekend of the year to secure a spot in the field.

SEC Tournament suffers major delays

The SEC Tournament got off to a rocky start on Tuesday morning when multiple rain delays pushed back the end of the 9:30 a.m. game between Alabama and Georgia. From there, another rain delay forced the first pitch between Florida and South Carlina to be pushed all the way back into the scheduled night session at 6:45 p.m. local time. With six hours in total rain delays, part of the schedule was changed.

Ole Miss and Vanderbilt then squeezed a third game into Day 1, with the potential of playing late into the night. However, one game was pushed back to Wednesday before suffering more delays through the morning. Auburn and Kentucky played their elimination game and set the slate for the second round begin in the afternoon session.

As games are now pushed further back into Thursday, it remains unclear how things could play out if more weather delays any more games.