Florida hasn’t done enough this season to deserve the upset pick against a top-5 team. Caglianone gives the Gators a chance to win every Sunday, but throwing what amounts to two freshman arms — Coppola threw one game in his first two years with the team — isn’t the way to win SEC series.

Baseball America projects Florida as one if its last four teams in the NCAA Tournament in its latest mock bracket. Florida would travel to Tallahassee Regional as the No. 3 seed in a field that would include top seed Florida State, No. 2 seed Troy and No. 4 seed Bethune-Cookman.

Florida baseball welcomes the fourth-ranked Kentucky Wildcats to town this weekend as the Gators look to get hot ahead of the postseason.

It took extra innings, but No. 4 Kentucky baseball came back to beat Florida 12-11 in game one Friday afternoon. The Wildcats trailed by four after the fourth inning but they rallied behind home runs from Ryan Nicholson in the eighth and ninth inning.

With 11 more victories, the Cats can win more baseball games in a season than they ever have before. Their previous best was in 2012, when they went 45-18, won two games in the SEC Tournament, and won two games in the NCAA Tournament Gary Regional before a quick exit.