Pittsburg State University has their new baseball coach, and are looking to the Jayhawk conference for their next leader.

 

PSU has hired Brock Buckingham as their next head baseball coach, becoming the sixth head coach in the 46-year history of the program. He will replace Bob Fornelli, who retired following seven seasons with the Gorillas, and 29 total seasons in college baseball, winning 1,120 career games.

 

Buckingham comes to Pittsburg from Cowley College in the Jayhawk conference, where he has served as an assistant coach for 17 seasons, from 2005-06, and 2011-25. He also spent the past six seasons as associate head coach under head coach Darren Burroughs.

 

In his time at Cowley, the Tigers won 720 games, nine KJCCC East Division titles, and five trips to the JUCO World Series. The Tigers finished third in the nation in 2017, and were national runner-ups in 2022.