The Arizona State Sun Devils – which begin their Super Regional series on Saturday vs. Arkansas – are one victory shy (199-50) of reaching 200 wins spanning the past four seasons (2007-10) and rank second on CB360’s exclusive Senior Class Salute. This offering is modeled after a similar feature on sister site CollegeSoccer360.com (see links below): (front page photo courtesy of Arizona State)
One difference between a sport such as women’s soccer and baseball is that senior classes for many baseball programs can be affected by: players leaving early for pro ball; players coming and going via transfer; and some utilizing a redshirt/extra season. Nonetheless, the 28 baseball programs listed below have experienced sustained winning over the past four seasons (with each averaging 39 or more wins per season) … and many of the players who are seniors/5th-year-seniors/redshirt juniors have played key roles in the program’s success during this four-year stretch.
(Note: the Senior-Class Salute will be a regular CB360 feature throughout the 2010 NCAAs and in future seasons … CB360 also will be developing lists for top junior classes based on career wins and top combined records over the past two seasons).
ASU – which has put up nearly identical win totals (49-15/49-13/51-14/50-8) from ‘-07-’10 – trails only fellow Super Regional entrant Coastal Carolina (202-51) among programs with the most wins over the past four seasons (ASU actually has a slight margin on CC in terms of 4-year win pct., .799 to .798). Five other Super-Regional teams currently are listed among the top-10: (4) Florida State (193-62) … (7) Texas (184-66-1) … (8) Virginia (183-66-1) … (8) TCU (183-66) … and (10) Vanderbilt (177-80).
All but three of the 16 Super-Regional teams are included on the below list (all but Alabama, Florida and UCLA).
The Super-Regional pairing featuring the most combined senior-class wins is South Carolina (172) at Coastal Carolina (202) – with 374 – followed by the 370 combined four-year win totals for the Vanderbilt (177) at Florida State (193) Super Regional and the 367 between TCU (183) at Texas (184).
The 25 teams on this list include six from the ACC, five SEC, plus three Big 12 programs and three each from the BIG EAST and Conference USA, along with two Big West squads and one each from the Atlantic-10, BIG EAST, Big South, Missouri Valley, Mountain West, Pacific-10, Southern Conf. and the Summit League.
Three teams on this list – Wichita State (#15), Charlote (#18) and East Carolina (#20) – failed to reach the 2010 NCAAs.
There have been 76 different teams over the past four years (2007-10) that have posted at least one season with 40-plus wins.
Winningest Senior Classes in 2010 College Baseball Season (2007-10)
(prior to 2010 NCAA Super Regionals)
(research courtesy of CollegeBaseball360.com; please credit accordingly)
* – 2010 Super Regional teams
Place Team Won Loss Tie Pct. '10 W '10 L '10 T '09 W '09 L '09 T '08 W '08 L '08 T '07 W '07 L '07 T
(1) Coastal Carolina* 202 51 0 .798 51 7 0 47 16 0 50 14 0 50 3 0
(2) Arizona State* 199 50 0 .799 46 8 0 51 14 0 49 13 0 49 15 0
(3) North Carolina 197 70 0 .738 36 20 0 48 18 0 54 14 0 57 16 0
(4) Florida State* 193 62 0 .757 42 17 0 45 18 0 54 14 0 49 13 0
(5) Rice 186 70 0 .727 38 21 0 43 18 0 47 15 0 56 14 0
(6) Louisville 185 77 0 .706 48 12 0 47 18 0 41 21 0 47 24 0
(7) Texas* 184 66 1 .735 46 11 0 50 16 1 39 22 0 46 17 0
(8) Virginia* 181 62 1 .734 45 16 0 39 23 0 49 15 1 47 11 0
(9) TCU* 183 66 0 .745 46 11 0 40 18 0 44 19 0 48 14 0
(10) Vanderbilt* 177 80 0 .689 41 17 0 37 27 0 41 22 0 54 13 0
(11) LSU 175 84 2 .674 40 20 0 56 17 0 49 19 1 29 26 1
(12) Texas A&M 174 83 1 .676 40 19 1 37 24 0 46 19 0 48 19 0
(13) UC Irvine 173 71 1 .708 37 19 0 45 15 0 42 18 0 47 17 1
(14) South Carolina* 172 81 0 .680 43 15 0 40 23 0 46 20 0 46 20 0
(14) Wichita State 172 85 0 .669 38 19 0 30 27 0 48 17 0 53 22 0
(16) Miami* 171 75 0 .695 37 17 0 38 22 0 53 11 0 37 24 0
(16) Cal State Fulleton* 171 79 0 .684 41 15 0 47 16 0 41 22 0 38 25 0
(18) Charlotte 164 67 0 .710 39 17 0 33 22 0 43 16 0 49 12 0
(19) Mississippi 162 95 0 .630 38 22 0 44 20 0 39 26 0 40 25 0
(20) Arkansas* 161 88 0 .647 40 18 0 41 24 0 34 24 0 43 21 0
(21) Oklahoma* 160 85 1 .652 44 15 0 43 20 0 36 26 1 34 24 0
(21) East Carolina 160 91 0 .637 32 27 0 46 20 0 42 21 0 40 23 0
(23) Georgia Tech 158 80 1 .663 45 13 0 38 19 1 41 21 0 32 25 0
(24) Oral Roberts 157 73 0 .683 35 25 0 33 15 0 48 14 0 40 17 0
(24) Southern Miss. 157 95 0 .623 35 22 0 40 26 0 42 22 0 39 23 0
(24) Coll. of Charleston 157 80 0 .662 44 19 0 35 22 0 39 20 0 39 19 0
(24) Clemson* 157 94 1 .625 41 22 0 44 22 0 31 27 1 41 23 0
(28) St. John's 156 77 0 .670 43 20 0 30 22 0 42 16 0 41 19 0
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