College Baseball 360 Top-50 Update #5

March 15, 2012
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The March 12 CNR Top-50, Presented By Dugouthats.com

The Atlantic Cost Conference (9) edged past the SEC (8) as the conference with the most teams in the current edition of the CB360 Composite National Rankings (CNR) top-50, following play during the week of March 5-11. The top-3 teams (Florida, Stanford & South Carolina) in the CNR remain unchanged, while current #4 North Carolina and #7 Rice have swapped positions from the previous week. Arkansas (now #6) and Arizona (#9) both bumped up a spot, while Florida State made a move from #9 to #6 and Cal State Fullerton (#13 to #10) re-entered the top-10. Texas A&M slipped back from #5 to #8 and Georgia Tech tumbled outside of the top-10 (#8 to #15).   front-page photo courtesy of NC State 

CB360 Composite National Rankings (2012 season) …
• Preseason … • Update #2 … • Update #3 … • Update #4

Carlos Rodon sparked NC State's series win last weekend at Georgia Tech, helping vault the Wolf Pack to #23 in the CB360 top-50.

Surging Kevin Plawecki and his Purdue teammates have moved up to #21 in the CB360 top-50 and have extended the program's best start in more than 50 years to 12-1.

The CB360 top-10 now includes three teams from the SEC, plus two each from the ACC and Pac-12, and one each from the Mountain West, Big 12 and Big West. When projecting the 16 #1 seeds in the NCAAs, based on the current CNR, there would be five from the SEC, four ACC, four Pac-12 and one from the Mountain West, Big 12 and Big West. Half of the current top-50 come from either the ACC (9), ACC (8) or Pac-12 (8).

Scroll down for the complete CB360 top-50, along with various breakdowns from this update. Information on the CNR formula is included at the bottom of this page.

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CNR TOP-50 CONFERENCE BREAKDOWN (after week-4)
ACC (9 … 2 top-10, 5 top-25) – #4 North Carolina, #6 Florida State, #11 Miami, #15 Georgia Tech, #23 North Carolina State, #30 Maryland, #19 Clemson, #31 Wake Forest & #42 Virginia 
SEC 
(8 … 3 top-10, 6 top-25) – #1 Florida, #3 South Carolina, #5 Arkansas, #12 LSU, #14 Mississippi, #17 Georgia, #27 Mississippi State & #28 Kentucky
Pacific-12 (8 … 2 top-10, 7 top-25) – #2 Stanford, #9 Arizona, #12 UCLA, #16 Oregon, #19 Arizona State, #22 Oregon State , #24 California & #32 USC
Big 12 (5 … 1 top-10, 2 top-25) – #8 Texas A&M, #18 Oklahoma, #34 Texas Tech, #38 Baylor & #41 Texas
Conference USA (5 … 1 top-10) –  #7 Rice, #20 Central Florida, #36 East Carolina, #47 Tulane & #48 Southern Mississippi
Big West (3 … 1 top-25) – #10 Cal State Fullerton, #37 Cal Poly & #44 UC Irvine
Southern 
(3) – #45 College of Charleston, #46 Appalachian State & #50 Elon
West Coast
 
(2) – #33 Pepperdine & #43 San Diego
1 Each – Big Ten (#21 Purdue) … Southland (#25 Texas State) … BIG EAST (#26 Louisville) … Atlantic Sun (#29 Stetson) … Mt. West (#33 TCU) … Big South (#40 Liberty) … Missouri Valley (#49 Missouri State)

BIGGEST JUMPS IN THE CNR TOP-50 – North Carolina State (#50 to #23) … Purdue (#30 to #21) … Oregon State (#29 to #22) … Texas State (#32 to #25) … Kentucky (#35 to #28) … USC (#39 to #32)

NEWCOMERS TO THE CNR TOP-50 – #31 Wake Forest, #43 San Diego, #46 Appalachian State and #50 Elon

DROPPED OUT OF THE CNR TOP-50 – #28 Gonzaga, #41 Charlotte , #48. Vanderbilt and #49 Boston College

BIGGEST DROPS IN THE CNR TOP-50 – Clemson (#19 to #35) … Louisville (#18 to #26) … Maryland (#23 to #30) … Texas Tech (#29 to #36) … Baylor (#31 to #38) …  College of Charleston (#38 to #45) … Tulane (#40 to #47)

COLLEGE BASBALL 360 COMPOSITE TOP-50 #5
(updated after week-4, through games on March 11, 2012)

Rank. Team … CNR Points  (previous week)
1. Florida … 99.90  (1)
2. Stanford … 98.62  (2)
3. South Carolina … 97.95  (3)
4. North Carolina … 96.24  (7)
5. Arkansas … 95.16  (6)
6. Florida State … 94.28  (9)
7. Rice … 93.59  (4)
8. Texas A&M … 91.28  (5)
9. Arizona … 91.13  (10)
10. Cal State Fullerton … 89.54  (13)
11. Miami … 87.92  (14)
12. UCLA … 86.32  (21)
13. LSU … 85.68  (15)
14. Mississippi … 85.21  (16)
15. Georgia Tech … 84.22  (8)
16. Oregon … 84.17  (12)
17. Georgia … 79.77  (11)
18. Oklahoma … 78.81  (20)
19. Arizona State … 78.26  (17)
20. Central Florida … 76.32  (22)
21. Purdue … 74.60  (30)
22. Oregon State … 74.55  (29)
23. North Carolina State … 72.04  (50)
24. California … 69.23  (25)
25. Texas State … 69.14  (32)
26. Louisville  … 68.56  (18)
27. Mississippi State … 68.10  (26)
28. Kentucky … 66.86  (35)
29. Stetson … 66.65  (27)
30. Maryland … 65.39  (23)
31. Wake Forest … 58.88 (–)
32. USC … 58.50  (39)
33. TCU … 57.45  (33)
34. Texas Tech … 57.30  (24)
35. Clemson … 56.36  (19)
36. East Carolina … 56.11  (37)
37. Cal Poly … 55.33  (36)
38. Baylor … 54.11  (31)
39. Pepperdine … 53.36  (43)
40. Liberty … 52.87  (45)
41. Texas … 52.46  (34)
42. Virginia … 51.70  (42)
43. San Diego … 51.36  (–)
44. UC Irvine … 50.47  (44)
45. College of Charleston … 49.74  (38)
46. Appalachian State … 49.45  ( –)
47. Tulane … 46.60  (40)
48. Southern Mississippi … 46.40  (47)
49. Missouri State … 45.06  (46)
50. Elon … 43.70  (–)

Next 5 – Coastal Carolina, FIU, Stony Brook, Gonzaga and Virginia Tech
Dropped out of top-50: #28 Gonzaga, #41 Charlotte , #48 Vanderbilt and #49 Boston College

COMPOSITE NATIONAL RANKINGS (CNR) CRITERIA: As the season progresses, CB360′s 100-point Composite National Rankings formula ultimately  is centered around 15 core ingredients – plus a bonus/penalty factor based on record over final-10 games. The CNR combines a diverse collection of “experts” (ranging from coaches, various media, computer calculations and postseason projections) – to help provide a preview of teams that could be in the running for the 2012 NCAA Championship field (hypothetically 50 teams, plus 14 others from lower-rated automatic-bid conferences).

Teams receive points based on their standings in each poll/rating/projection (60 pts for #1; 59 for #2, etc.). For polls involving voting points (coaches and CB) and the various RPI-type ratings, the CNR adjusts to reward teams that have larger margins in the voting/point totals (whereas two teams with nearly the same voting-point total will be closer in the CNR allotment for that poll). Note that strength-of-schedule typically is factored into RPI formulations … thus the actual SOS numbers are used only early in the season (SOS are not used in the CNR when RPI already are in the mix). For the NCAA field projections, teams are awarded CNR points based on their respective seedings, “last in” and “last out,” etc.

The polls/ratings/projections are averaged, with 40 points typically then added to each total in order to yield the 100-point benchmark. Early in the season (projected SOS) and late in the season (final-10 games), a maximum bonus/penalty of 0.3 (SOS) or 0.5 points (final-10) is factored into the formula (in that case, 39.7 or 39.5, rather than 40, is added to the poll/rating/projection avg.).

Here are links to the six criteria currently used in the CNR, as of March 5, 2012:
• National Coaches Poll (USA Today/ESPN), preseason/no update after opening week
• National Collegiate Baseball Writers poll
• Baseball America poll
• Colllegiate Baseball magazine rankings
• Perfect Game rankings
• Boyd’s World preseason projected season strength-of-schedule (bonus points)

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