After a tumultuous Saturday that produced two dozen upsets in action featuring top-50 teams from the CB360 Composite National Rankings, things slowed down considerably with a limited schedule on Easter Sunday. There were only five upsets among the day’s 18 top-50 games, including: (34) Miami‘s sweep-averting, 4-3 win at (8) Virginia … Florida‘s series-deciding, 4-0 win vs. visiting (11) Ole Miss … and series-sweeping wins by underdogs Florida Atlantic (3-0 at home vs. #24 South Alabama) and Troy, 5-3 v. visiting (50) Middle Tennessee State. front-page photo courtesy of Florida
CB360 Top-50 Scoreboard Pages:
week-7 – March 25-27 | March 28 | March 29 | March 30
week-6 – March 19 | March 20-21 | March 22-24
week-5 – March 12 | March 13 | March 14-15 | March 16 | March 17
week 4 – March 4-5 | March 6 | March 7-8 | March 9 | March 10
week 3 – Feb. 25-26 | Feb. 27 | Feb. 28-March 1 | March 2 | March 3
week-2 – Feb. 18-19 | Feb. 20 | Feb. 21 | Feb. 22 | Feb. 23 | Feb. 24
week 1 – Feb. 15 | Feb. 16 | Feb. 17
In addition to FAU and Troy, UC Riverside earlier swept a CB360 top-50 team by winning the Thur.-Fri-.-Sat. series vs. visiting (26) UC Irvine. All told, spanning 40 series over the weekend, nearly one-third of them (14) saw underdogs win the series – with the other 10 including (each 2-1):
• at (19) San Diego vs. (3) Oregon State
• at (36) Virginia Tech vs. (5) Florida State
• at (31) Arizona State vs. (7) UCLA
• at Loyola Marymount vs. (29) Gonzaga
• Radford at (30) Campbell
• at UNC Greensboro vs. (33) Georgia Southern
• TCU at (45) Texas Tech (finished Sun.)
• at Seton Hall vs. (46) Connecticut
• at Baylor vs. (47) Kansas State
• at Western Kentucky vs. (48) Louisiana-Lafayette
Radford (at Campbell) and TCU (at Texas Tech) were the only underdogs that won series vs. CB360 top-50 teams on the road.
The seven head-to-head series between CB360 top-50 teams that played out over the weekend included the aforementioned lower-ranked teams USD (vs. Oregon State), Virginia Tech (vs. FSU) and ASU (vs. UCLA) winning those big series in upset fashion. At the other end of the spectrum, two top-50 teams posted impressive sweeps vs. visiting top-50 opponents: (15) South Carolina vs. (27) Texas A&M, and (16) Louisville vs. (17) Notre Dame. The two other head-to-head series (both finishing on Sunday) saw (12) Arkansas take 2-of-3 from visiting (18) Mississippi State, while (8) Virginia won the first two games vs. (34) Miami.
Only 15 of the 40 series resulted in 3-0 sweeps, several of them mentioned above (by South Carolina, Louisville, UC Riverside, FAU and Troy). The 10 other series sweeps were turned in by: (2) LSU at Missouri … (4) Vanderbilt vs. Tennessee … (6) Fullerton vs. UOP … (10) Oregon vs. Washington … (22) Indiana at Iowa … (23) Cal Poly vs. UC Davis … (38) Austin Peay at Murray State … (40) Arizona vs. Utah … (41) UNC Wilmington at Old Dominion … and (44) UNLV vs. Air Force.
Only four top-50 teams posted series sweeps on the road: (2) LSU at Missouri, (22) Indiana at Iowa, (38) Austin Peay at Murray State, and (41) UNCW at Old Dominion.
Dartmouth (cb360 #42) played a pair of Ivy League doubleheaders over the weekend and met with mixed results – with a pair of losses at Penn followed by pair of wins at Columbia.
CB360 top-50 scoreboard pages are updated to include links for various live-coverage options, team game notes/weekly releases, and an assortment of postgame offerings (recaps from both teams, final stats in HTML & PDF format, photo galleries, video highlights, and postgame video/audio). Results for each game will include linescores (R-H-E), updated team won-loss records and status of each respective series (i.e. 1-1, sweep, etc.).
Also note that daily highlights from noteworthy CB360 top-50 results (plus other college baseball newsworthy items) are posted on the CB360updates Twitter feed (now followed by 9,000-plus college baseball fans).
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SUNDAY’S TOP-50 MATCHUPS (March 31, 2013)
(both teams in the CB360 Composite National Rankings)
upsets in italics
• (34) Miami (20-11/5-7 ACC) 4-5-1 … won at (8) Virginia (25-3/9-3) 3-9-1 (UVa won series, 2-1)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF | Miami Recap | UVa Recap
• at (12) Arkansas (21-8/6-3) 3 … def. (18) Mississippi State (23-8/3-6 SEC) 1 (ARK won series, 2-1)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF | ARK Recap (w/ posetgame video links) | Miss.-St. Recap | Photos | Video Highlights
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SUNDAY’S OTHER TOP-50 RESULTS (March 31, 2013)
(based on the CB360 Composite National Rankings)
upsets in italics
• (37) Clemson at (1) North Carolina 10 – susp. (UNC up 2-0 t3; resume Mon. at 2:45 ET)
• (2) LSU (26-2/8-1 SEC) 6-8-0 … won at Missouri (9-15/2-7) 5-6-3 (series sweep)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF | LSU Recap | Mizzou Recap | Photos
• at (4) Vanderbilt (25-4/8-1 SEC) 12-16-1 … def. Tennessee (13-13/3-6) 8-16-2 (series sweep)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF | VAN Recap (w/ video links) | TN Recap | Photos-1 | Photos-2
• at (9) Kentucky (21-6/6-3 SEC) 5-7-3 … def. Georgia (10-19/1-8) 0-4-1 (‘Cats won series, 2-1)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF | KY Recap | UGa Recap | Photos
• at Florida (13-16/4-5 SEC) 4-7-0 … def. (11) Mississippi (23-6/4-5) 0-4-3 (Gators won series, 2-1)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF | FL Recap | OleMiss Recap | Photos
• (19) Houston (23-5/5-0 CUSA) 2-3-0 … won at Memphis (14-13/1-4) 0-7-1 (7 inn.; resumed from Sat.; HOU clinched series , 2-0)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF | HOU Recap | MEM Recap
• at Memphis (15-13/2-4 CUSA) 1-7-1 … def. (19) Houston (23-6/5-1) 0-5-1 (7 inn.; HOU won series, 2-1)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF | MEM Recap | HOU Recap | Video Recap (for DH)
• at (21) North Carolina State (19-10/5-7 ACC) 9-8-1 … def. Maryland (15-12/4-8) 4-10-3 (NC-St. won series, 2-1)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF | NC-St. Recap | MD Recap | Video Highlights
• (22) Indiana (21-3/5-0 BigTen) 9-10-3 … won at Iowa (9-12/1-4) 6-10-3 (IU Has clinched series, 2-0)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF | IU Recap | Iowa Recap
• (22) Indiana (22-3/6-0 BigTen) 6-13-3 … won at Iowa (9-13/1-5) 4-8-1 (series sweep)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF | IU Recap | Iowa Recap | Photos
• at Florida Atlantic (19-9/7-2 SunBelt) 3-4-0 … def. (24) South Alabama (22-7/5-4) 0-6-3 (series sweep)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF | FAU Recap | So.-AL Recap | Photos | Postgame Video
• (41) UNC Wilmington (20-8/7-1 CAA) 8-12-0 … won at Old Dominion (13-13/4-8) 1-6-2 (series sweep)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF | UNCW Recap | ODU Recap
• (42) Dartmouth (13-3/1-2 Ivy) 3-7-0 … won at Columbia (9-13/2-1) 2-5-0 (7 inn.; DH gm-1; 2-game series)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF | DART Recap | COL Recap
• (42) Dartmouth (14-3/2-2 Ivy) 7-12-1 … won at Columbia (9-14/2-2) 4-7-0 (DH gm-2; 2-game series)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF | DART Recap | COL Recap
• at (45) Texas Tech (17-13/4-5 Big12) 8-10-2 … def. TCU (11-16/3-6) 7-7-1 (TCU won series, 2 -1)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF | TT Recap | TCU Recap | Quotes | Notes (TCU) | Photos | Video Recap
• at (49) UNLV (20-8/5-4 MWC) 8 … def. Air Force (8-18/2-5) 7 (series sweep)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF | UNLV Recap | AFA Recap
• at Troy (19-8/6-3 SunBelt) 5-7-0 … def. (50) Middle Tennessee State (16-14/3-6) 3-7-2 (series sweep)
… Final Stats: HTML & PDF | Troy Recap | MTSU Recap