Sunday’s College Baseball Top-50 Scoreboard & Weekend Wrapup

April 1, 2013
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After a tumultuous Saturday that produced two dozen upsets in action featuring top-50 teams from the CB360 Composite National Rankingsthings 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

Vickash Ramjit (Florida)

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.

Grant Heyman (Miami)

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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Randall Fant (Arkansas)

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

Alex Gunn (Memphis)

• 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

Jeremy Strawn (Florida Atlantic)

• 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

Shane McCain (Troy)

• 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

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