Breakdown With Guest Analyst Mike Rooney… CollegeBaseball360 welcomes current ESPN college baseball analyst Mike Rooney as a guest contributor – lending his unique perspective in previewing the upcoming College World Series Championship series. … Mike Rooney graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1992 and played four years of baseball for the Irish...
The final update of the CB360 16-element Composite National Rankings (CNR) – to include all of the final polls and RPI - ended up being a fairly accurate indicator of how the NCAA Tournament played out. CB360′s earlier NCAA projection, based on the CNR and released early the morning of May 30, did not include...
Arkansas-Little Rock junior shortstop/leadoff batter Greg Garcia (Pflugerville, Texas) and Georgia Southern sophomore ace pitcher Chris Beck (Jefferson, Ga.) rose to the challenge during their respective conference tournaments, ultimately leading their teams to NCAA automatic bids in thrilling fashion to earn top billing on the CB360 week-15 Primetime Performers Honor Roll (for May 23-29, 2011), as selected by...
Here’s CB360′s updated NCAA Baseball Tournament bracket, formatted as a straight 64-team seeded draw (with #1 playing #64, etc.) … (updated morning of May 30, featuring the most-recent composite data from sources mentioned below) … We’ve all seen projections over the past few weeks as to how the 2011 NCAA Baseball Tournament LIKELY will shake...
What if the NCAA Baseball Tournament was a straight 64-team draw? (with #1 playing #64, etc.) … We’ve all seen projections over the past few weeks as to how the 2011 NCAA Baseball Tournament LIKELY will shake out … but what about a projection showing how the tournament SHOULD be formatted? – in an...
Fans can get updates from their favorite conference tournaments and NCAA sites (plus NCAA Tournament selection info.) College baseball fans can receive free text messages for select postseason games (conf. tournaments and NCAAs), along with information on the NCAA Tournament field/seedings/pairings announcement (May 30), via an easy sign-up process provided courtesy of College Baseball...
Rice sophomore first baseman J.T. Chargois (Sulphur, La.) and North Carolina senior ace pitcher Patrick Johnson (Conover, N.C.) delivered in the clutch during their teams’ final week of the regular season and lead the way on the CB360 week-14 Primetime Performers Honor Roll (for May 16-22, 2011), as selected by CollegeBaseball360.com. front-page photo courtesy of Rice...
The underdogs nearly swept all of Sunday’s games involving CB360 top-50 teams, winning 7-of-8 to complete a 4-day stretch that saw the unranked/lower-ranked teams win 44% of the top-50 games (50-63). Those raw statistics were indicative of a trend this past week, in which numerous top teams failed to seize the moment or close...
Saturday was an action-packed day throughout college baseball, with many teams wrapping up their regular seasons while numerous conference races were decided. It also was another good day for the underdogs, as the unranked/lower-ranked teams won 41% of the games involving CB360 top-50 teams (16-23). front-page photo courtesy of Arkansas Six teams – #15 Clemson,...
Action was wide-open on Friday – with many series playing game-2 – as the lower-ranked/unranked teams won 40% of the games involving CB360 top-50 teams (14-21). Four underdogs clinched their series upsets – most notably #9 North Carolina after its 2-1 victory at #1 Virginia. In the Atlantic Sun Conference, a pair of NCAA...