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College Baseball NCAA Tournament Scoreboard

June 1, 2012
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College Baseball NCAA Tournament Scoreboard

Day One: 6/1/12… Here’s a quick rundown of Friday’s 32 opening-day games in the 2012 NCAA Baseball Championship (more here & via cb360updates on Twitter, throughout the day). front-page photo courtesy of Purdue CLICK HERE for signup page for FREE NCAA baseball & softball texts (pick what you want to receive; courtesy CB360 &...

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College Baseball Postseason Notebook #1

June 1, 2012
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A Look Back & Look Ahead… With opening day of the NCAA baseball tournament upon us, here’s a quick look back at the recently-completed first week of the 2012 college baseball postseason (yes, the term “postseason” includes conference tournaments … it’s not exclusive to the NCAAs) and a look ahead to the next few...

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Updated CB360 “Perfect World” NCAA Tournament (seeded 1-64)

May 28, 2012
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(updated) … What if the NCAA Baseball Championship was a pure tournament, seeded 1-64 with geography playing no factor in the matchups? Based on the newly-updated CB360 Composite National Rankings (CNR, which includes an assortment of 15 ingredients in the formula: polls, rankings, RPI-type calculations and NCAA-field projections, plus a bonus/penalty for record over...

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Sunday’s College Baseball Scoreboard (May 27, 2012)

May 27, 2012
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One more day … There are 17 games on Sunday that will have a bearing on tomorrow’s NCAA tournament selections – with 11 conference tournament finals, plus four games in the Pac-12, one in the WCC and one in the Big West.  front-page photo courtesy of Georgia Tech All three of the west-coast conferences...

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Saturday’s College Baseball Scoreboard & Wrapup (5/26/12)

May 26, 2012
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Ten teams won their conference tournaments on Saturday – most notably 8th-seeded Creighton, which completed a 4-0 run through the Missouri Valley Conference tourney by beating fellow upstart (6) Southern Illinois, 8-6. Saturday’s nine other champions included seven top seeds, plus 4-seed Texas-Arlington in the Southland and (2) Dayton from the Atlantic-10. For the first...

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Friday’s College Baseball Scoreboard & Wrapup (5/25/12)

May 26, 2012
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Friday had some appearance of more “normalcy” … but at the end of the day, it was more of the same upheavel from the previous couple days – as conference tournament seeding remained essentially a 50-50 proposition, with lower seeds winning nearly half of the games  (28-30; 48%) among 21 conference tournaments that were...

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Thursday’s College Baseball Scoreboard & Wrapup (5/24/12)

May 24, 2012
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In season-long tracking of our CB360 Composite National Rankings (top-50), we saw a steady upset rate around 1/3rd of the games and that trend certainly has continued this week during conference tournament action. Wednesday’s action saw lower seeds win at a 49% clip (29-30) and on Thursday the lower seeds actually won more often...

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College Baseball Primetime Performers of the Day (May 23)

May 24, 2012
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College Baseball Primetime Performers of the Day (May 23)

Belmont junior first baseman Judah Akers (Cookeville, Tenn.) and Missouri sophomore lefthander Ron Zastryzny(Corpus Christi, Texas) headline the CB360 postseason Primetime Performers of the Day for Wed., May 23. They are joined by eight others in comprising the CB360 Primetime Performers Daily Honor Roll, with Akers the Cb360 Primetime Player of the Day and Zastryzny  the Primetime...

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Wednesday’s College Baseball Scoreboard & Wrapup (5/23/12)

May 24, 2012
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Lower seeds made their presence felt in a big way on Wednesday, winning roughly half (29 of 59) of the day’s conference tournament games, from 19 conferences that were competing in quest of an NCAA automatic bid. In fact, each of those conferences featured at least one win by a lower-seeded team. Two games were...

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College Baseball Primetime Performers of the Day (May 22)

May 23, 2012
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College Baseball Primetime Performers of the Day (May 22)

CB360 has expanded its honor-roll awards feature to recognize postseason Primetime Performers of the Day, starting with Tuesday, May 22. Six total players have been selected for their contributions on Tuesday in games with NCAA tournament implications. The top honorees from that group include: Creighton junior lefthander Ty Blach (Centennial, Colo.) … Army senior catcher...

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