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 &...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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