Noteworthy college baseball news and events
This past weekend’s noteworthy winners in games involving top-50 teams from the CB360 Composite National Rankings included four that swept series vs. fellow top-50 teams, most notably (36) Mercer taking three games from visiting (24) Florida Gulf Coast in an Atlantic Sun showdown series. That was one of 15 series won by the underdogs (six of them sweeps)...
Midweek action during the second week of April produced several noteworthy head-to-head matchups involving top-50 teams from the CB360 Composite National Rankings, and there continued to be a stream of upsets within the top-50. All told, the week’s 48 games in the top-50 included seven head-to-head matchups and 12 upsets. front-page photo courtesy of Radford Tuesday’s typically...
Here’s a quick look at the most recent update to the CB360 Composite National Rankings (CNR), featuring eight elements in the CNR formula: five polls/rankings – coaches, writers, Baseball America top-25 plus NCAA projection, Collegiate Baseball magazine and Perfect Game top-25 plus teams to watch & NCAA projection (plus official NCAA RPI, Warren Nolan RPI and Boyds World...
College baseball’s penchant for upsets was on full display over the past weekend, as action involving top-50 teams in the CB360 Composite National Rankings produced 17 upsets on three successive days (April 5-7). When all the dust had settled, 15 “underdogs” (unranked/lower-ranked) had won the 40 series involving top-50 teams and only nine “favorites” completed sweeps among those 40 series,...
Midweek action involving top-50 teams in the CB360 Composite National Rankings produced only six upsets among 44 games (favorites won at an 86% clip) spanning the first four days of April. Most notably, (37) Clemson ended its series at top-ranked North Carolina with a 5-4, 11-inning win, while (32) Mercer won 10-1 vs. visiting (10) Georgia Tech and...
CB360′s exclusive Composite National Rankings (CNR) have expanded to include eight elements in the current format – with the usual five rankings/polls (coaches, writers, Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball & Perfect Game) along with three mathematical-based listings: official NCAA RPI, WarrenNolan.com RPI, and the Iterative Strength Ratings from BoydsWorld.com (links to all included at the...
DALLAS – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 16th year with its 2013 weekly surveys. Polls will be circulated from Feb. 18-June 27 (weekly through June 11) following the 67th annual NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb., at TD Ameritade Park. North Carolina (seven...
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...
One of the most upset-filled days in the six-year history of the CB360 Composite National Rankings played out on Saturday, as nearly half of the 51 results (24, or 47%) saw lower-ranked/unranked teams knock off top-50 squads in upset fashion. Eight of the two-dozen upsets victims were CB360 top-20 squads: (3) Oregon State, (5) Florida State, (9)...
Most of the top-50 teams from the CB360 Composite National Rankings were in action on Friday, including several teams that had opened their respective series on Thursday. Higher-raked teams went 27-10 (73%) on Friday, with the more noteworthy upsets including (36) Virginia Tech 3-2 over visiting (5) Florida State, and (31) Arizona State clinching its home series vs....
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