The Florida Gators are a clear #1 in the initial College Baseball 360 Composite Top-50, a preliminary preseason look at the top teams in college baseball, based on the various national polls that already have been released. The formula for the current CB360 Composite National Rankings (CNR) includes five ingredients: preseason rankings by USA...
Last Games With Super Regional Berths On The Line… A minimum of seven and possibly nine regional games are set for Monday. Two games were resumed Monday afternoon after they were halted due to weather on Sunday. Florida State defeated Alabama 8-1 in the bottom of the 6th inning in Tallahassee, while defending national...
The Rundown Of “Decision Sunday”… Sunday saw its share of big upsets in NCAA Regional action around the country. After Oklahoma was eliminated in the Ft. Worth Regional on Saturday, fellow 2010 College World Series participant and 2011 Regional host TCU was sent packing. Meanwhile, Cal State Fullerton was eliminated by Illinois, UCLA made...
Friday, June 3 Action … Here’s a look at Friday’s first round of games in the 2011 NCAA Baseball Tournament, sorted by start time and also listed by Regional site. Check back to this page later in the day for CB360′s usual gameday wrapup page, with a summary along with an assortment of postgame...
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...
With many key series opening on Thursday throughout college baseball, the underdogs stood up in impressive fashion – including 7-of-9 series between CB360 top-50 teams that saw the lower-ranked teams emerge victorious. The underdogs overall won 42% (13-18) of Thursday’s games involving CB360 top-50 teams, as the #1, #3 and #4 teams all were...
Several NCAA Tournament bubble teams seized their opportunities on Tuesday, as Jacksonville pulled off the big upset at Florida (cb360 #4), 11-2, while #43 East Tennessee State similarly won at #10 Georgia Tech (8-6), #38 Central Florida posted an RPI-boosting win at #15 Stetson (7-6) and Florida Atlantic headed home from #20 Miami with...
Seven different underdogs – among them the Logan Odom-led USC (6-2 vs. #5 Arizona State) – completed series upsets on Sunday vs. CB360 top-50 teams, with those games including three head-to-head showdowns between top-50 squads: #4 Florida 6-3 in a 12-inning thriller at #2 Vanderbilt ... #10 Georgia Tech 3-0 vs. #9 North Carolina … and #46...