Mother Nature – who has been a bit of an ice queen as a of late, by the way – continues to be the MVP of the college baseball season, as weather cancellations have led to cancellations over the past few days throughout the east and south.
Paced by a 5-for-5 game from Andrew Calica (pictured), UC Santa Barbara moved to 7–1 with a quality midweek win at Pepperdine on Feb. 24 (photo courtesy UCSB).
At least 32 games across college baseball were cancelled or postponed on Tuesday, Feb. 24 – most notably, games at: Baylor, Clemson, Dallas Baptist, Maryland, North Carolina, UNC Wilmington, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, TCU, Virginia. There were at least 22 more games called off for Feb. 25, including at Arkansas State, College of Charleston , Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, LSU, Maryland, Mississippi and UNC. … And Thursday’s cancellations included: at Arkansas and Texas Tech.
Here are the games CB360 will be tracking on Feb. 23–26 – based on the week-2 CB360 Top-50 Composite National Rankings (to be updated later this week) … this page to be updated throughout each day, with notable results and details also to be found on Twitter via the @CB360updates feed.
One of the most noteworthy midweek matchups saw UC Santa Barbara (cb360 #21 last week) win 6–4 at [48] Pepperdine, with the Gauchos improving to 7–1 (including 4-game sweep of BYU and winning 2-of-3 vs. Kentucky).
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– TOP THURSDAY GAMES (Feb. 26, 2015)
(based on week-2 CB360 Composite National Rankings Top-50, to be updated later this week)
• at [5] LSU won 9–7 vs. Southeastern Louisiana (Tigers now #7)
• Sacramento State at [9] Texas Tech – ppd (also no game Fri.; now Sat. DH at 2 CT, Sun. at 11:30)
• [17] Arizona State won 5–4 vs. Cal State Bakersfield (in Phoenix)
• Hawaii won 15–8 at [48] Pepperdine (Waves are out of top-50 for week-3)
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– TOP WEDNESDAY GAMES (Feb. 25, 2015)
(based on week-2 CB360 Composite National Rankings Top-50, to be updated later this week)
• at [1] Vanderbilt won 10–6 vs. Western Kentucky (Vandy now #3)
• at [3] TCU won 1–0 vs. Texas Southern (Frogs now #2 for week-3)
• Southeastern Louisiana at [5] LSU – ppd to 2/26 (at LSU; 6:30 CT)
• at Texas State won 7–6 vs. [7] Houston (Cougs now #6)
• at [8] Texas won 5–4 vs. Texas-Pan American (UTPA) (‘Horns now #9)
• at [9] Texas Tech won 4–3 vs. Sacramento State (TT( now #8)
• at [10] Louisville won 5–2 vs. Eastern Kentucky (Cards now #20)
• at [11] Miami won 5–2 vs. Barry (non-DI game) (‘Canes now #14)
• at [13] Oklahoma State won 7–2 vs. Missouri State (OK St. now #18)
• Winthrop at [14] North Carolina – postponed (possible makeup TBA)
• at [15] Rice won 13–1 vs. Stephen F. Austin (Owls now #11)
• VCU at [20] Maryland – canc. (makeup TBA)
• [23] Kennesaw State at Georgia (UGa could be in week-3 CB360 Top-50) – ppd to 3/25 (at UGa; 5 ET)
• at [24] Texas A&M won 7–0 vs. Incarnate Word
• [33] Central Florida (UCF) won 18–8 at Bethune-Cookman (UCF now#19)
• [41] Tennessee won 4–1 at Belmont (Vols now #45)
• at [43] Baylor won 8–4 vs. Northwestern (La.) State (Bears now #34)
• at [44] Clemson won 11–5 vs. Wofford (first loss for Bulldogs; Tigers now #48)
• at [47] Washington won 6–0 vs. Portland (UW has fallen out of top-50 for week-3)
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– TOP TUESDAY GAMES (Feb. 24, 2015)
(based on week-2 CB360 Composite National Rankings Top-50, to be updated later this week)
• at [1] Vanderbilt won 16–3 vs. Tennessee-Martin (Vandy now #3)
• [4] Florida won 10–8 at Florida Atlantic (FAU has entered week-3 CNF at #36)
• at [6] UCLA won 1–0 vs. Long Beach State (Bruins now #5)
• at [10] Louisville won 10–1 vs. Butler (Cards now #20)
• at [16] Florida State won 10–7 vs. Jacksonville (FSU now #22)
• at [18] Oregon won 8–2 vs. Portland (Ducks now #15)
• at [19] Mississippi State won 10–2 vs. Alcorn State (‘Dogs now #16)
• [21] UC Santa Barbara won 6–4 at [48] Pepperdine (UCSB now #17)
• at [24] Texas A&M won 4–1 vs. Houston Baptist
• at [26] Stanford won 6–5 vs. Nevada (first loss for ‘Pack)
(Cardinal have dropped to #44; ‘Pack has entered CNR at #40 for week-3)
• at [28] Mississippi win 2–1 vs. Arkansas State (Rebs now #26)
• at [29] Alabama swept DH from Savannah State (7–2 and 4–2)
(Tide now are #31 in the week-3 CNR)
• at Auburn won 7–1 vs. [34] Georgia Tech (GT has moved up to #32)
• at [37] Cal Poly won 13–2 vs. Cal State Bakersfield
(CP has dropped out of the top-50 for week-3)
• McNeese State won 5–4 at [45] Louisiana (Lafayette) (17 inn.)
(ULL has dropped out of the top-50 for week-3)
• at [46] Sam Houston State won 10–3 vs. Prairie View A&M
(SDSU has dropped out of the top-50 for week-3)
• USC won 3–2 at [50] Fresno State (10 inn.) (Trojans now 9–0)
(USC has cracked the top-50 for week-3, at #37; Fresno is out of the top-50)
… Additional results from teams in the preseason CB360 Top-50 or newcomers to the week–3 top-50 teams:
• at Georgia won 3–0 vs. Presbyterian (UGa is #29 in the week-3 CNR)
• Nebraska-Omaha won 6–4 at Wichita State (preseason #43)
• at Cal State Northridge won 10–1 vs. Grand Canyon (first loss for GCU)
(GCU entered the top-50 for week-3, at #41)
• at San Diego State won 5–4 vs. San Diego (13 inn.) … USD was preseason #48
(SDSU has cracked the top-50 for week-3, at #33)
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– TOP MONDAY GAME (Feb. 23, 2015)
(based on week-2 CB360 Composite National Rankings Top-50, to be updated later this week)
• at [40] UNLV won 11–1 vs. Univ. of the Pacific (swept 4-gm series)
(Rebels moved up to 38th in the week-3 CNR)