Midweek Top-50 Scoreboard (Feb. 17–20, 2014)

February 19, 2014
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Midweek college baseball games often are mismatches, but games held on Feb. 17-20 involving top-50 teams in the CB360 Top-50 resulted in upsets one-fourth of the time (12 of 46), including three of the week’s four head-to-head games between CB360 top-50 teams.

Opening-Week CB360 Top-50 Gameday Wrapup Pages: Feb. 16  |  Feb. 15  |  Feb. 14

The upsets included USC knocking off cb360 #1 Fullerton, 6-1, while Memphis won 6-4 at (5) Mississippi State. Four other CNR top-20 teams suffered mid-week upsets, three of them vs. fellow top-50 teams, as College of Charleston beat visiting (13) North Carolina, 3-1 in the series-deciding third game … (41) Houston won 3-0 at crosstown rival (15) Rice … (31) Florida Atlantic was a 5-2 winner at (17) Miami … and (50) New Mexico won 7-1 at (20) Arizona State.

Here were the six other midweek upsets in CB360 top-50 action:
• Portland 5-2 vs. (27) Kansas State 2  (at St. Mary’s)
• Utah Valley 5-2 at (29) Arizona 2
• at Georgia Southern 4-3 vs. (38) Georgia Tech 3
• at San Francisco 7-6 vs. (27) Kansas State 6
• at South Carolina-Upstate 8-6 vs. (35) Kentucky 6
• at UC Riverside 12-7 vs. Washington State 7

Results for all 46 midweek games in the CB360 top-50 are included below (we hope to add postgame links and photos later in the week).

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THURSDAY’s TOP-50 GAME  (Feb. 20, 2014)
(based on the CB360 Composite National Rankings)   upset in italics

Portland 5 … def. (27) Kansas State 2  (at St. Mary’s)
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WEDNESDAY’s TOP-50 MATCHUPS  (Feb. 19, 2014)
(both teams in the CB360 Composite National Rankings)   upsets in italics

• (41) Houston 3 … won at (15) Rice 0

• (31) Florida Atlantic 5 … won at (17) Miami 2

• at (18) Florida 8 … def. (48) North Florida 7

WEDNESDAY’s OTHER TOP-50 GAMES  (Feb. 19, 2014)
(based on the CB360 Composite National Rankings)   upsets in italics

• (4) Virginia 17 … won at William & Mary 2

Memphis 6 … won at (5) Mississippi State 4

(6) LSU 7 … won at Southeastern Louisiana 3

• at (7) Vanderbilt 5 … def. Lipscomb 1

• at (10) North Carolina State 15 … def. North Carolina AT&T 0

• at (14) Louisville 13 … def. Eastern Kentucky 1

• at (19) Oklahoma State 16 … def. Alcorn State 1

• (21) Louisiana-Lafayette 5 … won at Northwestern (La.) State 3

Utah Valley 5 … won at (29) Arizona 2

• at (30) Mississippi 6 … def. Tennessee-Martin 0

• at Georgia Southern 4 … def. (38) Georgia Tech 3

• at (40) Oklahoma 11 … def. Arkansas-Pine Bluff 0

• at (41) Mercer 10 … def. Florida A&M 2

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TUESDAY’s TOP-50 MATCHUP  (Feb. 18, 2014)
(both teams in the CB360 Composite National Rankings)   upsets in italics

• (50) New Mexico 7 … won at (20) Arizona State 1

TUESDAY’s OTHER TOP-50 GAMES  (Feb. 18, 2014)
(based on the CB360 Composite National Rankings)   upsets in italics

• at USC 6 … def. (1) Cal State Fullerton 1

• (3) Florida State 12 … won at Jacksonville 6

• at (9) South Carolina 4 … def. Presbyterian 0

• (10) North Carolina State 12 … won at Elon 7

• at (11) UCLA 7 … def. Cal State Northridge 1

• at (15) Rice 4 … def. Texas State 3

• at (18) Florida 5 … def. UCF 1

• at (19) Oklahoma State 17 … def. Alcorn State 4

• at (22) TCU 10 … def. Northern Colorado 3

• at (23) Texas A&M 12 … def. Stephen F. Austin 3

• at (26) Texas 10 … def. Texas A&M Corpus-Christi 0

• at San Francisco 7 … def. (27) Kansas State 6

• at (29) Arizona 8 … def. Utah Valley 7

• at (32) East Carolina 8 … def. Campbell 3

• at (40) Oklahoma 16 … def. Arkansas-Pine Bluff 6

• at (41) Mercer 12 … def. Florida A&M 4

• (41) Sam Houston State 18 … won at McNeese State 6

• at (45) UC Santa Barbara 5 … def. Cal State Bakersfield 1

• at (46) Wichita State 9 … def. Central Arkansas 6

• (47) Stanford 9 … won at San Jose State 3

• at (49) Western Carolina 8 … def. Winthrop 0
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MONDAY’s TOP-50 GAMES  (Feb. 17, 2014)
(based on the CB360 Composite National Rankings)   upsets in italics

• (2) Oregon State 7 … def. Univ. of the Pacific (UOP) 0  (Tempe, AZ)’

• (8) Oregon 10 … won at Hawaii 2  (4-gm series sweep)

• at (10) North Carolina State 11 … def. Canisius 4

• at College of Charleston 3 … def.  (13) North Carolina 1  (CofC won series, 2-1)

• at South Carolina-Upstate 8 … def. (35) Kentucky 6

• at (41) Sam Houston State 7 … def. Northern Colorado 1

• at UC Riverside 12 … def. (41) Washington State 7

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