Gibson & Maddon Played College Baseball & Football… A pair of former college baseball players have received the highest honors a Major League Baseball manager can receive. Tampa Bay’s Joe Maddon and Arizona’s Kirk Gibson were named AL and NL Manager of the Year, respectively, on Wednesday. Maddon and Gibson not only share the...
19 Teams To Play 30 Games To Open Season… PARK RIDGE, Ill. – The Big East and Big Ten conferences, in conjunction with the St. Petersburg/ Clearwater Sports Commission, today released the schedule for the fourth annual Big Ten/Big East Baseball Challenge. The 2012 Challenge will feature 10 teams from the Big Ten and...
Conference Races, Upsets & A Hit Streak Highlights… The latest weekend of college baseball was, overall, light on upsets in the College Baseball 360 Top 50 Rankings. In fact, higher-ranked teams won 76% (29-9) of Sunday’s games involving the CB360 top-50. There were 40 series over the past few days involving CB360 top-50 teams,...
It’s the first weekend in May, and temperatures are climbing around the country-just as conference races and battles for at-large NCAA bids are heating up in college baseball as well. There will be a bit fewer Top 50 teams in action this weekend and next weekend, due to conference byes and teams taking final...
A big early April weekend of college baseball is in the books, so consider this your look back at some great action. The April 8-10 weekend saw some great baseball played around the country. Going back to April 7, it was also the debut of Thursday Night college baseball on ESPNU. Not only was...
This week Sean Stires and Chris Webb (from Buckeyestatebaseball.com) are talking about how things are shaping-up in the Midwest. They talk about this weekend’s key Big Ten series between Ohio State and Michigan State, as well as the future of OSU head coach Bob Todd, MAC leaders Toledo and Kent State and 2009 NCAA...
Passion Buckets Full Of Baseball And Final Four By Collegebaseball360.com Editor Sean Stires April is here, and my Passion Bucket is overflowing. For those who’ve never heard of a Passion Bucket, it’s a term that was coined by UCLA football coach Rick Neuheisel and made popular on the Dan Patrick Radio Show. It’s also...
A By The Numbers Look At The Latest Week Of 2010 20 & 16…Wins without any defeats by Arizona State and UCLA, respectively, to start the season. The Pac-10 teams are the only remaining undefeated Division 1 college baseball teams in the nation. ASU’s start is the best since the 1961 team opened at...
CollegeBaseball360.com – in conjunction with coaches and media-relations representatives from the 20 teams – has selected the all-tournament team for the 2010 Big Ten/BIG EAST Challenge (held Feb. 26-28, in the St. Petersburg, Fla., area). The selections include 11 first-teamers, 11 second-teamers and seven honorable mention. Selections were based on statistics during the three...
The BIG EAST kept rolling on Sunday, winning 7-of-10 games for the second straight day to claim the series by a 17-13 margin (after trailing 6 games to 1 heading into Friday night). BIG TEN/BIG EAST CHALLENGE – Day-3 Results (Feb. 28, 2010 … BIG EAST 7-3 margin for the day, won series 17-13)...