Rivals Both Headed To Regionals… By CB360 Contributor Jack Blanchat The final games of the Pac-10 season for the Cal Bears and the Stanford Cardinal showed two teams that appear to be heading in opposite directions, even though both are headed for the postseason once again. Stanford once again utilized its great pitching to...
Which Teams Will Survive?? It’s Sunday morning, and there’s work to be done for college baseball teams across the nation hoping to gain entrance into the 2011 NCAA baseball tournament. The problem is, the work has already been done for most of those teams and their fate is in the hands of the NCAA...
A Few Pre-NCAA Regional Thoughts By Collegebaseball360.com Editor Sean Stires 1. There’s been a lot of talk this week about Virginia slipping to the #5 national seed, with Arizona State, Texas, Florida, and Coastal Carolina filling the respective top seeds in front of the Cavaliers. I understand why Virginia fans would be upset with...
The Last Notebook Of The Regular Season… 48…Game hitting streak by Florida International shortstop Garrett Wittels. The sophomore has the second-longest hitting streak in Division One history after hitting safely in Saturday’s regular season finale vs. rival Florida Atlantic. Former Oklahoma State and MLB star Robin Ventura owns the all-time record with hits in...
A Look At The Selection Process & Tournament Format We’re almost there. I know it sounds cliche, but where has the college baseball season gone? It seems like I was just bouncing around from Mississippi to Florida and Texas over the opening weeks of 2010, and now here we are. The last week of...
30 conference champions earn automatic berths into the field of 64 in the 2010 NCAA Division One baseball tournament. We will list them as they secure their bids. CLICK HERE to see the NCAA selection handbook, which includes at-large selection criteria and more information. NCAA Tournament Selection Timeline America East-Stony Brook ACC: Florida State...
A By The Numbers Look At Week 12 Action… 42…Game hitting streak by Florida International’s Garrett Wittels, who singled in the eighth inning of Sunday’s 5-4 loss to Arkansas State. He’s now in fourth place in Division One history with Chuck Abbott of Austin Peay, who hit safely in 42 straight games in 1996....
Big Pitching Performances Headline The Week 2…Wins by Oregon over #2 UCLA to give the Ducks their second Pac 10 series win of the season (they took two games at Stanford last week). 0…Pac 10 series wins by Oregon last year. The Ducks are now 6-4 vs. ranked teams in 2010. 1…Loss this season...
Notes On Pac-10, Big West, WCC, WAC Teams & More… If you follow Collegebaseball360.com you know that we post a weekly Notebook every Monday throughout the college baseball season. We try to hit as many happenings from across the nation as we can, but it’s tough to get everything. With that in mind, we...
Bruins Keep Rolling With Big Pitching & Hitting UCLA is off to the best start in program history. The Bruins are 13-0 heading into this weekend’s 3-game series vs. Oral Roberts. Most thought the Bruins would have a good pitching staff, with guys like sophomores Gerrit Cole and Trevor Bauer on the hill. However,...