Coach, New Mexico Kicked Down Another Door… The New Mexico baseball team is the biggest story to come from the 2011 college baseball conference tournament weekend. Ray Birmingham‘s squad entered the Mountain West Conference Tournament 24 games under .500 and knowing their only chance to get into the NCAA Tournament was to win the...
Bubble Teams Not Fans Of Lobos, Tigers… Heading into this week’s Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament there was no reason to be thinking highly of No. 6 seed New Mexico. Someone forgot to tell head coach Ray Birmingham. The Lobos had lost seven straight games heading into the MWC Tourney, but the first four...
Both The Good & The Bad… We are roughly at the midway point in the 2011 college baseball season. Probably the biggest conversation coming into the season was the new bat standards and how they would affect the college game. It’s no surprise that offense has been down, while pitching numbers have been better...
By College Baseball 360 Editor Sean Stires We are just days away from a new year and that means we’re less than two months away from the start of the 2011 college baseball season. There was good and there was bad, and with that in mind here are 10 significant things we’ll take from...
Notes & Thoughts From Day 1 NCAA Action (updated) (note – this page now has a couple additional notes added around 9:45 a.m. eastern on Saturday – PL) … CLICK HERE for DAY-1 NCAA SCOREBOARD Minnesota was the only #4 seed that won on Friday (3-1 at Cal State Fullerton, see notes below), while...
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...
New Mexico OF Among Nation’s Top Hitters New Mexico finds itself in a place this week that it hasn’t been since before Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon: In the NCAA Baseball Tournament. The Lobos are in the tourney for the first time in 48 years, and a big reason why (aside from...
A Look At Some Movement From Opening Weekend Action It’s only one weekend, but there were plenty of statements made over the course of the season’s first three days. Granted, the trends are a little skewed right now, since everything is based on mostly head-to-head match-ups, but we’ll do this every week throughout the...
The Fifth-Year Senior Shined Bright In Wins Over Texas Max Willett led the high-powered New Mexico offense by batting .636 (7-11) with a triple and two doubles in two wins over then #1 Texas in Austin on opening weekend. The center fielder had the game-winning RBI in the top of the 9th inning to...
Lobos Get First Ever Win Over A #1 Team AUSTIN, Texas – The University of New Mexico Lobo baseball team down 5-2, scored four answered runs to defeat the top-ranked team in the nation Texas, 6-5. The New Mexico victory over Texas is the first in school history over a No. 1 ranked team....
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