A Look At Teams 1-10… With the start of the season rapidly approaching, here’s a look at some of the top teams in the country heading into the 2012 college baseball season. Our rankings are based on a “composite formula” that combines not only the existing weekly preseason national polls, but also other factors...
Three 2011 NCAA Teams Among Six-Team Field… The schedule has been set for the 2012 Houston College Classic. Six teams from three different conferences will participate in the event, which takes place March 2-4 at Minute Maid Park-the home of the Houston Astros. Arkansas and Tennessee from the SEC, Houston and Rice from Conference...
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...
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,...
College Baseball 360 contributor Stephen Francis checks-in with his weekly look at some of the top college baseball comings and goings from the state of Texas… By Stephen Francis There were three big series going on this weekend involving Texas teams, and one of them (Texas vs. Stanford) was already covered by fellow College...
A Look Around The Country At Saturday’s NCAA Action The hitting streak continues, but the season is over. Garrett Wittels extended his hitting streak to 56 games in Florida International’s 15-9 loss to Dartmouth. The loss eliminated FIU from the Coral Gables Regional. That means Wittels will begin the 2011 season needing hits in...
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...
FIU’s Wittels Heads This Week’s “By The Numbers”… 45…Game hitting streak by Florida International’s Garrett Wittels. The sophomore had at least one hit in each of FIU’s three wins over South Alabama over the weekend to tie Roger Schmuck of Arizona State (1971) for the third longest Division One hitting streak of all-time. 47…Game...
Texas Nipping On Virginia’s Heels… DURHAM, N.C.—Virginia extended its winning streak to 10 games with a perfect week that included a win against Coastal Carolina and a series sweep at Duke, continuing the Cavaliers’ run atop the Baseball America Top 25 rankings. The top three teams in the rankings stood pat after each posted...
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