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...
Last week we took a quick spin around the college baseball world with some Twitter comments from players and coaches. With the season now less than two weeks away, we thought we would go with a few college baseball pictures that caught our eye on our Twitter feed. Don’t forget, you can follow us...
UConn Tabbed As Coaches’ Favorite… PROVIDENCE, R.I. – After winning a school-record 48 games and advancing to the NCAA Regionals for the first time since 1994, Connecticut has been chosen as the favorite to win the 2011 BIG EAST college baseball championship by the league’s 12 head coaches. The Huskies received nine of a...
A By The Numbers Look At Day 3 NCAA Play… 8…Winner take all Regional championship games that will take place on Monday (CLICK HERE to see our full Regional scoreboard with Monday’s match-ups. 8…Teams that went 3-0 in Regional play over the weekend to advance to Super Regionals: Arizona State, Florida, Florida State, Oklahoma,...
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...
Flies in the Ointment? … The upsets kept flowing on Thursday, based on the CB360 Composite National Rankings, as more than half of the games (14 of 26) involving CB360 top-50 teams ended up in upsets. Most notably, five of the CNR’s top-10 teams (#2-3-7-8-10) all were knocked off, while several other teams emerged...
2010 Conference Tournament Central Below on this page you will find information on all of this week’s college baseball conference tournaments. Links to brackets (in most cases each conference’s tournament central page) as well as All-Conference Teams are provided. Only five of 27 #1 seeds won their conference tournaments. America East Tournament (May 26-28)...
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...
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...