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  • Wednesday’s College Baseball Top-50 Schedule February 22, 2012
    Scores & More Presented By Baseballtips.com… Central Florida will be bidding for the upset Wednesday night when it plays at #1 Florida, one of 14 games on the docket involving top-50 teams in the CB360 Composite National Rankings (UCF is #30).  front page photo courtesy of UCF Scroll down for a listing of all 14 of Wednesday’s top-50 games, with results and postgame links to be added later in the day. Also note the new CB360 gameday dedicated Twitter feed, which includes tweets from top-50 teams that are competing in these key Wednesday games. _____________________________________________________ Take advantage of this exclusive offer from Baseballtips.com – your first choice for baseball training aids and baseball field equipment. With 34 pitching machines & 14 batting cages, field tarps, foul poles, custom netting, bleachers, windscreens, drag mats, and MUCH MORE! Now through March 5th, you’ll save $20 off all purchases of $99 or more when you enter the coupon code CB360. _______________________________________________________________ // WEDNESDAY’S TOP MATCHUP  (Feb. 22, 2012) … based on the CB360 Composite National Rankings 7 ET – #30 Central Florida at #1 Florida ___________________ WEDNESDAY’S OTHER TOP-50 GAMES  (Feb. 22, 2012) … based on the CB360 Composite National Rankings  3 ET – Eastern Kentucky at #23 Louisville William & [...]
    Pete LaFleur
  • College Baseball 360 Composite Top-50 Feb.22 February 22, 2012
    Presented By Baseballtips.com… After the opening weekend of the 2012 college baseball season, there was little significant movement in the CB360 top-50, based on its Composite National Rankings (CNR) formula. In fact, two of the national polls/rankings do not even update their rankings after the opening week (see below; note that all polls used in the CNR take into account games played through Feb. 19). The formula for the current CB360 Composite National Rankings (CNR) now includes seven ingredients: rankings by USA Today/ESPN (coaches), NCBWA (writers), Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball magazine, Perfect Game and College Baseball Lineup, along with preseason projected season strength-of-schedule (from Boyd’s World; used for small bonus in formula). Five top-10 teams (four from the SEC) retained their same CNR position from the preseason top-50: #1 Florida, #2 South Carolina, #3 Stanford, #9 Georgia Tech and #10 LSU. Three other five top-10 teams moved up  a spot – current #4 Texas A&M, #5 Rice and #7 Arkansas – while North Carolina slipped from #4 to #6 and Texas moved back a position to #8. Scroll down for complete listing of the current CB360 top-50. Also see below for listing of teams that have made the biggest jumps and drops, plus newcomers and departed teams. CB360 [...]
    Pete LaFleur
  • Pre-Home Opener Vanderbilt Video Interviews February 22, 2012
    Head Coach Tim Corbin & Vandy Players… Vanderbilt hasn’t played a home game since beating Oregon State in last year’s Super Regional to advance to the program’s first ever College World Series. Coming-off being swept at Stanford over opening weekend, head coach Tim Corbin’s Commodores are a vastly different looking team than last year’s CWS squad. In this video (courtesy VUCommodores.com) Corbin, and players Connor Harrell and Tony Kemp discuss last weekend’s series as well as being back home.
    Sean Stires
  • College Baseball 360 Primetime Performers #1 February 21, 2012
    Boston College senior shortstop Anthony Melchonda (Braintree, Mass.) and Stanford freshman lefthander John Hochstatter (Danville, Calif.) rose to the challenge during the opening week of the 2012 college baseball season and headline the first CB360 Primetime Performers Weekly Honor Roll, as presented by CollegeBaseball360.com. Melchonda and Hockstatter – who are joined by 14 others on the Primetime Honor Roll – are the top honorees among this group, as the CB360 Primetime Player of the Week and Pitcher of the Week. The Primetime Performer awards program (also utilized on affiliate sites CollegeSports360.com, CollegeSoccer360.com and CollegeFencing360.com) seeks to recognize players based on more than simple raw stats, instead taking into account quality of opponent, contribution to team success and various situational factors (such as clutch play, all-around performance, leadership, adversity overcome, etc.). The opening-week Primetime Performer honorees include three freshman catchers: Pepperdine’s James Grandpre (Lancaster, Calif.), Xavier’s Derek Hasenbeck (Poway, Calif.) and USC versatile newcomer Garrett Stubbs (Del Mar, Calif.), who also started in the outfield (LF/CF) and even played some at third  base during the first week of the 2012 season. Two senior shortstops – Cal Poly’s Mike Miller (Concord, Calif.), along with Melchionda – also are among the 16 honorees, as are Central Michigan senior catcher [...]
    Pete LaFleur
  • Penn Baseball Video February 21, 2012
    Quakers Preparing For 2012 Season… While most DI teams around the country opened their seasons last weekend, Penn and other Ivy League schools are still eagerly awaiting their season-openers. Penn opens play March 2 at Stetson. We recently received this video via Twitter (@PennBaseball), showing Penn players pounding the streets of Philadelphia and working out in their on campus bubble. The video was directed by Jeremy Maas ’11 and Produced by Marco Menna in conjunction with Penn Athletics.
    Sean Stires
  • Tuesday’s College Baseball Top-50 Scoreboard & Wrapup February 21, 2012
    Scores & More Presented By Baseballtips.com… Upsets were brewing Tuesday in the Lone Star State, as two pitchers from Baylor (CB360 preseason #29) combined to take a no-hitter late into the 8th en route to a 7-1 win over #13 TCU (the bid was broken-up with two outs in the 8th), while Texas-Arlington pulled off a 7-5 win at #7 Texas. Elsewhere in the state, #5 Texas A&M had to rally for a 4-3 win over Stephen F. Austin and #6 Rice survived a 7-5 game vs. visiting New Mexico State. These games were among 15 on Tuesday’s slate that involved top-50 teams, with the higher-ranked teams (based on the CB360 preseason top-50 Composite National Rankings) going 12-3.  front page photo courtesy of Baylor The night’s other relative upset saw Oklahoma State (CB360 preseason #45) earn its first win of the season, 9-7 vs. #37 Dallas Baptist. In addition to the wins by Baylor and OK State, there was one other matchup between CB360 preseason top-50 teams, as #12 Florida State topped #39 Jacksonville (16-9). Scroll down for a listing of all 15 of Tuesday’s top-50 results, including postgame links. Also note the new CB360 gameday dedicated Twitter feed, which includes tweets from top-50 teams that were competing in these key Tuesday games. There were three games on [...]
    Pete LaFleur
  • NCBWA College Baseball Poll Feb. 20 February 20, 2012
    Gators Remain No. 1 After Opening Weekend… DALLAS, Texas – For the 15th consecutive year, the NCBWA Top 30 poll representing 291 Division I baseball-playing schools is chosen by 42 national selectors from the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. To date, Florida has been No. 1 for both ’12 surveys, and 10 different conferences have been represented (eight in this week’s tallies) of the 30 DI circuits having automatic bids to NCAA Regionals. The polls will continue through June 29, 2012, at the conclusion of the 2012 NCAA World Series in Omaha. 1 Florida Southeastern 2-1 1 2 South Carolina SEC 3-0 2 3 Stanford Pacific-12 3-0 4 4 Texas A&M Big 12 3-0 5 5 Arkansas SEC 3-0 6 6 North Carolina Atlantic Coast 2-1 3 7 Rice Conference USA 3-0 8 8 Florida State ACC 3-0 10 9 Texas Big 12 2-1 7 10 LSU SEC 3-0 12 11 Georgia Tech ACC 3-1 9 12 Arizona State Pac-12 3-0 15 13 Miami (Fla.) ACC 3-0 16 14 TCU Mountain West 1-1 13 15 Clemson ACC 2-1 17 16 Vanderbilt SEC 0-3 11 17 Georgia SEC 3-0 21 18 Arizona Pac-12 2-1 18 19 Cal State Fullerton Big West [...]
    Sean Stires
  • NCBWA DII College Baseball Poll Feb. 14 February 20, 2012
    TAMPA TOPS NCBWA DIVISION II POLL SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. (NCBWA) – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) continues its tradition of NCAA Division II polls with its 2012 weekly surveys. Weekly polls will continue each Tuesday throughout the season. NCBWA DIVISION II POLL (FEB. 14) Rk. School [1st place] Record Pts. Pvs. 1. Tampa, Fla. [9] 6-0 361 t6 2. Central Missouri [4] 0-0 352 3 3. Grand Valley State, Mich. 0-0 322 4 4. UNC Pembroke [2] 8-0 320 17 5. St. Cloud State, Minn. 4-0 291 8 6. Cal Poly Pomona 7-0 276 24 7. Southern Connecticut State 0-0 266 t6 8. St. Mary’s, Texas 6-1 257 11 9. West Florida 5-1 253 10 10. Columbus State, Ga. 6-0 251 - 11. Mercyhurst, Pa. 3-0 245 16 12. Mount Olive, N.C. 5-1 183 9 13. North Alabama 5-1 179 20 14. Emporia State, Kan. 0-0 164 13 15. Franklin Pierce, N.H. 0-0 142 15 16. Minnesota State 0-0 137 14 17. Millersville, Pa. 3-1 136 5 18. Western Oregon 7-2 126 - 19. Barry, Fla. 3-1 120 2 20. Cal State Chico 4-0 73 - 21. Missouri S&T 0-0 67 23 22. Tusculum, Tenn. 6-0 65 - [...]
    Sean Stires
  • DI Baseball Week One Attendance Report February 20, 2012
    LSU Tops, Other SEC Schools Right Behind… The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) has released its first DI baseball national attendance report of the 2012 season. LSU leads the way, after 31,598 fans flocked to Alex Box Stadium to see the Tigers play Air Force twice and Alcorn State as well over the weekend. Fellow SEC schools South Carolina (2nd), Arkansas (3rd), Mississippi State (5th), and Florida (8th) are in the top 10 as well. The top 34 weekend attendances follow: School  Avg. Att. – Total Att. – Number of Games 1. LSU 10,532 – 31,598 – 3 2. South Carolina 7,751 – 23,253 – 3 3. Arkansas 6,948 – 20,845 – 3 4. Texas 6,225 – 18,677 – 3 5. Mississippi State 6,073 – 12,147 – 2 6. Clemson 5,776 – 11,552 – 2 7. TCU 5,207 – 10,414 – 2 8. Florida 4,796 – 14,389 – 3 9. Florida State 4,644 – 13,933 – 3 10. Texas A&M 4,513 – 13,540 – 3 11. Hawaii 4,247 – 12,743 – 3 12. Alabama 3,660 – 10,980 – 3 13. Southern Miss 3,548 – 7,097 – 2 14. Rice 3,205 – 9,615 – 3 15. East Carolina 3,033 – [...]
    Sean Stires
  • Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Feb. 20 Poll February 20, 2012
    Florida Holds Top Spot, Minor Shuffling As Well… TUCSON, Ariz. — The University of Florida (2-1) has been ranked No. 1 in the first regular-season NCAA Division I baseball poll of 2012 by Collegiate Baseball newspaper. The Gators, ranked No. 1 in the pre-season Collegiate Baseball poll last December, kicked off the season by beating Cal. St. Fullerton two of three games in Gainesville, Fla. Florida won the first two contests, 7-3 and 5-2 before the Titans captured the final game of the series, 8-5 in a matchup of top 20 teams. Florida only committed one error over the three games. Two-time defending national champion South Carolina, ranked second, began the season 3-0 as did No. 3 Stanford, No. 4 Texas A&M and No. 5 Rice. In fact, 16 teams in the top 30 this week began the season with perfect 3-0 records. Poll Notes: South Carolina’s pitching staff picked up where it left off last season during its 3-game sweep of VMI. The Gamecocks utilized 11 pitchers. They combined for 36 strikeouts and just four walks over 27 innings as the staff registered a 1.33 ERA. Stanford was impressive in its 3-game sweep of Vanderbilt. The Cardinal won 8-3, [...]
    Sean Stires

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