The College Baseball Blog continues our weekly countdown to the release of the 2010 NCAA Regional Brackets. The brackets are done as if the NCAA Tournament was set to begin today. We used Boyd’s World RPI which was updated through games on Wednesday. You can check out the full bracket below which is our best estimate if the tournament started today. Read the rest of this entry »
CBB Column: 2010 NCAA Regional Projections (May 20th)
– May 20, 2010Posted in: 2010 CWS, 2010 NCAA Tourney, CBD Column
The SEC enters the final week of action highlighted by an SEC Eastern Division showdown between Florida and South Carolina. Both schools are tied for the division lead with a 20-7 SEC record. The only school that could catch Florida in the standings is Auburn who would need to sweep Ole Miss and have the Gators sweep South Carolina. I do not know who wins the tiebreaker between Florida and Auburn as both teams did not face off but Auburn loses the tiebreaker to South Carolina. The other teams in action this weekend sees Alabama visiting Tennessee, Arkansas at Vanderbilt, Mississippi State at LSU, and Kentucky at Georgia. 
The ACC enters the final weekend of the season with a couple of important weekend matchups. The biggest series of the weekend is between #2 ranked Virginia and #13 ranked Miami in Coral Gables as both schools are battling with Georgia Tech for the Coastal Division title. Georgia Tech will head to Boston College to finish out the Yellow Jackets season. The Florida State Seminoles and Clemson Tigers will face off with FSU needing one victory to clinch the Atlantic Division title as the Tigers are three games back. The other key series sees the #17 ranked Virginia Tech Hokies heading down to Chapel Hill to take on the #26 ranked North Carolina Tar Heels. If UNC loses the series, it will likely be on the outside looking in for the NCAA Tournament. The other two series see NC State hosting Duke and Maryland heading to Wake Forest. 
The second coaching change in the Mountain West conference has come today with the announcement that UNLV head coach Buddy Gouldsmith will not have his contract renewed for next season. Goulsmith has been the Rebels head coach since the 2004 season as he has a career record of 200-211 entering into action on Tuesday night. According to the press release, UNLV will conduct a national search for a new coach. It should be interesting to see who gets this position in the coming months as the expectations in the Mountain West Conference has risen with the success of TCU. You can check out the full press release below. 
MORGANTOWN, W.Va - The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) released the Pro-Line Athletic National Player of the Week awards for the period ending May 16, today. UC Riverside junior outfielder Tony Nix was named National Hitter of the Week, while Old Dominion junior right-hander C.J. Huyett was named National Pitcher of the Week. The NCBWA Board reviews candidates from each Division I Conference each week and names winners each Tuesday throughout the season. 
