Archive for May, 2011

College Baseball Daily 2011 All-Big 12 Team/All-Freshman Team

– May 24, 2011Posted in: Big 12, CBD Column

With the end of the Big 12 regular season upon us, its time to look at the individual players that stood out at their respective positions. Some of the top players aren’t a surprise, but there are a few notable subtractions that would’ve been hard predictions before the season began, notably at third base where Nebraska junior Cody Asche held steady at the end to pass a hard-slumping Oklahoma junior Garrett Buechele, a preseason favorite for Player of the Year honors.

Texas A&M OF Tyler Naquin finished the season strong, claiming Player of the Year honors. The sophomore led the league in average, hits, and runs scored, while finishing among the top 10 in five other categories. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Baylor, Big 12, CBD Column, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas AM, Texas Tech

Morning Links (May 24th)

Brian Foley

– May 24, 2011Posted in: Big 12, Big East, CAA, Conference USA, Mountain West, Southern Conference, WAC

Here are your Morning Links for May 24th from the College Baseball World. If you know of a good article that we might have missed drop us a line by clicking here. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Big 12, Big East, CAA, Charleston Southern, Conference USA, Mountain West, New Mexico State, Southern Conference, Southern Miss, TCU, Texas, UNC-Wilmington, WAC, West Virginia

Players of the Week (May 24th)

Brian Foley

– May 24, 2011Posted in: Players of the Week

Here is a full listing of all Conference Players of the Week. Read the rest of this entry »

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2011 Conference USA Tournament Preview

Brian Foley

– May 24, 2011Posted in: 2011 Conference Tourney, Conference USA

By: John Lockwood

#17 Rice and #20 Southern Miss have finished the 2011 regular season as CUSA co-champions—the first time in Conference USA’s 16 year history that two teams will share the regular season title. With their series victory of the Golden Eagles this past weekend, the Rice Owls lengthened their streak of consecutive titles to 16 years, and earned the No.1 seed in this week’s CUSA Championship Tournament to be played in Pearl, MS. While the odds of Rice and Southern Miss (the No. 2 seed) receiving at-large bids to the NCAA tournament are high, for the other six teams in the field, a tournament championship is the only guarantee they’ll have for extending their season. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2011 Conference USA Tournament, Conference USA, East Carolina, Houston, Memphis, Rice, Southern Miss, Tulane, UAB, UCF

NCBWA May 23 Division I Poll

Donald J. Boyles

– May 23, 2011Posted in: 2011 Polls, NCBWA

FROM CBD NEWS SOURCE

DALLAS – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA Division I polls for the 14th year with its 2011 weekly surveys. Polls will be circulated from Feb. 21-June 28 following the 65th annual NCAA World Series in Omaha, Neb., at the new TD Ameritade Stadium.

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Tags: 2011 Polls, NCBWA

Tennessee Fires Todd Raleigh

Brian Foley

– May 23, 2011Posted in: New Coach, SEC

The beginning of a work week brought a long time SEC baseball coach’s firing. Tennessee let go of head baseball coach Todd Raleigh on Monday afternoon after much speculation about his future.
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2011 Missouri Valley Conference Tournament Preview

Brian Foley

– May 23, 2011Posted in: 2011 Conference Tourney, Missouri Valley

By: John Lockwood

The 2011 State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Championship tournament will take place from May 24-28 at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, NE. TD Ameritrade Park is the home of the Creighton University Jays as well as the College World Series, which will be played there from June 18-29. The format of the tournament is the same as in past seasons, with all eight teams of the MVC being seeded and matched-up accordingly along a two-sided bracket. The tournament is double-elimination with a one game championship to be played Saturday, May 28^th. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Bradley, Creighton, Evansville, Illinois State, Indiana State, Missouri State, Missouri Valley Conference, Southern Illinois, Wichita State

2011 All-ACC Baseball Team

Brian Foley

– May 23, 2011Posted in: ACC

FROM CBD NEWS SOURCE
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Clemson junior shortstop Brad Miller and Virginia junior pitcher Danny Hultzen head up the 2011 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Team, as announced today by Commissioner John Swofford.

Miller was selected the ACC Player of the Year in a vote of the league’s 12 head coaches, while Hultzen was named the ACC Pitcher of the Year for the second consecutive season. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, ACC Player of the Year, Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Miami (FL), NC State, UNC, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest

2011 CBD Mid-Major Poll (May 23rd)

Brian Foley

– May 23, 2011Posted in: 2011 CBD Mid-Major Poll, 2011 Polls

By: Aaron Kirby
The team that started the season on the top finishes the regular season on top.

#1 TCU (40-15) stays on top with another perfect week going 4-0 with a single win vs Oral Roberts and sweeping a road MWC series at New Mexico. Read the rest of this entry »

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Video of the Day: A Decade of Dominance – The Gary Ward Era

Sam Wasson

– May 23, 2011Posted in: Big 12

We offer up a history lesson on college baseball living legend Gary Ward courtesy of Oklahoma State University. The school posted a video two days ago which highlights Ward and his teams during the “Decade of Dominance” at Oklahoma State, a stretch that may never again be duplicated in college baseball. Ward authored one of the most dominant decades in all of college sports during the 80′s at Oklahoma State in which the Cowboys made seven consecutive trips to the College World Series (a feat that is still unmatched) and the team finished as the national runner ups three times during the decade.

Ward led OSU to 16 straight conference titles, 17 NCAA regional appearances and 10 trips to the College World Series. He compiled a record of 953-313-1 in 19 seasons in Stillwater. In 2002, he led New Mexico State to a Sun Belt Tournament Championship and an NCAA appearance. He finished with a career record of 1,022-361-1, which ranks 24th on the NCAA all-time wins list. He’s a member of two national college baseball Halls of Fame (College Baseball Foundation and ABCA) as well as the Hall of Fame at three different colleges (New Mexico State, Oklahoma State, Northeastern Oklahoma A&M) as well as the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame.
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Tags: Big 12, Oklahoma State, Video of the Day

Mike Anderson fired at Nebraska

Brian Foley

– May 22, 2011Posted in: Big 12, New Coach

Nebraska Athletic Director Tom Osbourne announced on Sunday evening that Nebraska head baseball coach Mike Anderson has been fired after a 30-25 campaign and a 9-17 mark in Big 12 play. Anderson spent nine seasons with the Huskers with a career record of 337-196-2 record, including two Big 12 titles (2003 and 2005) and the school’s third College World Series appearance in 2005. In that season, Nebraska won a school-record 57 games and the Huskers captured the program’s first CWS victory. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Big 12, Mike Anderson, Nebraska, New Coach

Missouri Valley Conference Recap (May 19th-21st)

Brian Foley

– May 22, 2011Posted in: Missouri Valley

By: John Lockwood

Several teams made the most of the last weekend of MVC regular season play, as three of the four series ended in sweeps. Creighton had the toughest task but came out as lone regular season conference champions with their sweep over visiting Missouri State, while Wichita State and Illinois State finished the season with sweeps over Bradley and Evansville, respectively. Elsewhere in the final series of conference play, Southern Illinois took two of three from Indiana State, solidifying fifth-place in the conference tournament, which starts Tuesday at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha. (See College Baseball Daily’s MVC Conference Tournament Preview for more information.) Read the rest of this entry »