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ST. LOUIS – The Missouri Valley Conference has added Dallas Baptist University as an affiliate member in the sport of baseball and DBU will be eligible to compete for the league’s automatic NCAA bid beginning in 2014, Commissioner Doug Elgin announced today. The league’s President’s Council affirmed a recommendation to extend an invitation to Dallas Baptist for baseball affiliate membership, effective 2014 season, for multi-year inclusion (six years). Read the rest of this entry »
Independents Archive
2012 Final CBD Mid-Major Poll (June 27th)
Following their impressive run to Omaha Kent St (47-20) and Stony Brook (52-15) finish #1 and #2 in the final mid major poll of 2012. Read the rest of this entry »
2012 CBD Mid-Major Poll (May 28th)
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Purdue (44-12) ends the 2012 regular season as the #1 Mid-Major. The Boilermakers will make their first NCAA appearance since 1987 and will host (Gary, Indiana) a regional as announced Sunday. Purdue went 3-0 on their way to winning the Big 10 tourney title with a win over Ohio St and two wins over Indiana including a 6-5 win in the title game. Read the rest of this entry »
CBD Mid-Major Poll (May 21st)
By: Aaron Kirby
TCU (35-17) stays at #1 for the 3rd consecutive week. The Horned Frogs went 3-1 on the week, winning 1-0 at Oklahoma Tuesday and winning 2 of 3 vs San Diego St in MWC play. TCU finished the regular season tied for 1st with New Mexico at 18-6 in the MWC. Read the rest of this entry »
2012 CBD Mid-Major Poll (May 7th)
By: Aaron Kirby
TCU (29-16) slides up 2 spots to take over #1 for week 12. The Horned Frogs went 3-1 on the week beating Oklahoma 4-3 Tuesday and winning 2 of 3 vs New Mexico in MWC play. TCU and New Mexico are now tied atop the MWC standings at 13-5 and having split their 6 games. Read the rest of this entry »
2012 CBD Mid Major Poll (April 30th)
By: Aaron Kirby
Purdue (34-7) is #1 for the 5th consecutive week. The Boilermakers went 3-1 on week, winning 3-2 at Illinois St on Tuesday and winning 2 of 3 from Michigan St in Big 10 play. Purdue has a 3 ½ game lead in Big 10 and steps out of conference play this weekend for HUGE series at UCLA. Read the rest of this entry »
Nebraska/CSU Bakersfield Rain Delay Dance-Off
It continues the dance off videos from around the country today with Nebraska and Cal State Bakersfield taking part in the tradition yesterday. The full video is below. Read the rest of this entry »
2012 CBD Mid Major Poll (April 23rd)
Purdue (31-6) remains on top for 4th consecutive week. The Boilermakers won 12-2 at Illinois-Chicago Wednesday before they traveled to Nebraska in the Big 10 series of year to date. Purdue took game 1 Friday 8-5 and Nebraska evened series Saturday with an 8-3 win. Purdue won the series with an 8-3 win of their own on Sunday. With the series win Purdue sits in first place in Big 10, 3 ½ games ahead of Michigan St and Minnesota, at 12-3. According to warrennolan.com Purdue’s RPI is 11 which have them in very good position to host a regional. They can add to that resume in the next 2 weeks when they host Michigan St and then travel to UCLA for 3 game series May 5th-6th. Read the rest of this entry »
2012 CBD Mid Major Poll (April 16th)
By: Aaron Kirby
Purdue (28-5) remains at #1 for the 3rd consecutive week. The Boilermakers have won 8 games in row including 4-0 this week with 15-2 win at Ball State Wednesday and sweeping Illinois in Big 10 play. Read the rest of this entry »
2012 CBD Mid Major Poll (April 9th)
By: Aaron Kirby
The top 3 remain the same with Purdue (24-5) staying at #1 for second week in row. The Boilermakers had a perfect 4-0 week including sweeping their Big 10 series at Northwestern…………….. Read the rest of this entry »
2012 CBD Mid Major Poll (April 2nd)
By: Aaron Kirby
For the 4th week in a row we have a new #1. Purdue (20-5) continues to play great baseball in 2012, moving up to the top spot with a 4-1 week. The Boilermakers started the week off beating Louisville 2-1 in 10 innings on Tuesday, followed by a 6-1 win Wednesday over IUPU-Fort Wayne, and taking 2 of 3 from Penn St in Big 10 play. Read the rest of this entry »
2012 CBD Mid Major Poll (March 26th)
For the 3rd week in row we have a new #1. The week was not kind to the top 3 ranked teams, as they went a combined 3-10 for the week. Read the rest of this entry »






