Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2012/05/26/saturdays-college-baseball-scoreboard-52612/
Monday, May 28, 2012
Saturday?s College Baseball Scoreboard & Wrapup (5/26/12)
Ten teams won their conference tournaments on Saturday ? most notably 8th-seeded Creighton, which completed a 4-0 run through the Missouri Valley Conference tourney by beating fellow upstart (6) Southern Illinois, 8-6. Saturday’s nine other champions included seven top seeds, plus 4-seed Texas-Arlington in the Southland and (2) Dayton from the Atlantic-10.�For the first time all weeks, the favorites/higher seeds won at a convincing rate on Saturday ? winning 65% (33-of-51) of the day’s conference tournament games and key games in the Pac-12, Big West & WCC.�front-page courtesy of Texas Arlington The seven top seeds that closed out their conference tournaments titles on Saturday included: Purdue (Big Ten) … Belmont (Atlantic Sun) … Coastal Carolina (Big South) … UNC Wilmington (Colonial; UNCW lost to 3-seed Delaware but won decisive rematch) … Kent State (Mid-America) … Oral Roberts (Summit; beat 3-seed North Dakota State twice on Sat.) … and Utah Valley (Great West), which rested its NCAA at-large case having won 40 of its final 41 games (47-12 overall, but hurt by its #70 RPI and 262 strength-of-schedule, per WarrenNolan.com). Saturday’s 10 conference tournament champions follow Stony Brook (won America East tournament a day earlier) and five others that won their [...]
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