Friday?s College Baseball Top-50 Schedule

Several traditional in-state rivals are set to face each other, highlighting Friday’s college baseball schedule that includes seven head-to-head battles between top-50 teams in the CB360�Composite National Rankings. Most notably, two-time defending NCAA champion South Carolina (cb360 #3) will be taking on #14 Clemson (6 ET) in the opener of a unique three-site series (Friday’s game is in Charleston, followed by home games for each team). front-page photo courtesy of South Carolina There’s two other marquee in-state rivalries on tap, with�#1 Florida playing at #10 Miami (7 ET) while #4 Rice will tangle with #19 Texas (7 CT) at Minute Maid Park in downtown Houston. That facility ? home of the Houston Astros ? also will be the site for #7 Arkansas taking on #37 Texas Tech (12 CT) … two schools that were Southwest Conference rivals from 1956-96, for those of us who remember the pre-Big 12 days. Three west-coast schools have headed east for top matchups:�#30 USC at #6 North Carolina (3 ET) …�#42 Pepperdine at #21 Louisville (3 ET) … and�#31 UC Irvine at #25 Baylor (6 CT). #24 California is the only CB360 top-50 team that is idle on Friday, with the slate including 45 total [...]

Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2012/03/02/fridays-college-baseball-top-50-schedule-11/

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