College Baseball By The Numbers Notebook ? May 21

Number Crunching Down To The Wire… May Madness is here! Most of college baseball has crossed the regular season finish line and it’s now on to postseason conference tournaments. Most people don’t know this, but American Idol actually planned its own season finale to correspond with college baseball’s conference tournament week (that may or may not be true, but it sounds good). A good deal of this week’s installment of the notebook looks at NCAA bids & ramifications, but there’s a lot of other stuff in there as well…and Jimmy Iovine won’t be critiquing it! 3?More NCAA Tournament tickets punched over the weekend. Bethune-Cookman (MEAC), Prairie View A&M (SWAC) and Sacred Heart (Northeast) each claimed conference tournament titles to join Cornell of the Ivy League as the three teams with tickets punched to the dance so far. That leaves 26 automatic bids to be claimed in the next week before selections come out a week from today (5/29). The next bid will go to the winner of today?s Patriot League final between Army and Holy Cross. Bethune-Cookman’s title was its seventh straight.   3?Conference regular season championships to be decided this week that will determine automatic NCAA bids. The Big [...]

Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2012/05/21/college-baseball-by-the-numbers-notebook-may-21/

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