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College World Series - Vandy Baseball National Champs!!!!!!
Posted on 6/11/19 at 5:47 pm
Posted on 6/11/19 at 5:47 pm
Congratulations Commodores!
SEC Champs
SEC Tourney Champs
National Champs
Hell of a season!!
SEC Champs
SEC Tourney Champs
National Champs
Hell of a season!!
This post was edited on 6/26/19 at 9:18 pm
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Posted on 6/11/19 at 5:56 pm to bigDgator
That's pretty impressive
Posted on 6/11/19 at 6:05 pm to LSUlefty
Arksulli talked me into it. 
Posted on 6/11/19 at 6:09 pm to bigDgator
Congrats to all the SEC teams that were good enough to make it.
Good luck to most of ya'll!
Good luck to most of ya'll!
This post was edited on 6/11/19 at 6:13 pm
Posted on 6/11/19 at 6:11 pm to bigDgator
You misspelled vols.
Right?
Right?
Posted on 6/11/19 at 6:11 pm to bigDgator
Good luck Auburn!
Posted on 6/11/19 at 6:21 pm to Bulldogblitz
Alright now no rabble rousing and otherwise janky behavior. Vols had a good season this year.
Good one though.
Good one though.
This post was edited on 6/11/19 at 6:22 pm
Posted on 6/11/19 at 6:24 pm to bigDgator
Good luck to all the SEC teams.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 6:25 pm to kilo
When did the College World Series start?
The first-ever NCAA Division I baseball tournament was in 1947, and would barely be recognized as the same tournament nowadays. The 1947 tournament featured just eight teams, which were divided into two four-team, single-elimination brackets. The two winners — California and Yale — then met in a best-of-three final in Kalamazoo, Michigan. California would go undefeated through the inaugural CWS and beat Yale to capture the first title.
The first-ever NCAA Division I baseball tournament was in 1947, and would barely be recognized as the same tournament nowadays. The 1947 tournament featured just eight teams, which were divided into two four-team, single-elimination brackets. The two winners — California and Yale — then met in a best-of-three final in Kalamazoo, Michigan. California would go undefeated through the inaugural CWS and beat Yale to capture the first title.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 6:26 pm to bigDgator
The tournament has grown a lot since 1947. There are currently 64 teams that compete in four rounds (two double-elimination brackets, two best-of-three series) for the title.
Here are the major changes to the tournament, as they happened:
1948: First-round playoffs were changed to double-elimination.
1949: The final was expanded to a four-team, double-elimination format, and the site changed to Wichita, Kansas.
1950: Site moves to Omaha, Nebraska.
1954: Field expands to 23 teams. The field size bounces around between 21 and 32 for the next two decades. In the 22 years between 1954 and 1975, the field is never the same size two years in a row.
1976: Field expands to 34 teams, where it will stay until 1982.
1982: Field expands to 36 teams. Will expand multiple times in the next few years, before settling at 48 teams in 1987, where it will stay until 1999.
1988-1998: The eight regional champions are seeded into two four-team brackets. Those two brackets play double-elimination with the bracket winners then meeting in a one-game championship.
1999: Field expands to current size of 64 teams, super regionals are added.
2003: CWS finals become a best-of-three series.
Here are the major changes to the tournament, as they happened:
1948: First-round playoffs were changed to double-elimination.
1949: The final was expanded to a four-team, double-elimination format, and the site changed to Wichita, Kansas.
1950: Site moves to Omaha, Nebraska.
1954: Field expands to 23 teams. The field size bounces around between 21 and 32 for the next two decades. In the 22 years between 1954 and 1975, the field is never the same size two years in a row.
1976: Field expands to 34 teams, where it will stay until 1982.
1982: Field expands to 36 teams. Will expand multiple times in the next few years, before settling at 48 teams in 1987, where it will stay until 1999.
1988-1998: The eight regional champions are seeded into two four-team brackets. Those two brackets play double-elimination with the bracket winners then meeting in a one-game championship.
1999: Field expands to current size of 64 teams, super regionals are added.
2003: CWS finals become a best-of-three series.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 6:28 pm to bigDgator
Who has won the most College World Series?
In the 72-year history of the tournament, 29 different teams have won the CWS.
But no team has won it more often than Southern California. The Trojans have 12 titles to their name, with the first coming in 1948, and the most recent in 1998. That also includes a stretch from 1968 to 1974, when USC won six of seven titles.
In the 72-year history of the tournament, 29 different teams have won the CWS.
But no team has won it more often than Southern California. The Trojans have 12 titles to their name, with the first coming in 1948, and the most recent in 1998. That also includes a stretch from 1968 to 1974, when USC won six of seven titles.
This post was edited on 6/11/19 at 6:31 pm
Posted on 6/11/19 at 6:32 pm to bigDgator
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Congrat's to Arky, Aubie, State and Vandy!
On behalf of Auburn, I accept your congratulations. Thank you, bigDgator.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 6:39 pm to bigDgator
Here are the conferences most represented in the College World Series
When the Oregon State Beavers defeated the Arkansas Razorbacks in the 2018 College World Series championship series, it was yet another season that ended with an SEC team in the hunt right down to the final at bat.
Looking back over the past ten seasons, it’s fair to make the assumption that the SEC is the power conference of College World Series lore. Looking at a small sample size, since 2009, five SEC schools have won the national championship — LSU in 2009, South Carolina twice in 2010 and 2011, Vanderbilt in 2014, and Florida in 2017 — while six more have finished as the national runners-up. In fact, there have been two all-SEC showdowns in the College World Series finals over that span, with South Carolina taking down Florida in 2011 and Florida defeating LSU two years ago.
While the SEC has dominated recent CWS history, that's not always how it's been in Omaha. With many a national champion hailing from the West Coast, let’s look back at the 72 years of College World Series history and take a look at the conferences most represented in Omaha.
(*using current conference membership only via the official NCAA CWS record books)
101 — Pac-12
This probably isn’t too much of a surprise if you follow the history of college baseball closely. Four of the current members of the Pac-12 — Southern California, Arizona State, Arizona, and Stanford — are in the top six in wins in College World Series history.
Those four schools have combined for 23 championships alone, while Oregon State, California, and UCLA have all won at least one as well. The Beavers added six more wins to the conference’s legacy last season, and the 267 combined victories are second to none by a large margin. No other conference has more than 180 wins or 20 national titles, putting the Pac-12 in a league of its own.
99 — SEC
The SEC has taken over Omaha the past few decades. Wrap your head around this. Since 1990, the SEC has sent three or more teams to the College World Series nine times. A conference has sent four teams to the CWS just four times in its history, and the SEC has accounted for three of them, most recently in 2015 when the Razorbacks, Gators, Tigers, and Commodores headed to Omaha. Current members have accounted for 12 titles (the SEC can claim 11 total using actual conference membership at the time of the championship), with LSU’s six leading the way. With the Razorbacks runner-up finish in 2018, it gave the SEC 18 in total, the most in CWS history.
94 — ACC
The ACC was the other conference to be represented in the College World Series by four teams. It pulled it off in 2006 when Clemson, Georgia Tech, Miami, and North Carolina made it to Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha. Miami and Florida State are both in the top 5 in history in appearances at the College World Series with 25 and 22 respectively — with a Miami vs. Florida State showdown in the 1999 College World Series finals — while current members of the ACC have accounted for six titles. Perhaps not shockingly, the ACC’s 147 wins are also third-most.
78 — Big 12
Texas is the name to know here, as its 35 appearances in Omaha (the Longhorns also had another in Wichita, Kansas before the CWS moved to Rosenblatt Stadium) are the most in College World Series history. Though Texas has won six titles, only two have come as members of the official Big 12, the only two championships the current conference can boast with members active at the time of victory. Oklahoma State joins Texas as one of just six schools to make 20 or more appearances in the College World Series, so the Big 12’s high total shouldn’t be too surprising.
28 — Big Ten
It’s quite the drop to the conference that has made the fifth-most appearances in CWS history. Out of those 28 appearances, however, the Big Ten has won six national titles with Minnesota (three) and Michigan (two) leading the way, which is tied for the third-most all-time using actual conference membership per season. Nine Big Ten teams have combined for 54 wins all-time in Omaha.
When the Oregon State Beavers defeated the Arkansas Razorbacks in the 2018 College World Series championship series, it was yet another season that ended with an SEC team in the hunt right down to the final at bat.
Looking back over the past ten seasons, it’s fair to make the assumption that the SEC is the power conference of College World Series lore. Looking at a small sample size, since 2009, five SEC schools have won the national championship — LSU in 2009, South Carolina twice in 2010 and 2011, Vanderbilt in 2014, and Florida in 2017 — while six more have finished as the national runners-up. In fact, there have been two all-SEC showdowns in the College World Series finals over that span, with South Carolina taking down Florida in 2011 and Florida defeating LSU two years ago.
While the SEC has dominated recent CWS history, that's not always how it's been in Omaha. With many a national champion hailing from the West Coast, let’s look back at the 72 years of College World Series history and take a look at the conferences most represented in Omaha.
(*using current conference membership only via the official NCAA CWS record books)
101 — Pac-12
This probably isn’t too much of a surprise if you follow the history of college baseball closely. Four of the current members of the Pac-12 — Southern California, Arizona State, Arizona, and Stanford — are in the top six in wins in College World Series history.
Those four schools have combined for 23 championships alone, while Oregon State, California, and UCLA have all won at least one as well. The Beavers added six more wins to the conference’s legacy last season, and the 267 combined victories are second to none by a large margin. No other conference has more than 180 wins or 20 national titles, putting the Pac-12 in a league of its own.
99 — SEC
The SEC has taken over Omaha the past few decades. Wrap your head around this. Since 1990, the SEC has sent three or more teams to the College World Series nine times. A conference has sent four teams to the CWS just four times in its history, and the SEC has accounted for three of them, most recently in 2015 when the Razorbacks, Gators, Tigers, and Commodores headed to Omaha. Current members have accounted for 12 titles (the SEC can claim 11 total using actual conference membership at the time of the championship), with LSU’s six leading the way. With the Razorbacks runner-up finish in 2018, it gave the SEC 18 in total, the most in CWS history.
94 — ACC
The ACC was the other conference to be represented in the College World Series by four teams. It pulled it off in 2006 when Clemson, Georgia Tech, Miami, and North Carolina made it to Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha. Miami and Florida State are both in the top 5 in history in appearances at the College World Series with 25 and 22 respectively — with a Miami vs. Florida State showdown in the 1999 College World Series finals — while current members of the ACC have accounted for six titles. Perhaps not shockingly, the ACC’s 147 wins are also third-most.
78 — Big 12
Texas is the name to know here, as its 35 appearances in Omaha (the Longhorns also had another in Wichita, Kansas before the CWS moved to Rosenblatt Stadium) are the most in College World Series history. Though Texas has won six titles, only two have come as members of the official Big 12, the only two championships the current conference can boast with members active at the time of victory. Oklahoma State joins Texas as one of just six schools to make 20 or more appearances in the College World Series, so the Big 12’s high total shouldn’t be too surprising.
28 — Big Ten
It’s quite the drop to the conference that has made the fifth-most appearances in CWS history. Out of those 28 appearances, however, the Big Ten has won six national titles with Minnesota (three) and Michigan (two) leading the way, which is tied for the third-most all-time using actual conference membership per season. Nine Big Ten teams have combined for 54 wins all-time in Omaha.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 6:48 pm to bigDgator
SEC TEAMS STORYLINES
ARKANSAS
Storyline: In this academic year of redemption — Clemson getting even with Alabama in football, Virginia atoning for its first round disaster in basketball — why not the Razorbacks? Last June must still be hard to forget, when they were one out away from finishing off Oregon State for their first national championship. Then came the botched foul pop-up, an RBI single for the Beavers, a two-run homer, a 5-3 loss for Arkansas, and the next night, a 5-0 shutout by Oregon State. Anguish. Pure anguish.
Stat of note: Besides that he was born in Portugal and graduated from high school with a 4.125 grade point average, what else should we know Isaiah Campbell? He’s the Arkansas ace, with a 12-1 record, and an ERA a good deal lower than his GPA — 2.26 — with a 115-20 strikeout-walk ratio. In two NCAA Tournament games, he struck out 15, walked two and gave up nine hits and three runs in 16.1 innings. Not a bad guy to send out to quell the first jitters in Omaha.
AUBURN
Storyline: The Tigers haven’t been to the CWS since 1997, but they were close enough to Omaha last year to smell the cooking at the tailgate parties — losing in the 11th inning of the super regional championship to Florida. Such grief can give the next year’s team a mission. It apparently did. All they ask is that it not end in Omaha as painfully as it did for the Auburn basketball team in Minneapolis at the Final Four.
Stat of note: Auburn doesn’t have one man in the regular lineup hitting .300. Problems with the offense? Not hardly. Did you notice the first game of the super regional, when the Tigers scored nine runs in the eighth and ninth inning to blow past North Carolina 11-7? Or Monday’s winner-take-all third game, when they put up 13 runs in the first inning — the second highest scoring inning in NCAA Tournament history — and breezed to Omaha 14-7? The football team doesn’t usually score that much in the first quarter.
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Storyline: Could a first-year coach really win this thing? Chris Lemonis will be trying, having already savored the most successful season for a new coach in SEC history. The Citadel will be in his corner. That’s Lemonis’ alma mater. Same for McDonnell, meaning The Citadel can claim 25 percent of the head coaches in this College World Series.
Stat of note: The season started with Mississippi State striking out the first five Youngstown State batters. Talk about your tone-setter. The Bulldogs finished the regular season third in the nation in both strikeouts per nine innings and strikeout-walk ratio, so the sweep of Stanford in the super regional was pretty much on form. The pitchers mowed down 24 batters in two games, with only 13 hits, three runs and five walks.
VANDERBILT
Storyline: The Commodores hope to party like it’s 2014. That’s when they won the national championship with an impressive display of brinksmanship, their five wins coming by a total of seven runs. So they will be the only team in Omaha with a national championship in the past 56 years. And Tim Corbin, who has led all four of Vandy’s CWS teams, will be the only man in town who has won a title.
Stat of note: Behold, balance. Vanderbilt finished the regular season fourth in the nation in batting averaging, fourth in fielding percentage (38 errors all year), fifth in scoring and fourth in strikeouts per nine innings. That gave the Commodores an answer for nearly every situation, such as the Super Regional, when they coughed up 18 runs to Duke one day . . . and had Kumar Rocker throw a no-hitter and strike out 19 the next.
ARKANSAS
Storyline: In this academic year of redemption — Clemson getting even with Alabama in football, Virginia atoning for its first round disaster in basketball — why not the Razorbacks? Last June must still be hard to forget, when they were one out away from finishing off Oregon State for their first national championship. Then came the botched foul pop-up, an RBI single for the Beavers, a two-run homer, a 5-3 loss for Arkansas, and the next night, a 5-0 shutout by Oregon State. Anguish. Pure anguish.
Stat of note: Besides that he was born in Portugal and graduated from high school with a 4.125 grade point average, what else should we know Isaiah Campbell? He’s the Arkansas ace, with a 12-1 record, and an ERA a good deal lower than his GPA — 2.26 — with a 115-20 strikeout-walk ratio. In two NCAA Tournament games, he struck out 15, walked two and gave up nine hits and three runs in 16.1 innings. Not a bad guy to send out to quell the first jitters in Omaha.
AUBURN
Storyline: The Tigers haven’t been to the CWS since 1997, but they were close enough to Omaha last year to smell the cooking at the tailgate parties — losing in the 11th inning of the super regional championship to Florida. Such grief can give the next year’s team a mission. It apparently did. All they ask is that it not end in Omaha as painfully as it did for the Auburn basketball team in Minneapolis at the Final Four.
Stat of note: Auburn doesn’t have one man in the regular lineup hitting .300. Problems with the offense? Not hardly. Did you notice the first game of the super regional, when the Tigers scored nine runs in the eighth and ninth inning to blow past North Carolina 11-7? Or Monday’s winner-take-all third game, when they put up 13 runs in the first inning — the second highest scoring inning in NCAA Tournament history — and breezed to Omaha 14-7? The football team doesn’t usually score that much in the first quarter.
MISSISSIPPI STATE
Storyline: Could a first-year coach really win this thing? Chris Lemonis will be trying, having already savored the most successful season for a new coach in SEC history. The Citadel will be in his corner. That’s Lemonis’ alma mater. Same for McDonnell, meaning The Citadel can claim 25 percent of the head coaches in this College World Series.
Stat of note: The season started with Mississippi State striking out the first five Youngstown State batters. Talk about your tone-setter. The Bulldogs finished the regular season third in the nation in both strikeouts per nine innings and strikeout-walk ratio, so the sweep of Stanford in the super regional was pretty much on form. The pitchers mowed down 24 batters in two games, with only 13 hits, three runs and five walks.
VANDERBILT
Storyline: The Commodores hope to party like it’s 2014. That’s when they won the national championship with an impressive display of brinksmanship, their five wins coming by a total of seven runs. So they will be the only team in Omaha with a national championship in the past 56 years. And Tim Corbin, who has led all four of Vandy’s CWS teams, will be the only man in town who has won a title.
Stat of note: Behold, balance. Vanderbilt finished the regular season fourth in the nation in batting averaging, fourth in fielding percentage (38 errors all year), fifth in scoring and fourth in strikeouts per nine innings. That gave the Commodores an answer for nearly every situation, such as the Super Regional, when they coughed up 18 runs to Duke one day . . . and had Kumar Rocker throw a no-hitter and strike out 19 the next.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 6:52 pm to bigDgator
quote:
Arksulli talked me into it.
I promised him booze. Its my go to bribe!
Posted on 6/11/19 at 6:53 pm to bigDgator
So what you're saying is in the sec it just means more but in the pac 12 it means morer?
Posted on 6/11/19 at 6:56 pm to Bulldogblitz
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So what you're saying is in the sec it just means more but in the pac 12 it means morer?
More like the SEC and PAC-12 give a rat's behind about baseball, with the ACC coming close, but the PAC-12 gave a rat's behind sooner then everyone else.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 11:04 pm to Arksulli
I pulled that from the NCAA website, but it might not include this season which would change things in favor of the SEC.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 11:13 pm to bigDgator
It would have been nice if one more Sec team made it in. Don’t get me wrong, having 4 from a single conference is damn stout. That’s 50% of all Cws teams. But 5 really would have been more fun.
ETA: Btw, nice work bigDgator. Good stuff.
ETA: Btw, nice work bigDgator. Good stuff.
This post was edited on 6/11/19 at 11:15 pm
Posted on 6/12/19 at 8:35 am to bigDgator
Congrats to Arky, Aubie and State. Will pass on Vandy because of the Whistler.
With any luck they lose to Louisville and then lose to the winner of State-Aubie.
With any luck they lose to Louisville and then lose to the winner of State-Aubie.
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