Is baseball the collegiate sport with the most parity?

God no. It’s regional/niche as hell. Partiy only exists in the SEC. But college baseball is like college hockey. Only a few care.

There's a lot of parity among those southern teams, though. Even from mid-major schools. The south seems to dominate outdoor sports that rely on extended periods of warm weather in general.

As much as we dog on the ACC, they do at least send like 10+ teams bowling every single year, and they're mainstays in the Supers/CWS.

Honestly it’s truly wild the politics that led to the acc/big east and lack of a national conference on the eastern seaboard(Joe paterno often spoke about this). Literally everything you need to make a successful conference is there, population, interest, history tradition. Infighting, cultural barriers, cronyism and greed stifled it from the start. I’m not making a plea to undo a century of college sports history but we would of had way more conference parity if there had ever been a true east coast conference like the pacific conference(pac 8) had. Instead the east was divided into a northeast conference(big east) mid Atlantic(acc) and southern(sec) that joined with other Deep South institutions.

Plenty of universities without big football funded budgets succeed in mens basketball. Villanova, Gonzaga, Butler, UConn, Xavier, etc. And MBB is far less regional with title contenders and fan interest spread nationally in both urban and rural areas.

Yes
We have seen a 4 seed Fresno State win it all

We have seen the last team in Ole Miss win it all

Most parity for sure

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Its the collegiate sport with the least amount of bullshite, by far.

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MLB allowing guys to go high schoolers go go straight to the minors or go to college and commit to staying three years has served college baseball pretty well.

BUMP