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TIL that the 1982 Wichita St. Shockers finished CWS runners up with a record of 73-14...
Posted on 4/17/24 at 2:46 pm
Posted on 4/17/24 at 2:46 pm
...and that's not even the record for number of games played in a season.
That same year, San Diego State went 57-31-3 over 91 games WITHOUT the extra games of being in Omaha and going 0-2 in their regional. Win their regional and go deep in Omaha and that team is touching 100 games.
It was a very different time, I guess.
How the hell do you play 91 games in one "semester"?
That same year, San Diego State went 57-31-3 over 91 games WITHOUT the extra games of being in Omaha and going 0-2 in their regional. Win their regional and go deep in Omaha and that team is touching 100 games.
It was a very different time, I guess.
How the hell do you play 91 games in one "semester"?
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Posted on 4/17/24 at 2:47 pm to Ag Zwin
I thought season used to begin in January, some JUCOs do. But it appears the reality is they used to play a crap load of double headers.
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Posted on 4/17/24 at 2:50 pm to Ag Zwin
Had a 26 game win streak in 1990. Longest of anyone in college baseball that year.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 2:52 pm to Ag Zwin
Teams played more games back then because
(a) they started earlier
(b) they were allowed to play in more early season tournaments/less off time
(c) they kept playing 2-3 midweek games even after conference play started (most teams only play 1 now for the first half of the conference season then stop all together the last half)
but that Wichita team was also pretty unique. They played WAY more games than anyone else.
1982 CWS
Wichita State - 82 games
Cal St Fullerton - 72 games
Oklahoma State - 70 games
Miami - 68 games
Stanford - 65 games
Texas - 61 games
South Carolina - 56 games
Maine - 44 games
As an example, Oklahoma State played 10 games in Lakeland, FL to start that season over a 8 day period against northern teams. Then they played 8 games in a 4 day period in Edinburg, TX. So from February 27 to March 12 (14 days), Oklahoma State played 18 games.
Oklahoma State played 31 games from February 27 to March 31 (33 days).
(a) they started earlier
(b) they were allowed to play in more early season tournaments/less off time
(c) they kept playing 2-3 midweek games even after conference play started (most teams only play 1 now for the first half of the conference season then stop all together the last half)
but that Wichita team was also pretty unique. They played WAY more games than anyone else.
1982 CWS
Wichita State - 82 games
Cal St Fullerton - 72 games
Oklahoma State - 70 games
Miami - 68 games
Stanford - 65 games
Texas - 61 games
South Carolina - 56 games
Maine - 44 games
As an example, Oklahoma State played 10 games in Lakeland, FL to start that season over a 8 day period against northern teams. Then they played 8 games in a 4 day period in Edinburg, TX. So from February 27 to March 12 (14 days), Oklahoma State played 18 games.
Oklahoma State played 31 games from February 27 to March 31 (33 days).
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Posted on 4/17/24 at 2:54 pm to Ag Zwin
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How the hell do you play 91 games in one "semester"?
before the universal 56 game schedule, it was wild at the disparity of games played around the country. But to answer your question, that team played 25 double headers that season. They had 73 regular season games.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 2:55 pm to Ag Zwin
But what does that have to do with the number of doubles hit by 10rc???!
Posted on 4/17/24 at 2:55 pm to Temple of the Dog
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Teams played more games back then because
(a) they started earlier
Wichita St started the season on 02/18 in 1982. College baseball opened on 02/16 this year
Posted on 4/17/24 at 2:57 pm to lsufball19
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played 25 double headers that season.
That is stout.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 2:58 pm to Ag Zwin
This is nuthin. In the year 2022 BaseVols baseball had the greatest seaon in the history of baseball. 57-9. 25-5 SEC. 4-0 SECt.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 2:59 pm to lsufball19
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Wichita St started the season on 02/18 in 1982. College baseball opened on 02/16 this year
A lot of school did, though. Miami started February 5th. Arizona State started February 2nd in 1981.
Like you said, scheduling was the wild west. You could do as little or as much as you wanted and could start basically whenever you wanted.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 3:05 pm to Temple of the Dog
The other crazy part looking at that schedule is WSU played a ton of today's D2 and NAIA programs. They also played in a conference tournament not having played any of those teams in the regular season. Also played a 3 game set with CSF after the conference tournament.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 3:34 pm to RoscoeHarper
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The other crazy part looking at that schedule is WSU played a ton of today's D2 and NAIA programs.
College baseball was a lot different back then. For instance, Hardin-Simmons made the NCAAT in 1982. They are now a DIII school. I imagine some o those schools Wichita St played were D1 back in 1982.
The NCAAT also only fielded 36 teams with 21 auto-bids. The NCAAT regionals were also weird. There were 8 regionals, 6 with 6 teams and 2 with 4 teams.
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They also played in a conference tournament not having played any of those teams in the regular season.
Their conference in 1982 was only 7 teams: Them, Indiana St, Southern Illinois, Bradley, Illinois St, Creighton, and New Mexico St. They, Creighton, and New Mexico St were in the West division and the others in the East Division. They played Creighton 5x and New Mexico St 8 times. I imagine budgets back then prevented traveling from Kansas to Illinois. Doubt they had the money to charter flights and it was too far to go by bus for a weekend series. Anyways, the top 2 teams from each division made the MVC tournament, and then they played a 4 team double elimination tournament.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 3:44 pm to Lonnie Utah
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Had a 26 game win streak in 1990. Longest of anyone in college baseball that year.
The year before, A&M started 26-0, lost to Okie Lite, then got to 40-1 before dropping series opener to Texas (and winning next two on walk off homers).
Went into regional final at 58-5. Then that bastard Ben McDonald and LSU…
Finished 58-7. As far as I know, the only team to finish #2 in the polls without going to Omaha.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 5:03 pm to Ag Zwin
And not a single pearl was clutched about pitch counts either
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