When it comes to college baseball the NAIA is often the forgotten middle child. The players don’t suit up in the familiar uniforms of glamorous programs whose emblems are emblazoned on man cave walls, tow-hitches and hooded pullovers across the country. If quizzed many people could easily name Florida State’s team mascot or identify the…
Final 2016 DII, NAIA, DIII Rankings
If the small school postseason is any barometer of what’s to come as the D-I season comes to a crescendo, there are going to be slew of memories made in Omaha in a couple of weeks. The 2016 small school baseball season saw two clubs win their first-ever school baseball title while the third was…
DII, NAIA, DIII Rankings: May 18
The postseason regionals were announced last week and for the most part I think the selection committees were on point. As always there were a few inclusions/omissions as well as seedings which left me a bit puzzled, but overall it’s hard to argue too hard. Notable absences from the D-II level included Florida Southern, Erskine,…
DII, NAIA, DIII Rankings: May 11
These are, for all intents and purposes, the last rankings that have any substance as far as the rest of the season plays out. In the next few days the final decisions will be made as to who’s in and who’s out. There are no more quality wins to be earned or style points to…
DII, NAIA, DIII Rankings: May 4
As the regular season begins to crescendo, the top teams in each of the small school divisions are continuing to pull away from the rest of the pack. There was only minor shuffling in the Top 25, especially in the top 10 where the positions remained virtually the same. In these last couple of weeks…
DII, NAIA, DIII Rankings: Apr. 27
Overall this season has pretty much played out at anticipated. In D-II the top six teams in the way-back-in-the-preseason rankings are still the same top six teams today (albeit in a slightly different arrangement). In the NAIA it hasn’t been quite as stable at the top, but overall the 2016 prognostications have been pretty legit….