When it comes to college baseball the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) is typically overlooked. The schools are often in tiny off-the-beaten-path towns, seemingly always having some an askew direction or some sort of religious element to their name (Northeast Nebraska Nazarene State would be a quintessential school). And aside from parents and other…
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2018 NAIA Baseball National Championship Opening Round Regions
Numbers following the team names are their latest Perfect Game ranking followed by their RPI. Teams in blue are predicted winners, teams in orange are predicted second place finishers. Teams that are struck out have been eliminated. Regional winners are listed in bold. Runner-ups are italicized. Bowling Green, KY Science and Arts (5,10) Campbellsville (18,…
DII, NAIA, DIII rankings: Mar. 21
With this being the fifth in-season ranking, it’s unofficially the halfway point of the college baseball regular season. The pendulum officially swings from teams being rated less on potential and more on performance. Before the season started that were a number of teams like looked like legitimate title contenders, however, for one reason or another…
DII, NAIA, DIII rankings: Mar. 14
If you’re a big fan of chaos and upheaval this week’s small school rankings won’t be for you. In D-II, nine of the teams from last week’s top 10 are still in the same group, just with a slight jostling of positions. For the most part each team held relatively close to their previous position….
DII, NAIA, DIII rankings: Feb. 21
The first rankings update of the year is here, but seeing that just under half of the D-II and D-III have yet to play an official game this season, there isn’t much to report. A sensational start isn’t reason enough to catapult a team up the rankings just as a dismal first few games isn’t…
2018 NAIA Baseball Preview
In the event of a nuclear war it’s universally forecasted that the planetary climate would change violently and irrevocably. Temperatures would plunge below freezing, even in summer, endangering the world’s food supply as ashen clouds would block the sun. Burning cities and countrysides would devastate health conditions for any surviving plants and animals around the…