Northern Sun D2 Baseball Poll | Northern Sun Baseball

Archive for the 'Northern Sun D2 Baseball Poll' Category

Northern Sun D2 College Baseball Poll – 3/23/10

Published March 23, 2010 College Baseball , College Baseball Polls , D2 Baseball , Division 2 College Baseball , Minnesota State Baseball , NCAA College Baseball , Northern Sun Conference Baseball , Northern Sun D2 Baseball Poll , St. Cloud State Baseball , Winona State Baseball Leave a Comment

The Northern Sun Division 2 College Baseball Poll is back for its 2nd year. Each week, the Northern Sun Baseball Blog combines the 3 primary Division 2 College Baseball Poll’s into 1 composite ranking of the Top 30 teams.

There’s a new number 1 team in NCAA Division 2 baseball and it’s the University of California – San Diego. The Tritons pulled into the #1 position without playing a game. Florida Southern, the team at the top of the polls the first 3 weeks of our 2010 poll, dropped to #2 after being punished by the NCBWA for losing 1 of their 4 games during the week.

Big movers up this week included USC – Aiken and Emporia State who move into the Top 10 and the biggest mover, Northern Kentucky, who broke into the Top 30 and jumped up all the way to a tie for 20th. Abilene Christian, Columbus State and Franklin Pierce all dropped 4 or more spots.

The Baseball Writers poll (NCBWA) continues to be the oddball this year. Not only did they punish Florida Southern but they have significantly different ratings than the other 2 polls in a number of areas. These can be seen with teams like West Chester, Columbus State, New Mexico Highlands and Valdosta State. In addition, they have 5 teams in their Top 30 that don’t show up in either of the other 2 polls.

The Northern Sun Conference lost its 1 representative in the Top 30 as Minnesota State dropped just out of the poll. Winona State and St. Cloud State also received Top 30 recognition in at least 1 poll.

CBN – College Baseball News; Ping – Ping!Baseball; NCBWA – National College Baseball Writers Association; NSB Rank – Northern Sun Baseball Composite Poll; Comb Pts – Combined points in the composite rankings; LW – Last week’s composite ranking

College Baseball News Poll

Ping!Baseball Poll

NCBWA Poll

Northern Sun D2 College Baseball Poll – 3/16/10

Published March 16, 2010 College Baseball Polls , College Baseball Rankings , D2 Baseball , Division 2 College Baseball , Division ii Baseball , Minnesota State Baseball , Northern Sun Conference Baseball , Northern Sun D2 Baseball Poll , St. Cloud State Baseball , Winona State Baseball Leave a Comment

For the 3rd straight week Florida Southern is the unanimous #1 team in NCAA Division 2 baseball. The Moccasins swept games against good opponents in Winona State, Ashland and Valdosta State to solidify their record.

For some reason, CBN and NCBWA dropped Southern Arkansas in the rankings despite the Muleriders winning all their games. With those changes they move from a tie for 2nd in the poll all the way down to 5th place.

Tampa made a big move up the rankings as they go from #20 to #15 and now to #7 this week. They not only won 7 games during the week, they won them by a large average margin. USC – Aiken also had a nice move upward and Southeastern Oklahoma makes its first appearance ever on this poll coming in at #26.

The Northern Sun Conference’s Minnesota State comes in at a tie for #29 while Winona State and St. Cloud State both received some votes this week.

College Baseball News Poll

Ping!Baseball Poll

NCBWA Poll

Northern Sun D2 College Baseball Poll – 3/10/10

Published March 10, 2010 College Baseball , College Baseball Polls , College Baseball Rankings , D2 Baseball , Division 2 College Baseball , Division ii Baseball , Minnesota State Baseball , Northern Sun Conference Baseball , Northern Sun D2 Baseball Poll , Winona State Baseball 15 Comments

For the 2nd week in a row Florida Southern was the unanimous #1 team in NCAA Division 2 College Baseball as they swept the top spot in all 3 D2 polls. As is typical early in the season, we did see some significant movement in the rankings as Francis Marion dropped all the way from #3 to #12, Delta State dropped 7 spots to a tie for #17 and Catawba dropped from #15 all the way out of the Top 30.

On the other hand, we saw big moves upward by Columbus State who moved up from #12 to #6, UNC – Pembroke who broke into the Top 30 to a tie for #17 and Incarnate Word (#25) who last week wasn’t ranked by any of the 3 polls and this week made the Top 30 in all 3 with big wins over previous Top 30 team, Texas – Permian Basin.

One trend that continues this year is that the College Baseball News poll continues to track the most closely to the Northern Sun Poll. CBN has only 1 of their Top 30 not make the Northern Sun Top 30. Last year it seemed like PING! was the most divergent and they certainly have some differences this week from the other 2 (Mount Olive, Columbus State, Franklin Pierce) but it seems like the Baseball Writers poll has the most differences with choices like New Mexico Highlands (#10), Francis Marion at #20 and Cal State Bernardino at #12 when they don’t even make the other 2 polls at all.

Northern Sun Conference team, Minnesota State, is now in the Top 30 in 2 of the national polls and is tied for #28 in the Northern Sun D2 Poll. Winona State also made the Top 30 in 2 polls but didn’t get enough total points to crack the Top 30 in the composite poll.

College Baseball News Poll

Ping!Baseball Poll

NCBWA Poll

Northern Sun D2 College Baseball Poll – 3/5/10

Published March 5, 2010 College Baseball Polls , College Baseball Rankings , D2 Baseball , Division 2 College Baseball , Division ii Baseball , Minnesota State Baseball , NCAA College Baseball , Northern Sun Conference Baseball , Northern Sun D2 Baseball Poll , St. Cloud State Baseball , Wayne State Baseball 27 Comments

There is a consensus #1 team in NCAA D2 College Baseball and it’s Florida Southern. The team did lose 13-1 on Tuesday after the poll came out. The fact that the loss was against the Detroit Tigers major league team probably won’t hurt them in the polls – Moc’s Lose to Tigers

As is common in early season polls, there are lots of diverging opinions about the rest of the Top 30 teams. Only 20 teams are on all 3 polls but you have lots of different opinions on teams like Cal State – San Bernardino who is ranked 5th by the Baseball Writers, #25 by D2 Head Coaches and out of the Top 30 by Ping. Mount Olive is another case where NCBWA ranks the 14-0 team #2 overall but they only manage #15 by Ping. Their games on Wednesday against our #15 team, Catawba, were postponed unfortunately.

With their #22 ranking in the NCBWA poll it allowed Minnesota State from the Northern Sun Conference to achieve a #24 ranking in our poll. I’m guessing their doubleheader loss to Bemidji State this week will make that short lived. St. Cloud State (#28) and Wayne State (#30) all were recognized in the NCBWA poll this week.

College Baseball News Poll

Ping!Baseball Poll

NCBWA Poll

Wayne State – 2010 Preview

Published January 23, 2010 College Baseball Polls , College Baseball Rankings , D2 Baseball , D2 College Baseball Awards , Division 2 College Baseball , Division ii Baseball , NCAA College Baseball , NCAA Division 2 Baseball Tournament , Northern Sun Baseball Standings , Northern Sun Conference Baseball , Northern Sun D2 Baseball Poll , Wayne State Baseball 19 Comments

Today I conclude my 2010 season previews with a preview of Wayne State. I look back at their results in 2009, key roster transitions and make a prediction about where I expect the 2010 team will finish.

Wayne State – 2009 Results

The Wildcats concluded 2009 the same way they’ve been concluding seasons for some time now – with the Northern Sun Conference regular season title and a trip to the NCAA Regional Tournament. In fact, this was the 6th straight conference title and NCAA appearance. Along the way, the team set records for most wins by a NSIC team in league play going 27-4 and tying a team record for most wins in a season with an overall record of 45-14. After winning the regular season crown the team finished 2nd in the NSIC Postseason Tournament (NSIC Tourney Results) and then went on to finish 2nd in the NCAA Regional to just miss out on a chance to advance to the D2 College World Series Mesa State Upends Wayne St..

Continue reading ‘Wayne State – 2010 Preview’

Final 2009 Northern Sun D2 College Baseball Poll

Published June 5, 2009 College Baseball , College Baseball Polls , College Baseball Rankings , D2 Baseball , Division 2 College Baseball , Division ii Baseball , NCAA College Baseball , Northern Sun Conference Baseball , Northern Sun D2 Baseball Poll , Wayne State Baseball Leave a Comment

Each week during the 2009 NCAA Division 2 college baseball season the Northern Sun Baseball blog combined the 3 primary D2 baseball polls into 1 composite ranking. This week 2 of the 3 ranking services put out their year end polls so it seems appropriate to combine those into 1 final composite poll for the year.

Lynn University is the unanimous choice as the #1 team in Division II baseball with their run to the 2009 NCAA D2 Championship. Emporia State, the 2nd place team, was #2 in both polls.

In fact, as might be expected, the 2 polls are the most similar they’ve been all year. All 8 teams that made it to the D2 College World Series cracked the Top 10. The 2 teams in the Top 10 that didn’t make it there were both teams that eventual champion Lynn had to beat in the South Regional to reach the World Series.

For the Northern Sun Conference, Wayne State (NE) cracked the Top 30 in the #30 position.

College Baseball News Poll

Ping!Baseball Poll

Northern Sun D2 College Baseball Poll – 4/21/09

Published April 21, 2009 College Baseball , College Baseball Polls , College Baseball Rankings , D2 Baseball , Division 2 College Baseball , Division ii Baseball , Minnesota State Baseball , Northern Sun Conference Baseball , Northern Sun D2 Baseball Poll , St. Cloud State Baseball , Wayne State Baseball 1 Comment

Each week, the Northern Sun Baseball Blog combines the 3 primary Division 2 College Baseball Poll’s into 1 composite ranking.

Southern Arkansas remains as the #1 team in this week’s Northern Sun D2 College Baseball poll as they swept the top spot in all 3 polls. There was major upheaval in this week’s poll as a number of highly ranked teams had poor weeks on the field. In addition, we had been seeing the polls coming closer together a few weeks ago but they seem to be diverging in opinions over the last couple weeks.

Emporia State moves up from #5 to #2 this week. They were ranked #3 in all 3 polls but because the Ping poll moved Mesa State down so far it allowed Emporia to grab the 2nd spot. Barry moves up to #3 with Mesa State and West Chester rounding out the top 5.

Florida Southern took a huge tumble, falling all the way from #2 to #12. Grand Valley State took a similar dive going from #4 to #15.

On the divergent opinion side you have teams like SC – Aiken getting top 10 rankings in 2 polls but being left out of the Ping poll. You have Delta State at #5, #20 and not rated and you have Central Missouri at #7, #29 and not rated. Among the top 30 teams only 18 of them made it onto all 3 Top 30 rankings.

The Northern Sun Conference is represented as Wayne State (NE) moved all the way up to #12 on the NCBWA poll and is sitting at #21 in the composite poll after not making the Top 30 last week. Minnesota State and St. Cloud State received votes but not enough to make the Top 30.