NCAA Baseball
Conference Rank
2005

This is a 'scorecard' by conference for 2005, the 7-th for the 64-team playoff system where every conference gets an automatic bid. You can find the full results elsewhere.

My original motivation for this summary was the thought that the regionals are a major source of inter-conference and inter-region play that helps one evaluate the relative strength and (possibly) future seedings of teams from various regions and conferences.

Current status: Super Regionals are complete.

Here is the 'histogram' of the success rate for the 2005 NCAA regionals.

I tally a Regional champion under "win" and the Super-Regional champion (the team that goes to the CWS) under "champ" so the "champ" column is unchanged from the older 48-team system.


                           ------ wins ------
    Conference    Number    0    1    2+  win  champ   comments
    ==========    ======   ===  ===  ===  ===  =====   -----------------
    SEC             9                 6    1     2     swept first round !
    ACC             7       1    2         4           #7 went BBQ (overrated)
    Big-12          5            1    1          3     very strong at the top
    Pac-10          5                 2    1     2     west coast is strong
    Conf USA        4       2    1               1     overrated ?
    Big West        2            1         1           .
    Big East        2                 2                St. John's did OK
    Mo-Valley       2                 2                .
    Big South       2            1    1                .
    Big Ten         2            2                     .
    Atlantic Sun    2       1    1                     .
    Southern        2       1    1                     .
    Southland       2       1    1                     .
    SunBelt         2       1    1                     .
    WAC             1                      1           .
    Mid-Continent   1                 1                .
    West Coast AC   1                 1                .
    America East    1            1                     .
    MAC             1            1                     .
    Mountain West   1            1                     .
    Patriot         1            1                     .
    Atlantic-10     1       1                          .
    Colonial        1       1                          .
    Horizon         1       1                          .
    Ivy             1       1                          .
    Metro Atlantic  1       1                          .
    MEAC            1       1                          .
    Northeast       1       1                          .
    Ohio Valley     1       1                          .
    SWAC            1       1                          .
    independent     0       -                          Miami now in ACC !