NCAA Baseball
Conference Rank
2010

This is a 'scorecard' by conference for 2010, the 12-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 over, 8 teams are on to Omaha.

Here is the 'histogram' of the success rate for the 2010 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             8            2    1    3     2     swept first day games
    ACC             8       1         3    2     2     strong, but NC State BBQ'd
    Pac-10          8       2    2    2          2     Wow! Pac-10 is almost back
    Big-12          5            1    2    1     1     solid as usual
    Big East        3            1    2                .
    Southern        3       1    1    1                .
    SunBelt         3       1    1    1                .
    Mountain West   2            1               1     TCU eliminates Texas
    Big West        2                 1    1           .
    Conf USA        2            1    1                .
    Big South       1                      1           only Coastal Carolina ?
    Big Ten         1                 1                strong showing by Minnesota
    WAC             1                 1                .
    Summit          1            1                     .
    West Coast AC   1            1                     .
    Atlantic Sun    1            1                     .
    America East    1            1                     .
    Mo-Valley       1            1                     .
    Ivy             1            1                     knocked out Sun Belt champ
    Colonial        1       1                          .
    Southland       1       1                          .
    Patriot         1       1                          .
    MAC             1       1                          .
    Ohio Valley     1       1                          .
    Atlantic-10     1       1                          .
    Metro Atlantic  1       1                          .
    Horizon         1       1                          .
    SWAC            1       1                          .
    MEAC            1       1                          .
    Northeast       1       1                          .
    Great West      0       x                          new conference this season
    independent     0       x                          Longwood or Dallas Baptist?