NCAA Baseball
Conference Rank
2013

This is a 'scorecard' by conference for 2013, the 15-th for the 64-team playoff system where every well-established 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 complete.
LSU (SEC, N4 seed) and UCLA (Pac-12, beat N5 seed) are first into CWS.

Here is the 'histogram' of the success rate for the 2011 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       1    2    2    2     2     5 losses on 4-5 first day
    ACC             8            2    2    2     2     only a 5-3 start
    Pac-12          4                 2          2     strong, with perfect 4-0 start
    SunBelt         4            1    3                2-2 start but FAU beat N1 UNC
    Big-12          3                 1    2           solid, deserved more? 
    Big West        3            2         1           perfect 3-0 start
    Colonial        3            2    1                over rated? 
    Big East        2            1               1     perfect first day; UL beats N2 Vanderbilt
    Big Ten         2            1               1     perfect start; IU beats N7 Florida State
    Southland       2            1    1                Central Ark gets best-4-seed prize
    West Coast AC   2            1    1                bad 0-2 start
    Big South       2       1         1                Liberty knocked out Clemson
    Mountain West   2       2                          bad 0-2 start, bad finish
    Atlantic Sun    2       2                          bad 0-2 start, bad finish
    Conf USA        1                      1           Rice upset N8 seed Oregon twice
    Ohio Valley     1                 1                Austin-Peay beat Florida
    Southern        1                 1                .
    Northeast       1            1                     upset Arkansas
    Horizon         1            1                     upset Florida
    Ivy             1            1                     Columbia gets 1st tourney win
    America East    1       1                          .
    MAC             1       1                          .
    Mo-Valley       1       1                          Wichita St is back, and gone
    WAC             1       1                          .
    Summit          1       1                          .
    Atlantic-10     1       1                          .
    Patriot         1       1                          .
    Metro Atlantic  1       1                          Last regional win was in 2006
    SWAC            1       1                          Last got a tourney win in 2004
    MEAC            1       1                          ONLY regional win was in 2002
    Great West      0       -                          NO AUTOMATIC BID (new in 2010)
    independent     0       -                          only New Orleans this year