I’m trying to gather some information for another post I want to make, who would you say has the best baseball team/attendance for non power 5 schools, some that come to mind are:

Coastal Carolina
Louisiana
Southern Miss
Rice
Cal state Fullerton
UCSB
Long Beach state
Hawaii
Creighton
Houston
East Carolina

(12-11-2020 12:05 PM)Cajuns1252 Wrote:  I’m trying to gather some information for another post I want to make, who would you say has the best baseball team/attendance for non power 5 schools, some that come to mind are:

Coastal Carolina
Louisiana
Southern Miss
Rice
Cal state Fullerton
UCSB
Long Beach state
Hawaii
Creighton
Houston
East Carolina

Recently, St. John's has been quite strong. Also from the Big East and worth noting: UConn and Xavier

From the American: Wichita and Tulane

Dallas Baptist

I protest the use of the term p5 in connection with college baseball.

Using Power 5 in terms of Baseball is ridiculous.......

What's the time period of your question?

If it's "all time best", then Fullerton is far ahead of anyone else. 17 CWS appearances and 4 national championships.

If it's "last 5 years", then it's much different. Coastal Carolina has a title, Fullerton and UC Santa Barbara have one CWS appearance each, and beyond that you'd want to dive into the tournament brackets to look at who has the most NCAA tournament appearances and most games won in the tournament.

If you want to base it on computer rankings, Boyd's World has those going back more than 20 years.

(12-11-2020 03:18 PM)Wedge Wrote:  What's the time period of your question?

If it's "all time best", then Fullerton is far ahead of anyone else. 17 CWS appearances and 4 national championships.

If it's "last 5 years", then it's much different. Coastal Carolina has a title, Fullerton and UC Santa Barbara have one CWS appearance each, and beyond that you'd want to dive into the tournament brackets to look at who has the most NCAA tournament appearances and most games won in the tournament.

If you want to base it on computer rankings, Boyd's World has those going back more than 20 years.

I’m looking for roughly the last 10 years or so.

The use of "power" to describe baseball conferences is clearly awkward — for multiple reasons.

Regarding the P5 in football and as it relates to baseball, the SEC has become dominant in the sport the past 10 years — thus creating a separation. And the Big Ten is as strong as it should be given its powerful position in college sports. The ACC is likely No. 2 but the Pac-12 offers various quality programs. The Big 12 is very solid.

The American and Big West have also been strong — and nationally relevant — historically.

After the "top seven," it dips a bit.

DI Baseball did a top 100 programs of the past 10 years (as I interpret it) in 2019. The findings:

• The SEC leads all conferences with 14 teams in the Top 100. This marks the first time any conference has placed each of its members in the Top 100. The SEC also occupies each of the top four spots in the rankings. Six SEC teams landed in the top 11, and 10 SEC teams are in the top 30.

• Here’s the full conference-by-conference breakdown: ACC (12 of 14 teams landed in the Top 100), Pac-12 (9 of 11), Big Ten (8 of 13), Big 12 (7 of 9), American (6 of 9), Big West (5 of 9), Conference USA (5 of 12), WCC (4 of 10), Sun Belt (4 of 12), Mountain West (3 of 7), Missouri Valley (3 of 8).

* The A-10, Atlantic Sun, Big East, Big South, CAA, Horizon and Southland had two teams apiece in the Top 100, while the NEC, OVC, Patriot, SoCon, Summit and WAC landed one team apiece on the list.

* Overall, 24 different conferences are represented.

(12-11-2020 04:06 PM)bill dazzle Wrote:  The use of "power" to describe baseball conferences is clearly awkward — for multiple reasons.

Regarding the P5 in football and as it relates to baseball, the SEC has become dominant in the sport the past 10 years — thus creating a separation. And the Big Ten is as strong as it should be given its powerful position in college sports. The ACC is likely No. 2 but the Pac-12 offers various quality programs. The Big 12 is very solid.

The American and Big West have also been strong — and nationally relevant — historically.

After the "top seven," it dips a bit.

DI Baseball did a top 100 programs of the past 10 years (as I interpret it) in 2019. The findings:

• The SEC leads all conferences with 14 teams in the Top 100. This marks the first time any conference has placed each of its members in the Top 100. The SEC also occupies each of the top four spots in the rankings. Six SEC teams landed in the top 11, and 10 SEC teams are in the top 30.

• Here’s the full conference-by-conference breakdown: ACC (12 of 14 teams landed in the Top 100), Pac-12 (9 of 11), Big Ten (8 of 13), Big 12 (7 of 9), American (6 of 9), Big West (5 of 9), Conference USA (5 of 12), WCC (4 of 10), Sun Belt (4 of 12), Mountain West (3 of 7), Missouri Valley (3 of 8).

* The A-10, Atlantic Sun, Big East, Big South, CAA, Horizon and Southland had two teams apiece in the Top 100, while the NEC, OVC, Patriot, SoCon, Summit and WAC landed one team apiece on the list.

* Overall, 24 different conferences are represented.

Y’all all know what I mean I don’t want the beating around the bush, if you don’t want to list teams that’s fine, it’s obviously for another post I’m trying to create if you can’t contribute move on.