By DR. BARRY DAVIS Head Baseball Coach Rider University LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. — In July 2024, 10,500 athletes will join one another in Paris, France to represent their country in the 33rd Summer Olympic Games. The opening ceremony is a spectacle on its own. On display will be the greatest athletes in the world. They all have one thing in common.  They all have a coach. Even great athletes like Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and Serena Williams hired coaches to improve their games. And coaching is not limited to athletes. There are speech coaches, drama coaches and life coaches. Coaching is cr ..read more

By LOU PAVLOVICH, JR. Editor/Collegiate Baseball TUCSON, Ariz. — For the first time in history, Arkansas has won Collegiate Baseball’s national recruiting championship. It is the 41st consecutive year Collegiate Baseball has evaluated NCAA Div. I recruiting classes. Athletes who initially signed letters of intent with a school but then signed a pro contract after being drafted do not count in the overall evaluation. Only athletes who came to school this fall are factored in. The Razorbacks landed a star-studded class that features 24 newcomers, including 14 freshmen, nine 4-year transfers and ..read more

The NCAA Baseball Rules Committee has recommended that conferences on all levels of NCAA baseball consider expanding bat testing to each game day before the start of contests for the 2024 season. Collegiate Baseball feels it is a superb plan of action. According to the NCAA Div. I Baseball Statistics Trends report, there were more home runs hit per game per team (1.14) last season than in the past 54 years going back to 1970. That was the first year such records began being kept. It interesting to note that 1974 was the first year aluminum bats were introduced into college baseball. It also i ..read more

By LOU PAVLOVICH, JR. Editor/Collegiate Baseball ATHENS, Ga. — University of Georgia Head Coach Wes Johnson is one of the  most innovative pitching minds in baseball. The former pitching coach for the Minnesota Twins for 3 ½ years and pitching coach for LSU’s national championship team in 2023 has been focused on finding everything that will make each of his pitchers thrive. He draws from a buffet of areas, including mobility testing, mental, biomechanical, analytics and video analysis. He has always been fascinated with the dominant finger on pitches and closely monitors that action for ..read more

TUCSON, Ariz. — Louisiana State Head Baseball Coach Jay Johnson has been named Collegiate Baseball’s National Coach of The Year. He led the Tigers to their seventh national baseball championship at the recent College World Series. LSU posted a 54-17 overall record as the Tigers walloped Florida, 18-4 for the title behind a 24-hit attack. The Tigers posted 11 wins during the NCAA post-season, six of them against SEC teams. After a 3-2 loss to No. 1 seed Wake Forest early in the College World Series, Johnson’s Tigers came through the loser’s bracket by eliminating Tennessee before earning cons ..read more

The 2023 High School All-American team, chosen by Collegiate Baseball and powered by Diamond Sports, features a remarkable group of talented athletes. This year’s team has a number of potential high round MLB Draft picks. Many have already received national honors on various All-American teams. Others have played for Team USA or participated in high profile summer showcases. The team is headlined by OF Max Clark of Franklin Community HS (IN) who is Collegiate Baseball’s National High School Player of the Year. He was expected to be the first high school player chosen in this year’s MLB Draft ..read more

Collegiate Baseball is your source for current information on each of college baseball’s major tournaments. Click on any of the links below for information on these championships: NCAA Div. I Championship: • Conference Tournaments Predicting 33 At-Large Teams For NCAA Division I Baseball Collegiate Baseball Top 30 Poll Latest NCAA Div. I Scores Latest NCAA Div. I Conference Standings Latest NCAA Div. I National Statistics Warren Nolan RatingsRPI Live RPI Conference Rankings RPI Nitty Gritty Report RPI Team Sheets Predicted RPI Predicted RPI Nitty Gritty Report Predicted RPI Team Sheets ELO Ra ..read more

By LOU PAVLOVICH, JR.Editor/Collegiate Baseball INDIANAPOLIS — For the first time in college or professional baseball history, a pitcher not only threw a no-hitter but hit for the cycle in the same game. This remarkable achievement was accomplished by LHP/DH Brady Ware of the University of Indianapolis during a 14-0, 7-inning win over Drury. The graduate student from Poway, Calif. fired the first no-hitter for the Greyhounds since Jordan Tackett in 2015 while completing the school’s first cycle since Jake Hartley in 2013. He fired a 7-inning complete game with 11 strikeouts. Batting fourth in ..read more

By LOU PAVLOVICH, JR.Editor/Collegiate Baseball COLUMBIA, S.C. — In the history of college baseball, nobody has ever built a running game as potent as Coach Selwyn Young at Benedict College. The NCAA Baseball Record Book (Division 2 section) lists the amazing accomplishments of his program: • No. 1 in total stolen bases in one season (334 in 41 games in 2013). • No. 1 in stolen bases per game (8.15 in 2013 season). • No. 1 in stolen bases in one game (26 in just 6 innings against Morris College in 2023). • Of the top six NCAA Div. 2 base stealing leaders per game, Benedict holds the top six s ..read more

By LOU PAVLOVICH, JR. Editor/Collegiate Baseball LOS ANGELES — Pitching command is one of the most elusive and cherished skills in baseball. In every generation, there seems to be a hurler with exceptional control of his pitches. One of the greatest pitchers in Major League history was Orel Hershiser who constantly hit his spots over a marvelous Major League career that stretched over 18 seasons, including 13 with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He still holds the Major League record for most consecutive scoreless innings pitched with 59 during the 1988 season. Known for his fierce competitive spiri ..read more