Kyle Wooden - Guilford (past national BA leader was 3rd this season and again made 2nd team All-America)

Top 6 teams qualify for ODAC tourney.  Looks like barring a complete collapse VW should be fine for that.  Bridgewater has really stepped up the past few weeks.  Lynchburg needs to take care of business at Roanoke today or they could be in some trouble.  I wouldn't be at all surprised if one of the teams in the pack gets gets hot like W&L did in 2009 and carries that momentum in the conf tourney and ultimately the NCAAs. 

Nice call on EMU, very impressive couple wins at VW.  VW has wins over NCW and Salisbury this season so its not like they aren't playing well.  Lynchburg is the team to beat in the ODAC but teams like EMU, Roanoke and Guilford picked near the bottom are able to compete with anyone in the conference. It really is wide open in the ODAC.

Johnny West, Hampden-Sydney had a nice outing vs Bridgewater this weekend.  He's 2-1 this season and has logged about 35% of their innings.  15 Ks/2 BB in 22 innings.

Good luck to the Mighty Macs the rest of the season.  In my humble opinion they have faced the toughest part of their schedule and are well prepared for their conference season.  As far as playing some teams close for all or part of a game that just sounds like baseball to me. I'm sure they will get their first win very soon.

USAC is certainly backing up its reputation as one of the best baseball conferences is D3.  I have got ODAC ties, but its tough not to give USAC credit where credit is due.  Look at AU at 11-3, they were picked to basically be near the bottom of the conference, and they may end up there, but they are tough.  Immaculta played its first college baseball game ever this week at Methodist.  Ouch!  welcome to D3 baseball..

There is already something out there, which we're all familiar with, its called RPI.  We'll be hearing a lot in a few weeks when the NCAA D1 tourney selection committee meets.  Just looking at a teams opponents won-loss record is a flawed analysis.  You have to go a step further and use the RPI formula which includes the Opponents' Opponents won-loss record.  This is a much more accurate way of determing strength of schedule

The exact formula for determining the RPI of a team at any given time is as follows:

RPI = (WP * .25) + (OWP * .50) + (OOWP * .25)

Where WP is Winning Percentage, OWP is Opponents' Winning Percentage and OOWP is Opponents' Opponents' Winning Percentage

Guilford vs Methodist scheduled for today at Guilford postponed due to snow and sleet.  Lets hope it clears up so Lynchburg and Guilford can play in Greensboro on Saturday.  Spring is just around the corner...

ODAC goes 4-2 on Saturday 2/20 with 8 games scheduled today.  With the top to bottom quality in the conference it seems it will be a great race this season.

Nice win for Hampden Sydney.  ODAC appears wide open.  Lynchburg looks to be strong again but I'll won't be able to make any accurate predictions for another couple months... 

Piedmont-Guilford Sat-Sun games at Piedmont were moved to Sun-Mon.  Forecast is sunny and 40s.  Piedmont has a great facility and they will move heaven and earth to get those games in.  Sunny and 40s sounds like February baseball...

CNU has their 3 games listed on their schedule:

USA South ODAC Challenge
2/13-14/2010    Guilford  Richmond, VA 3:00  Details 
2/13-14/2010    Lynchburg  Richmond, VA 11:00  Details 
2/14-14/2010    Washington-Lee  Richmond, VA 5:00  Details 

Looks like 3 good ballgames

Kyle Wooden - Guilford College - MINK League - St Joseph (MO) Mustangs.  Mustangs are off to an 8-2 start.

Someone take Drew Hedman.  I thought he would go in the first 25 rounds...