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TCU Media Relations recently sat down with Jim Scholossnagle to discuss how the fall schedule went and his expectations for the 2010 season. TCU made the Austin Super Regional where they pushed Texas to an elimination game before bowing out of the NCAA Tournament. You can check out the full article below.

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Tags: Interviews with Coaches, Mountain West, TCU

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Baseball America has put out their incoming 2010 Recruiting Class Rankings which are led by the University of Florida. Stanford comes in at the runner up spot with Arizona State, TCU, and Cal-State Fullerton completing the Top 5.

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Tags: 2010 Recruits, ACC, Arizona State, Baseball America, Big 12, Big Ten, Big West, Cal State Fullerton, Central Florida, Clemson, Conference USA, Florida, Kentucky, Louisville, Miami (FL), Michigan, Mississippi State, Missouri, Mountain West, NC State, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Oregon, Oregon State, Pac 10, Rice, SEC, Stanford, TCU, Tennessee, Texas, UCLA, UNC, Vanderbilt, Virginia

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Rivals.com College Baseball editor Kendall Rogers has put out an article detailing five programs that are rising in prestige and five that are starting to fall off the map. The programs that he sees coming on are: TCU, Virginia, East Carolina, Kansas and Ohio State. The five programs that are starting to fall are: Arizona, Baylor, Tulane, Nebraska, and California. He has some interesting commentary on each team as I can see his reasoning on all the programs except for one in Baylor.

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Tags: ACC, Arizona, Baylor, Big 12, Big Ten, Cal, Conference USA, East Carolina, Kansas, Mountain West, Nebraska, Ohio State, Pac 10, Rivals, TCU, Tulane, Virginia

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The CBB continues our countdown for the 2010 College Baseball season by checking in on the Top 100 Players in the country. We will be providing one player per day until we reach number 1.

We continue the list today with number 97 in our countdown with TCU sophomore infielder Taylor Featherston. He comes from Katy, Texas where he attended Taylor High School where he attended Taylor High School. He was a three year letter winner and was rated the 28th best prospect in Texas by Baseball America.

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Tags: 2010 Top Players, CBB 2010 Top 100 Players, CBB Column, Mountain West, NECBL, TCU

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Kendall Rogers of Rivals continues his series of articles on conferences with the Mountain West conference. The teams in the conference are looking to build on the national media attention that came to them last season as Stephen Strasburg was a member of the San Diego State Aztecs. They were not the only team from the conference to get a bid to the NCAA tourney as TCU made the Super Regional in Austin and Utah won the Mountain West conference tournament to get in.

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Tags: Air Force, BYU, Fall Ball, Mountain West, New Mexico, Rivals, San Diego State, TCU, UNLV, Utah

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Many schools have started up fall ball over the last few days including CWS contender Florida State who is trying to make it farther then the Super Regionals this season. You can check out the the full list below.

UNC-Greensboro kicks off Fall Practice

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Head coach Mike Gaski and the UNC Greensboro baseball team recently kicked off fall practice as the Spartans start looking ahead towards the 2010 campaign in the spring.

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Tags: ACC, Auburn, Big East, Fall Ball, Florida State, Mountain West, Pittsburgh, SEC, South Alabama, Southern Conference, Sun Belt, TCU, UNC-Greensboro

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Head coach Jim Schlossnagle has announced the 2010 TCU baseball schedule.  The Horned Frogs advanced to the school’s first ever Super Regional appearance last season which saw them come within a game of the College World Series.

TCU will host Sam Houston State (Feb. 19-21) for a three game set at Lupton Stadium to begin the season before hitting the road for a mid-week game at Baylor (Feb. 23) and a weekend set at west coast power Cal State Fullerton (Feb. 26-28).

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Tags: 2010 Schedules, Mountain West, TCU

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Kendall Rogers of Rivals.com continues his excellent coverage of College Baseball by looking at five freshmen who might be able to make an immediate impact on their college program in 2010.

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Tags: 2010 Recruits, ACC, Arizona State, Big Ten, Michigan, Mountain West, Pac 10, Stanford, TCU, Virginia

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

FORT WORTH, Texas - Head baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle announced the addition of 14 members to the baseball team. Highlighting the recruiting class are 2009 first-year Major League draft picks Matt Purke from Klein High School in Houston, Round Rock-native Josh Elander and Jerome Pena of Cave Creek, Ariz.

The class of 14 features nine high school players and five junior college transfers.

Purke, a left-handed pitcher, was the 14th overall pick in the draft by the Texas Rangers out of Klein High School in Houston. The Washington Nationals drafted Elander, a catcher from Round Rock, in the 37th round. A utility player, Pena transfers to TCU from Western Nevada Community College and was selected in the 40th round by the New York Mets.

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Tags: 2010 Recruits, Mountain West, TCU

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FROM TEAM USA RELEASE
(CARY, N.C.) – Bryce Brentz (Middle Tennessee State) went 3-3 with a solo home run and the Blue Team picked up a 3-1 win over the Red Team at the USA Baseball National Team (Collegiate) Trials at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, N.C.

Brentz wasted little time as he kicked off the scoring in the top of the second inning with a 390 foot home run to left centerfield on Red Team starter Drew Pomeranz (Mississippi) for the early 1-0 lead. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009 Team USA, ACC, Baylor, Conference USA, Florida State, Miami (FL), Middle Tennessee, Mountain West, Ohio Valley Conference, Ole Miss, Pac 10, Rice, SEC, TCU, Tennessee, Tulane, UCLA

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Here are some of the best links from Around the Nation over the last few days.

The first article comes from the Fort Worth Star Telegram which has an excellent feature on TCU signee and Texas Rangers draft pick Matthew Purke. The next article comes from the Austin-American Statesman which has a feature on Everett Williams who has signed with Texas but was selected by the San Diego Padres. The next article comes from Ted Miller of ESPN.com who talks about the 1-2 combination for the Arizona State Sun Devils rotation. The next article comes from NBC29.com which says the Virginia Cavaliers are in the finals to win it. They also have some audio from Coach O’Connor. The Hattiesburg American talks about Southern Miss taking the step to become a better program by making it to the CWS. Arkansas360.com has a great article on Arkansas’ Ben Tschepikow’s return to college baseball. Heather Dinich of ESPN.com has a good article on LSU RHP Louis Coleman’s return to the program after turning down pro offers. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ACC, Arizona State, Arkansas, Big 12, Conference USA, Links, LSU, Mountain West, Pac 10, SEC, Southern Miss, TCU, Texas, Virginia

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

AUSTIN, Texas – Freshman Taylor Jungmann allowed two hits over six innings Monday night and top-seeded Texas earned its first trip to the College World Series since 2005 with a 5-2 win over TCU.

Kevin Keyes homered in the first inning for the Longhorns (46-14-1), who have won six national championships. Jungmann struck out five and walked one in picking up his eighth win of the season before being replaced by Austin Wood in the bottom of the seventh. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009 Austin Super Regional, 2009 CWS, 2009 NCAA Tourney, Big 12, Mountain West, TCU, Texas