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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Academic D3 schools are indeed the best athletically among D3 schools for many sports.[/quote]

[b]Unfortunately Baseball isn't one of those sports. [/b]There are a few high academic D3 baseball powers (Hopkins, CMS, Pomona-Pitzer, Denison) but it isn't like many other sports where there is significant overlap between D1 and D3 for high academic schools.

In many sports for example the bottom of the Ivy League overlaps with the top of the Patriot League and the bottom of the Patriot League overlaps with the top of the NESCAC creating a situation where a very goods player with excellent academics could end up with interesting choices. I am using the NESCAC as a proxy for NESCAC, UAA, and some schools from other conferences here. We all know the schools.[/quote]

Agreed that the Academic D3 schools don't tend to win the Baseball CWS, but the academic D3 schools were well-represented in the round of 64 this year.  The UAA league (Emory, Chicago, WashU, Case, Brandeis & NYU) had 4 teams make the post-season (all but Brandeis/NYU) and Hopkins was the #1 seeded college all throughout the season and the #1 seed in the final group of 8.

Of course this is like any other college tournament where the winner of various divisions automatically gets a bid...so you always have a NESCAC make it, you have the winner of the league that Pomona/CMC play, etc....so it's interesting to see which leagues get a lot of at-large bids (which this year was the UAA as Case was the winner of that division).[/quote]

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