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1978 NCAA Division I Baseball Season
The 1978 NCAA Division I baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1978. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1978 College World Series. The College World Series, held for the thirty-second time in 1978, consisted of one team from each of eight regional competitions and was held in Omaha, Nebraska at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium as a double-elimination tournament. Southern California claimed the championship for the eleventh time. Conference winners This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1978 season. The NCAA sponsored regional competitions to determine the College World Series participants. Seven regionals of four teams and one of six each competed in double-elimination tournaments, with the winners advancing to Omaha. 21 teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference championship while 13 teams earned a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 USC Trojans Baseball Team
The 1978 USC Trojans baseball team represented the University of Southern California in the 1978 NCAA Division I baseball season. The team was coached Rod Dedeaux in his 37th season. The Trojans won the 1978 NCAA Division I baseball tournament, College World Series, defeating the 1978 Arizona State Sun Devils baseball team, Arizona State Sun Devils in the championship game for the Trojans eleventh and final national championship under Rod Dedeaux. Roster Schedule ! style="background:#FFCC00;color:#990000;", Regular season , - , - align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" , February 14 , , at , , 0–3 , , 0–1 , , – , - align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" , February 18 , , at , , 10–9 , , 1–1 , , – , - align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" , February 18 , , Cal State Fullerton , , 9–6 , , 2–1 , , – , - align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" , February 24 , , at , , 23–8 , , 3–1 , , – , - align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" , February 25 , , , , 9–2 , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 Big Eight Conference Baseball Tournament
Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd government). * January 6 – The Holy Crown of Hungary (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held since World War II. * January 10 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, a critic of the Nicaraguan government, is assassinated; riots erupt against Somoza's government. * January 18 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the British government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture. * January 22 – Ethiopia declares the ambassador of West Germany ''persona non grata''. * January 24 ** Soviet satellite Kosmos 954 burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. ** Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southwest Conference
The Southwest Conference (SWC) was an NCAA Division I college athletic conference in the United States that existed from 1914 to 1996. Composed primarily of schools from Texas, at various times the conference included schools from Oklahoma and Arkansas. For most of its history, the core members of the conference were Texas-based schools plus one in Arkansas: Baylor University, Rice University, Southern Methodist University, Texas A&M University, Texas Christian University, Texas Tech University, the University of Arkansas and the University of Texas at Austin. After a long period of stability, the conference's overall athletic prowess began to decline throughout the 1980s, due in part to numerous member schools violating NCAA recruiting rules, culminating in the suspension of the entire SMU football program ("death penalty") for the 1987 and 1988 seasons. Arkansas, after years of feeling like an outsider in the conference, left after the 1990–91 school year to join ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Conference
The Southern Conference (SoCon) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) NCAA Division I, Division I. Southern Conference College football, football teams compete in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision, Football Championship Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-AA). Member institutions are located in the states of Alabama, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Established in 1921, the Southern Conference ranks as the fifth-oldest major college athletic conference in the United States, and either the third- or fourth-oldest in continuous operation, depending on definitions. Among conferences currently in operation, the Big Ten Conference, Big Ten (1896) and Missouri Valley Conference, Missouri Valley (1907) are indisputably older. The Pac-12 Conference did not operate under its current charter until 1959, but claims the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville is the county seat of Alachua County, Florida, and the largest city in North Central Florida, with a population of 141,085 in 2020. It is the principal city of the Gainesville metropolitan area, which had a population of 339,247 in 2020. Gainesville is home to the University of Florida, the fourth-largest public university campus by enrollment in the United States as of the 2021–2022 academic year. History There is archeological evidence, from about 12,000 years ago, of the presence of Paleo Indians in the Gainesville area, although it is not known if there were any permanent settlements. A Deptford culture campsite existed in Gainesville and was estimated to have been used between 500 BCE and 100 CE. The Deptford people moved south into Paynes Prairie and Orange Lake during the first century and evolved into the Cades Pond culture. The Deptford people who remained in the Gainesville area were displaced by migrants from southern Georgia sometime in the seven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perry Field
Alfred A. McKethan Stadium at Perry Field was the college baseball stadium of the University of Florida, serving as the home field for the Florida Gators baseball team until being replaced by Florida Ballpark in 2020. McKethan Stadium was located on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus, in close proximity to the university's indoor sports arena, the Stephen C. O'Connell Center, and its football stadium, Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. Namesakes The stadium facility was named for Alfred A. McKethan, a University of Florida alumnus and successful Florida banker, businessman, and politician who contributed significant funds for the reconstruction and expansion of the stadium. McKethan donated the equivalent of $800,000 for the reconstruction and improvement of the stadium in the 1980s and 1990s. The playing field was named for Carl E. "Tootie" Perry, a former Florida Gators football player who was the Gators' first All-Southern selection in 1920 and 1921 and team capta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament
The 1978 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament was held at Perry Field in Gainesville, Florida Gainesville is the county seat of Alachua County, Florida, Alachua County, Florida, and the largest city in North Central Florida, with a population of 141,085 in 2020. It is the principal city of the Gainesville metropolitan area, Florida, Gaine ..., from May 12 through 15. won the tournament and earned the Southeastern Conference's automatic bid to the 1978 NCAA tournament. Regular-season results Tournament All-Tournament Team No MVP was named. See also * College World Series * NCAA Division I Baseball Championship * Southeastern Conference baseball tournament References SECSports.com All-Time Baseball Tournament Results {{SEC baseball tournament Tournament Southeastern Conference baseball tournament Southeastern Conference baseball tournament Southeastern Conference baseball tournament College baseball tournaments in Florida Baseball competiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southeastern Conference
The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the South Central and Southeastern United States. Its fourteen members include the flagship public universities of ten states, three additional public land-grant universities, and one private research university. The conference is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. The SEC participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I in sports competitions; for football it is part of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A. Members of the SEC have won many national championships: 43 in football, 21 in basketball, 41 in indoor track, 42 in outdoor track, 24 in swimming, 20 in gymnastics, 13 in baseball (College World Series), and one in volleyball. In 1992, the SEC was the first NCAA Division I conference to hold a championship game (and award a subsequent title) for football and was one of the fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific-8 Conference
The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference, that operates in the Western United States, participating in 24 sports at the NCAA Division I level. Its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly Division I-A), the highest level of college football in the nation. The conference's 12 members are located in the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. They include each state's flagship public university, four additional public universities, and two private research universities. The modern Pac-12 conference formed after the disbanding of the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC), whose principal members founded the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU) in 1959. The conference previously went by the names Big Five, Big Six, Pacific-8, and Pacific-10. The Pac-12 moniker was adopted in 2011 with the addition of Colorado and Utah. Nicknamed the "Conference of Championships", the Pac-12 has won more NCAA na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mid-American Conference
The Mid-American Conference (MAC) is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I collegiate athletic conference with a membership base in the Great Lakes region that stretches from Western New York to Illinois. Nine of the twelve full member schools are in Ohio and Michigan, with single members located in Illinois, Indiana, and New York. For football, the MAC participates in the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision. The MAC is headquartered in the Public Square district in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, and has two members in the nearby Akron area. The conference ranks highest among all ten NCAA Division I FBS conferences for graduation rates. History The five charter members of the Mid-American Conference were Ohio University, Butler University, the University of Cincinnati, Wayne University (now Wayne State University), and Western Reserve University, one of the predecessors to today's Case Western Reserve University. Wayne University left after the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League
The Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League was a baseball-only conference that existed from 1930 to 1992. It consisted of the eight Ivy League schools along with Army and Navy. The league disbanded after the 1992 season, when Army and Navy joined the Patriot League and the Ivy League began sponsoring baseball. Former members ;Notes: Membership timeline DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:1000 height:auto barincrement:20 Period = from:1929 till:1992 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:0 left:0 bottom:50 top:0 Colors = id:barcolor id:line value:black id:bg value:white id:closed value:rgb(0.66,0.66,0.66) id:CA value:rgb(0.61,0.87,1) id:PR value:rgb(1,0.56,0) id:YL value:rgb(0.06,0.3,0.57) id:HV value:rgb(0.79,0,0.09) id:PAR value:rgb(0.584,0,0.102) id:DA value:rgb(0.05,0.50,0.06) id:BR value:rgb(0.20,0.08,0.08) id:AR value:rgb(0.75,0.60,0.41) id:NV value:rgb(0.71,0.65,0.48) BackgroundColors = canvas:bg PlotData= width:15 textcolor:black shift:(5, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 Michigan Wolverines Baseball Team
The 1978 Michigan Wolverines baseball team represented the University of Michigan in the 1978 NCAA Division I baseball season. The head coach was Moby Benedict, serving his 16th year. The Wolverines finished the season in 5th place in the 1978 College World Series. Roster Schedule ! style="" , Regular season , - valign="top" , - align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" , 1 , , March 4 , , vs , , Unknown • Unknown , , 9–2 , , 1–0 , , 0–0 , - align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc" , 2 , , March 5 , , vs , , Unknown • Unknown , , 2–11 , , 1–1 , , 0–0 , - align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" , 3 , , March 5 , , vs Iowa State , , Unknown • Unknown , , 7–3 , , 2–1 , , 0–0 , - align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc" , 4 , , March 6 , , vs , , Unknown • Unknown , , 1–3 , , 2–2 , , 0–0 , - align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" , 5 , , March 7 , , vs Missouri , , Unknown • Unknown , , 6–4 , , 3–2 , , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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