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Ongoing projects in College Baseball

The postseason coaching carousel is winding down and we're finalizing 2019 pages. While you continue to work on these during the offseason, we hope you'll also consider helping us with projects of broader and historical interest. Many of these projects have navboxes with redlinks that need to be filled in. Some of our biggest needs are listed below. Please help us expand coverage of College Baseball!

CWS participants

Many editors (most notably Mizzou415 Billcasey905 and DMC511) have helped us to start season pages for CWS Champions and runners up. Our next effort will be to create season pages for each CWS participant. This will be a heavier lift, of course, so please see the table below for remaining CWS season pages needed and adopt a program:

Team	Appearances	Complete	Remaining	Seasons
Alabama	5	5	0
Arizona	17	17	0
Arizona State	22	22	0
Arkansas	9	8	1	1985
Auburn	4	0	4	1967, 1976, 1994, 1997
Baylor	3	1	2	1977, 1978
Boston College	4	4	0
Bradley	2	2	0
BYU	2	0	2	1968, 1971
Cal State Fullerton	18	18	0
Cal State Los Angeles	1	1	0
California	6	3	3	1980, 1988, 1992
The Citadel	1	1	0
Clemson	13	13	0
Colgate	1	1	0
Colorado State	1	1	0
UConn	5	5	0
Creighton	1	0	1	1991
Dartmouth	1	1	0
Delaware	1	0	1	1970
Duke	3	3	0
Eastern Michigan	2	1	1	1975
Florida	12	10	2	1988, 1991
Florida State	22	22	0
Fresno State	4	4	0
Georgia	6	2	4	1987, 2001, 2004, 2006
Georgia Southern	2	0	2	1973, 1990
Georgia Tech	3	1	2	2002, 2006
Harvard	4	0	4	1968, 1971, 1973, 1974
Holy Cross	4	4	0
Houston	2	2	0
Indiana	1	1	0
Indiana State	1	0	1	1986
Iowa	1	1	0
Iowa State	2	2	0
Ithaca	1	1	0
James Madison	1	0	1	1983
Kansas	1	0	1	1993
Kent State	1	1	0
Lafayette	4	4	0
Long Beach State	4	0	4	1989, 1991, 1993, 1998
Louisiana	1	0	1	2000
Louisville	4	3	1	2007
Loyola Marymount	1	0	1	1986
LSU	18	18	0
Maine	7	0	7	1964, 1976, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986
UMass	2	2	0
Miami (FL)	25	25	0
Michigan	7	7	0
Michigan State	1	1	0
Minnesota	5	5	0
Mississippi State	10	3	7	1971, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1990, 1997, 1998
Missouri	6	6	0
Missouri State	1	0	1	2003
NC State	2	1	1	1968
Nebraska	3	3	0
New Hampshire	1	1	0
New Orleans	1	0	1	1984
North Carolina	11	11	0
Northeastern	1	0	1	1966
Northern Colorado	10	10	0
Notre Dame	2	2	0
NYU	2	2	0
Ohio	1	0	1	1970
Ohio State	4	4	0
Oklahoma	10	10	0
Oklahoma State	20	20	0
Ole Miss	5	5	0
Oral Roberts	1	0	1	1978
Oregon	1	1	0
Oregon State	7	7	0
Penn State	5	5	0
Pepperdine	2	1	1	1979
Princeton	1	1	0
Rice	7	1	6	1997, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008
Rider	1	0	1	1967
Rutgers	1	1	0
Saint Louis	1	0	1	1965
San Jose State	1	0	1	2000
Seton Hall	4	4	0
South Carolina	11	7	4	1981, 1982, 1985, 2003
Southern California	21	21	0
Southern Illinois	5	2	3	1969, 1974, 1977
Southern Miss	1	0	1	2009
Springfield	2	2	0
St. John's	6	6	0
Stanford	16	16	0
Stony Brook	1	1	0
Syracuse	1	1	0
TCU	5	5	0
Temple	2	0	2	1972, 1977
Tennessee	4	1	3	1995, 2001, 2005
Texas	36	36	0
Texas A&M	6	6	0
Texas Tech	3	3	0
Tufts	1	1	0
Tulane	2	0	2	2001, 2005
Tulsa	2	1	1	1971
UC Irvine	2	1	1	2007
UCLA	5	5	0
UC Santa Barbara	1	1	0
Utah	1	1	0
UTRGV	1	0	1	1971
Vanderbilt	3	3	0
Virginia	4	4	0
Washington	1	1	0
Washington State	4	4	0
Western Michigan	6	6	0
Wichita State	7	4	3	1988, 1992, 1996
Wisconsin	1	1	0
Wyoming	1	1	0

Venues

We are trying to create a page for each Division I baseball venue. We have run into issues with notability of stadiums housing small programs, so please ensure you create an article citing independent sources - not just the program's web page. An easy place to find this is newspaper articles covering renovations, upgrades, and tournaments. Conferences not listed below are complete.

Coaches

As we are at the season end for many teams, make sure we keep an eye on creating an article for each current Division I head coach. I have been keeping up as best as I can using this link. Follow this page too if you're interested in helping: List of current NCAA Division I baseball coaches.

Please help us to fill in the navboxes listed here: User:Corkythehornetfan/sandbox

Conference Tournaments

Create a page for each season of active conference tournaments. Not all conferences have a navbox for their tournament yet. Feel free to create one if you wish to fill it in. Those with a navbox are linked below with the number of redlinks, those without a navbox link to the tournament page. Looking for years your team won? Check the main page of each tournament for a listing by school. Completed conferences (ACC, America East, American, Big 12, Big East, Big South, Big Ten, Big West, C-USA, MAAC, MAC, Mtn. West, NEC, Patriot, SEC, SoCon, WCC) are not included, nor is the Pac-12, which does not hold a tournament.

• {{Horizon League Baseball Tournament navbox}} - 31
• {{Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament navbox}} - 28
• Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Tournament - 58
• {{Ohio Valley Conference Baseball Tournament navbox}} - 33
• {{Southland Conference Baseball Tournament navbox}} - 11, 3 redirect
• {{Southwestern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament navbox}} - 35
• {{Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament navbox}} - 34
• {{Western Athletic Conference Baseball Championship navbox}} - 49

Program Pages

The following conference program navboxes have redirects. Please create a program page for those listed. The AEC, American, ACC, ASUN, A-10, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Big West, Horizon, MAAC, MAC, Missouri Valley, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, Southland, Summit, SWAC and Sun Belt are complete.

• {{Big South Conference baseball navbox}} - 5 (Charleston Southern, Gardner–Webb, Radford, UNC Asheville, USC Upstate)
• {{Colonial Athletic Association baseball navbox}} - 3 (Hofstra, Towson, UNC Wilmington)
• {{Conference USA baseball navbox}} - 4 (FIU, Middle Tennessee, UAB, Western Kentucky)
• {{Ivy League baseball navbox}} - 2 (Brown, Penn)
• {{Northeast Conference baseball navbox}} - 5 (Fairleigh Dickinson, LIU, Merrimack, Mount St. Mary's, Wagner)
• {{Ohio Valley Conference baseball navbox}} - 3 (Austin Peay State, Eastern Kentucky, Murray State)
• {{Patriot League baseball navbox}} - 2 (Bucknell, Lehigh)
• {{Southern Conference baseball navbox}} - 4 (East Tennessee State, Furman, UNC Greensboro, Western Carolina)
• {{Southwestern Athletic Conference baseball navbox}} - 2 (Bethune-Cookman, Florida A&M)
• {{West Coast Conference baseball navbox}} - 2 (Pacific, San Francisco)
• {{Western Athletic Conference baseball navbox}} - 4 (Dixie State, Seattle, Tarleton State, Utah Valley)

Requested move at Talk:Wendell Smith#Requested move 25 February 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Wendell Smith#Requested move 25 February 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 14:40, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

All-America Teams

There was a discussion back in 2012 of which selectors should be included in the College Baseball All-America Team articles. By the consensus back in 2012, there was a general agreement to use these 4 selectors. For years with 2 selectors, anyone on either lists makes it into the navbox. With 3 selectors, a player must appear twice, and with 4 selectors, a player must be on 3 lists. Since 2012, we've seen:

• Sites like Perfect Game and D1Baseball also name All-Americans, and those teams get attention from schools, just looking around on Google and social media. D1Baseball in particular comes up a lot.
  • Perfect Game goes back to at least 2011: [1]. I couldn't find any for 2010 or earlier.
  • D1Baseball goes back to at least 2015, although some of the earlier ones are behind a paywall. [2]
• Only Collegiate Baseball named a team in 2020.
• Collegiate Baseball shut down in November 2023, leaving us with only 4 selectors.

Years	ABCA	BA	CB	NCBWA	Selectors	For Consensus
1947 – 1980	Y				1
1981 – 1990	Y	Y			2
1991 – 2000	Y	Y	Y		3	2
2001 – 2019	Y	Y	Y	Y	4	3
2020			Y		1
2021 – 2023	Y	Y	Y	Y	4	3
2024 – present	Y	Y		Y	3	2

From the best I can tell (and we also came to this conclusion in 2012), the NCAA doesn't name its own official list of "consensus" All-Americans, but that term is commonly used by the media, so we chose the standards above. However, the most recent list of All-Americans from an official NCAA source is this one from 2013: [3], which only includes the 4 from the chart above.

Assuming we don't have a more recent "official" list from the NCAA since 2013 of which are official and which aren't, I recommend adding D1Baseball and Perfect Game, and recalculating the "consensus" accordingly. Thoughts? Jhn31 (talk) 02:48, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

I've been away for a while and am still only sporadically active, so take my opinion for what it's worth. I agree that with Collegiate Baseball's closure, we should add D1Baseball for certain and probably Perfect Game too. D1Baseball seems to have taken the mantle from Collegiate Baseball from many years ago, and seems to be the standard in covering the game. PerfectGame felt like it was primarily useful for recruiting and draft prep in the early years, but has definitely expanded their coverage as well. With four selectors, I'd define consensus as 3 selectors choosing the same player, with 5 I'm less sure on whether to stick with 3 or require 4. I guess put me down for 4, but I could be swayed. Billcasey905 (talk) 20:14, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

I sampled through several school's media guides, and it seems like they all include D1Baseball and Perfect Game among their All-America selectors. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

Many of them also include the College Baseball Foundation All-Americans since 2019. I'm not sure if the others are intentionally excluding this one or just happen to have not had any since then. Examples: 2019 2021 2022 etc.

So what to use for the "consensus" designation? I still can't find any official definition, but that term is used pretty often in media releases by schools, often with whatever definition looks good for their own players. Sometimes a player is a "consensus" All-American if he is on multiple lists, even if it's just 2nd or 3rd team! So I think the best approach is to look at how many players would be included as "consensus":

Currently for 2023, 15 of the 32 players meet the 3/4 standard. If we add D1B and PG, 13 will meet the 5/6 standard, or 17 will meet the 4/6 standard. Or if we also include the CBF, it will be 10 players with 6/7, 14 with 5/7 and 19 with 4/7.

Tommy White and Cade Denton meet 3/4 currently, but were not on the D1B or CBF 1st team lists. They are still listed as "consensus" All-Americans with their own universities: [14] [15]

Currently for 2024, 18 of 30 players meet the 2/3 standard. If we add D1B and PG, 13 will meet the 4/5 standard and 17 will meet the 3/5 standard. If we also include CBF, 11 will meet the 5/6 standard and 15 will meet the 4/6 standard.

So with all of that compiled, I think there is very strong reason to add D1Baseball and Perfect Game. I think CBF is up in the air, with some schools recognizing it and some not, but I lean toward including it since the CBF also has recognized awards like the National Pitcher of the Year Award, John Olerud Award, and Brooks Wallace Award. As for the standards of what constitutes "consensus," I think that's a tough one because media reporting is pretty inconsistent. Ultimately I fall back on a "majority" standard because going any higher than that often makes the "consensus" lists too small. I propose this overall standard:

Years	ABCA	BA	CB	CBF	D1B	NCBWA	PG	Selectors	For Consensus
1947 – 1980	Y							1	1
1981 – 1990	Y	Y						2	1
1991 – 2000	Y	Y	Y					3	2
2001 – 2010	Y	Y	Y			Y		4	3
2011 – 2014	Y	Y	Y			Y	Y	5	3
2015 – 2018	Y	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	6	4
2019	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	7	4
2020			Y					1	1
2021 – 2023	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	7	4
2024 – present	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	Y	6	4

Jhn31 (talk) 17:08, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

And I don't mean dominate the discussion here, but I noticed that media releases sometimes (but not universally) use the term "Unanimous All-American" to indicate players selected by every selector. We could consider shading the unanimous players differently in the yearly articles and navboxes. Just a thought: Jhn31 (talk) 23:48, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

Position	Name	School	ABCA	BA	CBF	D1	NCBWA	PG	Notes
Starting pitcher	Jamie Arnold	Florida State	Y	—	—	Y	Y	Y
Starting pitcher	Chase Burns	Wake Forest	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	ACC Pitcher of the Year

I went ahead and made some adjustments to these recent articles and, barring any objections, will do the same going all the way back to 1947:

• 2023 College Baseball All-America Team
• 2024 College Baseball All-America Team
• 2025 College Baseball All-America Team

Jhn31 (talk) 05:01, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

1948 - 1953 Tournaments and appearances

Right now, Wikipedia shows the tournaments from 1947 through 1953 as having 8 participants only, not recognizing appearances from the district tournaments from 1948 through 1953 like it does for 1954 through 1975. After reviewing schools' media guides, I think there is a strong case to be made that we do include them.

• Arizona Georgia Kentucky Mississippi State Ohio Oklahoma Rollins just to name a few, all make no distinguishing between these appearances and later District appearances.

I'm open to discussion either way, but I am considering adding updating the 6 tournament articles (1948 through 1953) to add in these district tournaments, which would then resemble the later years' pages, as well as adding these school's appearances on the overall NCAA Tournament page. Jhn31 (talk) 04:02, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

Images and color schemes in college sports navboxes

I recently opened a discussion about images and color schemes in college sports navboxes (like Template:Big Ten Conference navbox) at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football#Images and color schemes in college sports navboxes. This discussion applies to navboxes beyond just college football. We could use to more input to reach a clear consensus. Thanks, Jweiss11 (talk) 19:16, 6 February 2026 (UTC)