Saturday Upsets Abound Nationwide

Ten different teams that were ranked in the national preseason top-35 (per the baseball writers, NCBWA) were upset on Saturday - including Cal Poly's doubleheader sweep of Rice - with most of the teams that pulled these upsets not being ranked anywhere in that preseason top-35:

at Cal Poly 10, Rice 3
at Cal Poly 7, Rice 6
Vanderbilt 12, at Staford 9 (Stanford won the other game, 6-5)
TCU 7, at Cal State Fullerton 5
Florida 10, Louisville 4
Rutgers 5, at Miami 4 (Miami won other game, 4-2)
Washington 11, at Fresno State 4
Pacific 9, at Baylor 8
Gonzaga 9, Missouri 3 (in Phoneix, AZ)
at Cal State Northridge 6, Pepperdine 2
Sacramento State 10, at Arizona 2

CollegeBaseball360's preseason projection for the 2009 NCAA Tournament 64-team field (compiled via the Aggregate National Rating formula) includes teams that were featured in 11 different matchups on Saturday. Those potential NCAA Tournament previews include three from the list above (Stanford-Vanderbilt, Fullerton-TCU and Louisville-Florida), plus:

at Coastal Carolina 4, Kentucky 1
Lemoyne 5, at Tulane 4 (10 inn.; Tulane won other game 14-1/7 inn.)
at Texas 10, Illinois-Chicago 1
at Texas 3, Illinois-Chicago 1
San Diego 9, Bethune Cookman 6 (in Compton, CA)
Kentucky 8, James Madison 3 (in Conway, SC)
at Clemson 4, Charlotte 0
at East Carolina 5, Monmouth 1
USC 4, at Long Beach State 0