After weighing scholarship offers to play college baseball from WVU , St. John 's University and Clemson University , Gyorko chose to remain near home , enrolling at WVU in order to play college baseball for the West Virginia Mountaineers baseball team , which competed in the Big East Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association 's ( NCAA ) Division I. Gyorko shifted to second base for his freshman year to accommodate senior Tyler Kuhn , who played shortstop . He had a 21-game hitting streak to start his tenure with the Mountaineers , registering a .500 batting average during the streak . As a freshman , Gyorko finished the season with a .409 batting average with eight home runs and 63 runs batted in ( RBIs ) , winning the Big East Rookie of the Year Award . He was also named to the All-Big East 's second team , and the Freshman All-America teams of '' Louisville Slugger '' and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association . He agreed to play collegiate summer baseball for the Brewster Whitecaps of the Cape Cod Baseball League ( CCBL ) after the college season , but he required shoulder surgery and was unable to play
Big East Conference
Big East Conference (1979–2013)
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