College Baseball Tourney: The Road To Omaha

[twinkie13]

Let's do it

 

[Play2win]

1- Ore St
4- Holy Cross
3- Yale
2- Nebraska

1-Clemson
4- UNCG
3- St John's
2- Vandy

1- Stanford
4- Sac St
3- BYU
2- Fullerton

1- LBSU
4- SDSU
3- UCLA
2- Texas

1- Texas Tech
4- Delaware
3- Sam Houston St
2- Arizona

1- FSU
4- Tenn Tech
3- Auburn
2- UCF

1- So Miss
4- Illinois Chicago
3- S Bama
2- Miss St

1- LSU
4- Texas So
3- Rice
2- SELA

1- UNC
4- Davidson
3- Michigan
2- FGCU

1-Houston
4- Iowa
3- Texas A&M
2- Baylor

1- Kentucky
4- Ohio
3- NC St
2- Indiana

1- Louisville
4- Radford
3- Xavier
2- Oklahoma

1- TCU
4- Central Conn St
3- DBU
2- UVA

1- Arkansas
4- Oral
3- Oklahoma St
2- Missouri St

1- Wake
4- UMBC
3- Maryland
2- West Virginia

1- Florida
4- Marist
3- Bethune-Cookman
2- South Florida

 

[Play2win]

Quick notes by region:

Ore St: 49-4 reg season record and #1 overall seed will not break a sweat in this region, 1.84 team ERA is #1 in country
Neb: #44 RPI

Clemson: started 25-5 but limping into tournament
Johnnies: only played 1 top 50 RPI team but 10-5 vs RPI top 100 and are top 10 in NCAA in both team ERA and team batting average
Vandy: Wright and Kendall could both be top 10 picks in draft

 

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Fullerton: #43 RPI
BYU: 4-4 vs top 50 RPI, can't play Sun games

Texas: 11-12 record in conference and only team in field with losing record in conference but Big 12 #1 in RPI by conference
UCLA: worst RPI of all tournament teams #52

 

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FSU: gets to host despite going .500 in conference, has work cut out for them here
Aub: #45 RPI

 

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So Miss: gets tough region and even if they win, winner of this region rewarded with trip to LSU
So Miss: 11-6 vs RPI top 50 and 26-12 vs RPI top 100, one of best offenses in country with team batting average of .311
UIC: #2 in team ERA and have pitching depth with 9 pitchers throwing at least 20 innings and all with ERA under 4 and they won a road series at Vandy this season but #252 strength of schedule including 2-1 vs top 50 RPI and 8-7 vs top 100 RPI
S Bama: eliminated So Miss last season but 3-10 vs top 50 RPI and 8-16 vs top 100 RPI and likely to be without injured catcher, Barnes (.320 avg 13 HR's 50 RBI's)

LSU: probably best 1-2 punch w/ SP's Lange and Poche but also have the bats, hitting .294 as a team and have 5 players in lineup that are hitting over .300
Rice: hot team has won 18 of last 22
SELA: 8-6 vs top 50 RPI

 

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UNC: #2 overall seed

Hou: draws tough as they host two dangerous in state foes
A&M: #46 RPI

 

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Kentucky: struggled offensively in SEC Tournament but should breeze through this region...
Ohio: no games vs RPI top 50 but did go 5-2 vs RPI top 100
Indiana: argument could be made they don't belong in tournament let along a 2 seed, 8-7-1 vs RPI top 50 and 15-12-2 vs top 100 RPI
NC St: also questionable, 9-11 vs top 50 RPI and 12-16 vs RPI top 100

 

[Timh]

Thanks Play.

 

[captjohn67]

FSU: gets to host despite going .500 in conference, has work cut out for them here
Aub: #45 RPI

Thinking Central Florida myself. Auburn peaked too early but maybe Thompson and Mize will pitch some gems.

 

[twinkie13]

Great stuff play

 

[Marsski]

Kentucky: struggled offensively in SEC Tournament but should breeze through this region...
Ohio: no games vs RPI top 50 but did go 5-2 vs RPI top 100
Indiana: argument could be made they don't belong in tournament let along a 2 seed, 8-7-1 vs RPI top 50 and 15-12-2 vs top 100 RPI
NC St: also questionable, 9-11 vs top 50 RPI and 12-16 vs RPI top 100

Bobcats!

 

[GWarner27]

Go Horns

(please don't 2 and cue)

 

[pressitup]

Ags sure to get blown out in Super Regionals. All about tradition.

 

[GWarner27]

^^who says texas people don't have positive mindsets

 

[Play2win]

Starting to see some probable pitching matchups

Fullerton: Seabold 10-4 2.94 ERA
BYU: Corless 6-1 4.91 ERA

 

[captjohn67]

Auburn - Keegan Thompson

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/profile.asp?P=keegan-thompson

Robby Howell one would think but not confirmed

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/profile.asp?P=robby-howell

 

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In other game today...
Stanford: Bubic
Sac St: Dillon

 

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Auburn - Keegan Thompson

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/profile.asp?P=keegan-thompson

Robby Howell one would think but not confirmed

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/profile.asp?P=robby-howell

Correct...Thompson vs Howell in G1 and Mize 2nd game for Aub

 

[KJ]

Crazy to me that they completely changed the standard format to cater to BYU

 

[captjohn67]

Probables, Randy Bell for S Alabama and Cole Gordon for Miss St (State -140 with a 12.5) played und 12.5 -125 fwiw

http://www.usajaguars.com/documents/2017/5/28/Updated_Stats.pdf

http://static.hailstate.com/custompages/stats/bb/2017/bb_stats_2017.pdf

 

[Johnnyonthespot]

How bad would UMBC like to beat MD? ML +260
UCF +205
Ohio +205
UNC -2.5/110
BC -1.5/105

 

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How bad would UMBC like to beat MD? ML +260

Maryland with big SP edge imo...Blohm vs Chanin....umbc not good conference but then again neither is Big Ten in bases this yr

 

[twinkie13]

Holy smoke Aubbie

 

[twinkie13]

Ags sure to get blown out in Super Regionals. All about tradition.

That team is odd......they don't hit so much

 

[twinkie13]

Crazy to me that they completely changed the standard format to cater to BYU

They just will NOT play on Sunday

 

[KJ]

They just will NOT play on Sunday

It's bullshit that the NCAA alters the schedule for that. In hoops, at least they can slot them into Thur/Sat, but this is complete garbage, to start the series a day early because of the religion and while it didn't play out, the day of rest could have made a huge difference. Just don't like anything about it.

 

[GWarner27]

why is UT +150? Does LBSU get to be the home team after they won last night despite coming from the loser's bracket? If so, that's BS

 

[Play2win]

Decent little preview for Super Regionals:

http://www.ncaa.com/news/baseball/a...-previews-team-info-all-eight-super-regionals