OT: NCAA Baseball Selection show
I'm killing time until Duke vs Notre Dame. Baseball selection show is on. Michigan has a 0.000000000000000001 in 1 trillion chance of making it. But, technically, as Lloyd Christmas says, "So you're saying there's a chance?"
Sigh, TCU didn't get a national seed. I probably won't see them in the super regionals.
EDIT:
Full Bracket typed out at TheCBB:
2010 NCAA Baseball Tournament Field Announced
Interactive bracket isn't out yet. That only really matters for the Super Regional matchups, almost all of them being the closest one to each other (such as Fullerton vs UCLA or Texas vs TCU).
EDIT II: Interactive Bracket up
Rice #2 at Texas #1. Great rivalry game set up in the 2nd round. I want to say UT went 2-1 against Rice this year.
Coastal got stony brook, nc state, and college of charleston. Pretty good, yet underrated regional. Should set them up nicely for a CWS run for the little guy.
Holy hell, LSU being forced to travel to UCLA. You've got Kent State and UC Irvine there too. Winner of that tourney has to be the favorite for Omaha. Jesus.
LSU playing well again, will have chip on their shoulder traveling west... I think Irvine is the secret here, their 1-2 are fantastic.
Minnesota is headed to Cal State Fullerton. Stanford is the two, New mexico is the 3. Dare I say I think the Gophers can win it?
Does Minnesota have good enough pitching? Watched them in big ten tourney- am a little skeptical. Thought Michigan had better pitching until their relievers imploded.
Their starting three can compete with anyone. Maytas is a solid closer. Unlike Michigan's pen, their guys haven't consistenly imploded at key times this season. It's winnable, maybe not super likely, but definitely winnable.
Still feeling good on this. Minnesota was the only #4 seed to upset a #1 in the opening round. Face #3 New Mexico in the winners bracket late tonight.
Rosin was awesome.
TCU hosting Lamar Arizona and Baylor. God I wish I was in town for that.
Did Oregon or Oregon State make it into the tourney?
Both. The PAC 10 had 8 teams in the touney. Oregon is headed to UCONN, Oregon State is in, but I forgot where.
Even Cal made it in... AS A TWO SEED! WTF. They were horrible to close out the season. They probably shouldn't have even been in the tourney.
Did Cal get in because they have a fair number of guys who will be drafted? Seems that the NCAA falls in love with teams and their potential as much as their actual performance.
They are in on RPI alone. They went 6-12 down the stretch and I want to say they just reached .500 in conference on that last game. Their RPI fell from top 15 to about 40 after that stretch. You shouldn't be in the tournament if you end your season like that.
The guy also argued that Georgia Tech should host over South Carolina strictly based on RPI. The RPI is a horrible system in baseball. Unlike basketball, you don't get extra credit for beating teams on the road. Teams like UNC hosted 39 games. LSU left the state of Louisiana for only 12 regular season games and the 4 SEC tournament games. That's 40 games in the state (one at Tulane and Nortwestern St respectively, and a "neutral site" game against Southern Miss in Louisiana), the only ones outside of the state were mandatory parts of their SEC conference schedule.
From what I understand, in basketball, you get .7 wins for a home win and 1.4 wins for a road win as far as the RPI is concerned. It's my opinion that baseball should do something similar.
No Michigan. Go figure.
with the season they had. Biondi is gonna be pretty damn good not to mention all the guys that are returning.
Jesus pissing Christ. Tim Weiser is a retarded, fucked-up, ignorant sack of shit. Fuck that asshole. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. I hope he chokes on a bag of dicks.
You can let him know in a live chat at 2:30pm.
Minus the naughty words, I will indeed be querying why UVA would be seeded below a team they beat, and had a better SoS and RPI than. It's not as bad a screwjob as last year but it's insulting as hell, and I have my strong suspicions that they did it solely to set up an ACC/SEC pitchers of the year matchup for TV ratings.
CCU has had a rough time against CofC lately (winless 3 years)... although it's always been mid-week, never faced our weekend guys. The bigger question for me will be the urge Coach Gilmore will face to save our 1-2 guys... hate the idea, and pretty sure he's already stated they'll go in the first two games, BUT Stony Brook??? God, it's tempting, we beat them like 30-3 a year ago - have to think our 3 or even a committee can beat them easily... would love to have the 1-2 for CofC/NC State
Minny = No chance IMO - Fullerton is awesome right now... second half of season, as hot as anyone in the country...
Think UVA and others DEFINITELY show a SEC/ACC matchup preference, though it likely results to some degree from trying to keep same conference teams from meeting early on... when you have eight from each geographically similar conference, you almost can't help one of each in most regionals... and Wahoo - you'll never see their stud Pomeranz, he'll go against the Johnnies...
Glad to see NCAA kept UConn hosting to expand interest... FSU is royally pissed though...
and Wahoo - you'll never see their stud Pomeranz, he'll go against the Johnnies...
I'd like to hope so, and there's reason to think so, but I don't think we can be so sure of it either.
I'd love to see Ole Miss screw themselves over and underestimate St John's. That's make my weekend.
I just read that Pomeranz is a go for SJU. Fine by me. Now to root for them to use each other's bullpens up.
St Johns played very well the end of the year, including the BE tourny. It would be one of the all-time bonehead moves if they try to save him and it fails. Also, if he pitches 1st, there's a chance they can recycle him later if it goes full length... can't pass that up, IMO.
That said, I feel for you, last year was worse, but this still sucks. Although, don't let the "5" bother you too much, it's readily apparent anymore that there's not much "weight" to the seeds, just bragging rights. You DID get a cupcake SR - Okl, Cal, UNC all way overated IMO.
"This week in NCAA Sanctions"... video clips of burning coaches, riots, coaches hanging in effigy, "fire ______ .com site listings", player transfer announcements, etc...
Hell, I'd watch.
Seems a little excessive. Unless they weigh the same as a duck, then by all means, burn them
and if I could, another +1 for the catch, meant couches... thinking East Lansing... or WVU...
Duke vs. Notre Dame -- the classic story of evil vs. evil.
there is one Big Ten team in the NCAA tourney. Big Ten conference as a baseball conference is considered to be a mid-major. I figured that there was pretty much no chance of Michigan making it to the NCAA tourney because of it. The only way that Michigan was going to get in is if they were to win the Big Ten tourney.
While I'm sure you meant this, just because the Big Ten is a mid major doesn't mean it's a yearly one-bid conference. They tend to get at least two in recently.
but none of the Big Ten teams would stand out as a legitimate at large bid NCAA tourney team so the only way that any of them would get in is to win the conference tourney.
Yeah, I'm in agreement with you. But just calling them a mid-major sounded as if you were generalizing it to every year. Obviously that's not what you meant. I just point that out because no matter how many extremely long posts I make, some people are still learning.
Read it in a Rivals.com blog, that ESPN will choose the Fullerton regional as it's West Coast regional to televise (shocking over the UCLA/LSU regional). Don't have a link, don't know the validity of the poster, but it would be cool to be able to see how they do...
FYI, East Coast rumor is Coral Gables (Miami).
I've heard similar through a KR tweet. CSF gets the western televised regional. CSS in the south may carry ATL. NOTHING on UCLA. not even streaming.