Teams that Got Screwed
Texas A&M (out of a national seed)
College of Charleston (out of a regional host)
North Florida, Kentucky, Michigan State, Missouri- out of field of 64
North Florida has a great record and ran away with their conference.
Kentucky won two series against top 4 national seeds on the road.
Michigan State swept Oregon in Eugene, somehow Oregon gets in over them.
Missouri- first team ever to have 16 wins over SEC teams and not make the field of 64
WTF decisions
Oregon getting in- they have no business in the field, but Nike money from Uncle Phil talks, I guess.
UC Santa Barbara hosting a regional 3 hours from campus. They should not be hosting at all after losing a series to 250 RPI UC Riverside this weekend.
TCU getting a national seed over Texas A&M.
Texas being a 3 seed with a terrible RPI as an auto bid. Literally the definition of a 4 seed.
It seems like everyone benefitted from beating SEC teams...except other SEC teams. WTF? The committee rewarded conference champions and brutally punished everyone else like February through early May didn't matter at all. Never seen anything like it in all the years I've been following college baseball.
On the positive for LSU, we got a joke of a regional and arguably the easiest super regional pairing. If we don't get to Omaha this year, Paul Mainieri's job will be in jeopardy. Tulane is probably the next-best team in the Baton Rouge regional, and we've beaten them twice by six runs already. Surprised UL didn't come to our regional for the ten millionth time, but I guess the committee thought that was played out already.
Texas A&M (out of a national seed)
College of Charleston (out of a regional host)
North Florida, Kentucky, Michigan State, Missouri- out of field of 64
North Florida has a great record and ran away with their conference.
Kentucky won two series against top 4 national seeds on the road.
Michigan State swept Oregon in Eugene, somehow Oregon gets in over them.
Missouri- first team ever to have 16 wins over SEC teams and not make the field of 64
WTF decisions
Oregon getting in- they have no business in the field, but Nike money from Uncle Phil talks, I guess.
UC Santa Barbara hosting a regional 3 hours from campus. They should not be hosting at all after losing a series to 250 RPI UC Riverside this weekend.
TCU getting a national seed over Texas A&M.
Texas being a 3 seed with a terrible RPI as an auto bid. Literally the definition of a 4 seed.
It seems like everyone benefitted from beating SEC teams...except other SEC teams. WTF? The committee rewarded conference champions and brutally punished everyone else like February through early May didn't matter at all. Never seen anything like it in all the years I've been following college baseball.
On the positive for LSU, we got a joke of a regional and arguably the easiest super regional pairing. If we don't get to Omaha this year, Paul Mainieri's job will be in jeopardy. Tulane is probably the next-best team in the Baton Rouge regional, and we've beaten them twice by six runs already. Surprised UL didn't come to our regional for the ten millionth time, but I guess the committee thought that was played out already.