Definitely Not A Cop said:

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I don't really understand the regional process. If you win the SEC tournament, is it an automatic bid? Or does your season stats still affect whether you get in?

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If you win the SEC tournament, you have an automatic bid, but your season stats will affect your seeding in the tournament.

Definitely Not A Cop said:

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I don't really understand the regional process. If you win the SEC tournament, is it an automatic bid? Or does your season stats still affect whether you get in?

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The SEC gets one auto bid, and that's the tournament winner. Theoretically, it's possible for a team that would not get an at large bid to win the tournament and the SEC's automatic entry into the tournament, but I don't know if that has ever happened. Maybe if you go way back in time.

However, it happens regularly in other conferences.

Thanks to both.

Definitely Not A Cop said:

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I don't really understand the regional process. If you win the SEC tournament, is it an automatic bid? Or does your season stats still affect whether you get in?

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If you win the SEC Tournament, it is an automatic bid.

For the SEC, it doesn't matter a whole lot, since SEC will get multiple at-large bids. The only way it matters is if a team wouldn't otherwise have gotten into the NCAA Tournament wins the SEC Tournament. Some conferences will only be able to send one team to the NCAA Tournament, and for those conferences, it really matters who wins the conference tournament because that's the team that gets to go.

There are 30 automatic qualifiers. The rest of the 34 teams are selected by the committee based on various metrics. There are 16 Regionals with four teams each. Each team in a regional is assigned a seed 1-4. The top 16 teams in the eyes of the committee get to host those regionals and are 1-seeds. The next 16 best teams are 2-seeds, the next are 3-seeds, and the bottom teams are 4-seeds. The committee uses several criteria to determine which teams get sent to which regionals, but the biggest factor is usually distance to the host site (but they also will not put two teams from the same conference in a single Regional).

On the first day in each Regional, the 1-seed plays the 4-seed and the 2-seed plays the 3-seed. The tournament then proceeds in double elimination format until each Regional produces a champion.

Warren Nolan has our live RPI @ 24, D1 Baseball has us ranked 25. We just knocked off Stanford, ranked #6 by D1.
https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/baseball/d1/d1baseballcom-top-25

tu RPI is 23. Not ranked in that poll.
I think it's a toss up deciding who hosts the Super, if we both win.

Hornbeck said:

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Warren Nolan has our live RPI @ 24, D1 Baseball has us ranked 25. We just knocked off Stanford, ranked #6 by D1.
https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/baseball/d1/d1baseballcom-top-25

tu RPI is 23. Not ranked in that poll.
I think it's a toss up deciding who hosts the Super, if we both win.

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If it's A&M vs. Texas in anything, do you really think logic and reason will come into play? If we manage to win it in California, get ready to pack your bags for Miami or Austin. Period.

Has nothing to do with RPI. It's a bid comparison. DF has about 600 more seats capacity but the key is guaranteed ticket sales. Those bids were submitted a couple weeks ago. And NCAA is 100% about the money.

CapCityAg89 said:

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Has nothing to do with RPI. It's a bid comparison. DF has about 600 more seats capacity but the key is guaranteed ticket sales. Those bids were submitted a couple weeks ago. And NCAA is 100% about the money.

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Interesting, thx. Wouldn't the Ags have more 'guaranteed' fans/ticket sales?

nortex97 said:

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CapCityAg89 said:

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Has nothing to do with RPI. It's a bid comparison. DF has about 600 more seats capacity but the key is guaranteed ticket sales. Those bids were submitted a couple weeks ago. And NCAA is 100% about the money.

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Interesting, thx. Wouldn't the Ags have more 'guaranteed' fans/ticket sales?

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Why would you think so? They got a few more seats than we have, and I'm sure they charge as much for tickets as we do (everything is expensive in Austin). They don't have any trouble selling tickets, and usually are slightly ahead of us on average attendance.

Yea. I think the question is the berm. Plus guaranteed sales don't have to be actual sales - just a check to the ncaa.

CapCityAg89 said:

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Has nothing to do with RPI. It's a bid comparison. DF has about 600 more seats capacity but the key is guaranteed ticket sales. Those bids were submitted a couple weeks ago. And NCAA is 100% about the money.

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Yep. It's that simple. No grand conspiracy.