Many of these smaller conferences limit their post season tourney to help with RPI. Games against the #12 team in the Colonial hurts, even at a neutral site. So a lot of the conferences only allow four teams into the conference tourney. Helps RPI and ensures some bottom dweller doesn't steal a bid.jkag89 said:Now that is odd. I did not look that far into it since we're not involved. In an attempt to .get as many teams into the NCAAs the conferences have expanded their tournerys to an extent many of them are filled with quirks such as this (or the SEC's double elimination until its not). Now ask Texas St. if they wish the Sun Belt Conference such a quirky set up instead of the the league having a traditional 8 team tourney for a 14 team league.BiochemAg97 said:jkag89 said:
Okie State gets a bye like OU. OU will face the lowest seeded team to advance from Tuesday's slate of games and oSu the next lowest.
I think the oddity is the highest seeded winners from Tuesday get a bye on Wednesday. If sips beat Tech, they skip Wednesday and end up playing the winner of Oklahoma State vs (5) or (8) On Wednesday.
Harder path for #2 to get to game #12 compared to #3, who also gets a rest day on Wednesday.
This tournament was delayed and moved because of a "carpet failure" impacting the pitching mound. Or maybe, perhaps we shouldn't play baseball on carpet.Detective Jake Peralta said:
Ivy League Tournament is on as well.
They take the top four teams and play a double elimination regional format.
Penn needs 2 wins over Cornell today to clinch the autobid, just went up 2-0 in the bottom of the first.
Or at the very least have dirt where dirt is suppose to be.Sean98 said:This tournament was delayed and moved because of a "carpet failure" impacting the pitching mound. Or maybe, perhaps we shouldn't play baseball on carpet.Detective Jake Peralta said:
Ivy League Tournament is on as well.
They take the top four teams and play a double elimination regional format.
Penn needs 2 wins over Cornell today to clinch the autobid, just went up 2-0 in the bottom of the first.
I think day one of the SEC will be an exception to that. With five teams sitting at 13-17, there's a very real chance that the results on that day might be a difference maker. The D1 guys seemed to think that they all get in, which would probably be justified based on the weak bubble this year, but if the committee just decides that 11 is too many, it's hard to believe that the team(s) that ends up on the short end of the stick would be teams that win tomorrow, as opposed to losing tomorrow.Sean98 said:
ACC and SEC are the best quality of ball but they're boring to me because there's very little on the line.
The Fun Belt, Coastal, A-SUN... Those are the tourneys to watch.
The UGA - LSU game is perhaps the most interesting. UGA needs to avoid an early exit if they want to make the best case for a top 8 seed. LSU, with the lowest RPI among the five 13-17, probably wouldn't drop far, if at all, with a loss, but might find themselves being compared with another Tuesday loser that beat them head to head (the loser of the Vandy/Florida game, or Bama if they lose to USC).Sean98 said:
Agreed. 1 too many in the Top 8 and 1 too many overall.
probably 3. But they have 4-5 teams in consideration. And because they're all good RPI teams like JMU and Troy can play their way in with a good week. They're 17/18 wins in conference but 45-55 in RPI now. If they played the bottom end of that conference it could move the 30s to 40s, etcjkag89 said:
I understand but the Sun Belt is not a one bid league.
I got double headers all week with my kids. I have no sympathy the SECT participants.stretch248 said:
It was a hot one today in Bham area and looks the same for the next few days.
Have you every seen someone who hit a wall scraper 340 ft HR over a 335 ft fence pimp a home run like that? @CadenSorrell looked like Barry Bonds pimping a 509 ft moonshot into the San Francisco Bay… https://t.co/nRhBGZ6ZDn
— Hayden Schott (@SchottHayden) May 20, 2024
Sean98 said:
Looks like they're going to implement the double 1st base bag at Hoover
I am off Thursday so I am loving it.jkag89 said:The late games tend to be very late especially when weather is added to the mix but since we are in that bracket, here's to playing evening games until the weekend.AgEng06 said:
Here's to playing in all of the late games.
Birmingham-Southern (Division 3) just advanced to the D3 Super Regionals
— 11Point7 College Baseball (@11point7) May 19, 2024
Their college is SHUTTING DOWN permanently May 31st.
If they advance to the D3 College World Series, they will be playing for a school that no longer exists pic.twitter.com/IEKfnt1NFm
