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Designation of Home & Visiting Teams / Uniforms & Dugouts
For the First Round (Day 1) of the Tournament, the higher seed shall begin as the designated home team and shall wear white uniforms if it owns white uniforms. The visiting team must wear a contrasting color uniform than the home team. Failure to follow proper uniform protocol may result in game delay.
After the first round of play, the home team shall be determined by the following formula:
1. The games committee shall designate as home team the institution that has been home team the fewest times.
2. If two teams have been home team an equal number of times but visiting team an unequal number of times, the team that has been the visitor most often shall be designated as home team.
3. If two teams have been both home team and visiting team an equal number of times, the highest seeded team shall be designated as home team.
4. For the championship game, if only one team is undefeated it shall be designated as home team. If both teams have an equal number of losses the higher seed shall be designated as home team.
5. If teams play back-to-back games, they must be prepared to change uniforms and dugouts if necessary.
The Tournament Director will assist with proper uniform selections at the conclusion of each game/day of the Tournament. At the conclusion of Day 1, the home team will have the option to choose which uniforms it will wear for the following game. Once determined, the visiting team must wear uniforms of a contrasting color. Teams are to bring, at a minimum, two sets of uniforms, one white and one dark.
Only players in uniform and persons issued proper credentials shall be permitted in team dugouts. The third base dugout will be the home team dugout and the first base dugout will be the visiting team dugout.

That explains it. Toledo was the 5 seed and so was the visitor in their first game vs #4.

Miami has been eliminated. That was the only team with a respectable record, still sub .500

EMU is taking it to Toledo right now: 5-0 in the 6th. We have the winner tomorrow in the semis.

5-1, 8th inning.

Well it couldn't be any better. Number 1 seed KSU vs. 6, 7 and 8 seeds. CMU, WMU and EMU are left. We have to defend Ohio from the Michigan invasion.

#8 seed EMU again it is.

(05-27-2016 06:20 PM)burden Wrote:  Well it couldn't be any better. Number 1 seed KSU vs. 6, 7 and 8 seeds. CMU, WMU and EMU are left. We have to defend Ohio from the Michigan invasion.

I think you mean from the invasion of sh!t the MAC calls baseball teams.

Even though ranked 23rd our SOS is so bad it's win or go home. Correct? If the MAC is this bad what else can we do? The AD won't spend money to send them South more than twice. Any thoughts?

(05-27-2016 07:26 PM)KSU93 Wrote:  Even though ranked 23rd our SOS is so bad it's win or go home. Correct? If the MAC is this bad what else can we do? The AD won't spend money to send them South more than twice. Any thoughts?

The first weekend is a killer. Three losses against some good teams. A win might have made a difference.

Thoughts: it's been a great year. Hopefully, it won't end this weekend.

(05-27-2016 08:16 PM)bopol Wrote:  

(05-27-2016 07:26 PM)KSU93 Wrote:  Even though ranked 23rd our SOS is so bad it's win or go home. Correct? If the MAC is this bad what else can we do? The AD won't spend money to send them South more than twice. Any thoughts?

The first weekend is a killer. Three losses against some good teams. A win might have made a difference.

Thoughts: it's been a great year. Hopefully, it won't end this weekend.

I have been looking at some metrics. As of this moment, our RPI is 61. The problem is we only played 6 games total vs. RPI 1-100 teams and we went 1-5. We truly do need a more challenging OOC schedule. Need to go west and play a series against someone like Arizona State or CSF. Or both. If you take 2-3 games out of 6-8 games you look really good. At that point saying you went 2-4 or 3-3 against those teams is good. Imagine if we went 4-2. Then with our record we are a lock.

Last year, Radford (RPI #14) and Liberty (#65) were really good teams. The OOC schedule looked pretty tough before the season. It was just that the teams they played weren't as tough as they were last year.

CMU is ahead of WMU 4-0. That's what we want. If CMU wins and we beat EMU, whoever we would play tomorrow would have to beat us twice.

Leadoff HR by KSU in T1. Going to the bottom of the 1st with a 1-0 lead.

B1 EMU hits a solo shot. Hit the OF glove before bouncing over the wall. 1-1

Another EMU HR. 2-1

Flashes not looking especially sharp early. Just had a runner on 1st base picked off by the catcher with 2 on and 1 out.

Losing 3-1 now as catcher throws the ball away with a runner on 3rd.

we had better buckle down or we are going to put our backs against the wall. down 4-1

Pulled to within 4-3