(06-05-2016 08:06 AM)loki_the_bubba Wrote:  

(06-05-2016 01:03 AM)Wedge Wrote:  Status of all 16 regionals after Saturday's games:

Gainesville Regional: Florida is 2-0 (i.e., will play in regional final needing only one win in two possible games)
Tallahassee: Florida State is 2-0
Baton Rouge: Winner's bracket game not yet played because of rain
Raleigh: Winner's bracket game not yet finished because of rain, Coastal Carolina leads that suspended game 3-0 in the 9th inning

Lubbock: Texas Tech is 2-0
Charlottesville: East Carolina is 2-0
College Station: Texas A&M is 2-0
Fort Worth: TCU is 2-0

Louisville: Louisville is 2-0
Nashville: Winner's bracket game not yet played because of rain
Clemson: Oklahoma State is 2-0
Columbia: UNC Wilmington is 2-0

Starkville: Mississippi State is 2-0
Lafayette: Winner's bracket game not yet played because of rain
Coral Gables: Miami is 2-0
Oxford: Boston College is 2-0

Small corrction

Baton Rouge: Opening game #2 not yet finished because of rain, Rice leads SE La in that suspended game 4-1 in the 6th inning.

Over now. Rice beats SE La 7-2. Game time 41:23, lol

More weather delays. I tell ya, Tucson and Santa Barbara don't have much rain at the moment...

Charlottesville Regional.
#4 William & Mary 5, #1 Virginia 4.

Virginia is eliminated. The defending national champions are knocked out of their own regional

(06-05-2016 12:42 PM)jdgaucho Wrote:  More weather delays. I tell ya, Tucson and Santa Barbara don't have much rain at the moment...

Most of the NCAA baseball committee couldn't find Tucson or Santa Barbara on a map, let alone have any idea whether or not it ever rains there.

Check out the membership of the Division I baseball committee. Only one member from the entire western U.S. (the AD from the University of San Francisco). The baseball committee is East Coast Bias on steroids.

Quote:Christopher Del Conte, Texas Christian University
Joel W. Erdmann, University of South Alabama
Kevin Anderson, University of Maryland, College Park
Michael A. Bobinski, Georgia Institute of Technology
Patrick Chun, Florida Atlantic University
Ray Tanner, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Larry Lyons, Illinois State University
Shawn Heilbron, Stony Brook University
Robert Lawson Goodman, Colonial Athletic Association
Scott Sidwell, University of San Francisco

Coral Gables Regional.
#3 Long Beach State 5, #2 FAU 1.
FAU is eliminated

Tallahassee Regional
#3 South Alabama 7, #2 Southern Miss 5
Southern Miss is eliminated.

Raleigh Regional
#1 NC State 17, #4 Navy 1
Navy is eliminated.

Baton Rouge Regional
#3 SELA 3, #4 Utah Valley 2
Utah Valley is eliminated.

Starkville Regional
#3 Louisiana Tech 6, #2 Cal State Fullerton 2.
Cal State Fullerton is eliminated.

Lubbock Regional
#2 Dallas Baptist 5, #3 New Mexico 3.
New Mexico is eliminated.

The Lobos lost four of five games to Dallas Baptist this year, including a 33-8 setback on March 5th.


Gainesville Regional.
#2 Georgia Tech 7, #3 UConn 5.
Connecticut is eliminated.


Fort Worth Regional
#2 Arizona State 6, #3 Gonzaga 3.
Gonzaga is eliminated.

Louisville Regional.
#3 Wright State 7, #2 Ohio State 3.
Ohio State is eliminated.

#1 Louisville 3, #3 Wright State 1.
Louisville advances to the Super Regionals

Pirates take down W&M, advance to Super Regional @ TxT if they win, most likely we would host if DBU wins two straight and thus eliminates TxT.

As of now:

Regional finals

Gainesville: Florida (2-0) v. Georgia Tech (2-1)
Tallahassee: Florida State (2-0) v. South Alabama (2-1)
Baton Rouge: Because of rain delays, the winner's bracket game (LSU v. Rice) just started a few minutes ago
Raleigh: Coastal Carolina (2-0) v. NC State (2-1)

Lubbock: Texas Tech (2-0) v. Dallas Baptist (2-1)
Charlottesville: East Carolina (2-0) v. William & Mary (2-1)
College Station: Texas A&M (2-0) v. Minnesota (2-1)
Fort Worth: TCU (2-0) v. Arizona State (2-1)

Louisville: Louisville advanced to Super Regional by beating Wright State in regional final
Nashville: UC Santa Barbara (2-0) v. winner of Washington/Xavier
Clemson: Oklahoma State (2-0) v. winner of Clemson/Western Carolina
Columbia: UNC Wilmington (2-0) v. South Carolina (2-1)

Starkville: Mississippi State (2-0) v. Louisiana Tech (2-1)
Lafayette: UL Lafayette (2-0) v. winner of Arizona/Sam Houston State
Coral Gables: Miami (2-0) vs. Long Beach State (2-1)
Oxford: Boston College (2-0) v. Tulane (2-1)

(06-05-2016 12:42 PM)jdgaucho Wrote:  More weather delays. I tell ya, Tucson and Santa Barbara don't have much rain at the moment...

Arizona and UCSB should field better teams then.

Update

Regional finals
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Gainesville: Florida advanced to Super Regional by beating Georgia Tech in regional final.
Tallahassee: Florida State advanced to Super Regional by beating South Alabama in regional final.

Florida will host a Super Regional vs. FSU next weekend.
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Baton Rouge: LSU (2-0) v. Rice/Southeastern Louisiana winner on Monday (if the Baton Rouge weather permits).
Raleigh: Coastal Carolina (2-0) v. NC State (2-1) in regional final.
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Lubbock: Dallas Baptist beat Texas Tech to force a winner-take-all Game 7 between the same teams on Monday.
Charlottesville: East Carolina advanced to Super Regional by beating William & Mary in regional final.
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College Station: Texas A&M advanced to Super Regional by beating Minnesota in regional final.
Fort Worth: TCU advanced to Super Regional by beating Arizona State in regional final.

Texas A&M will host a Super Regional vs. TCU next weekend.
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Louisville: Louisville advanced to Super Regional by beating Wright State in regional final.
Nashville: UC Santa Barbara (2-0) v. Xavier (2-1) on Monday.
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Clemson: Oklahoma State (2-0) advanced to Super Regional by beating Clemson in regional final.
Columbia: South Carolina beat UNC Wilmington to force a Game 7 on Monday.
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Starkville: Mississippi State advanced to Super Regional by beating Louisiana Tech in regional final.
Lafayette: UL Lafayette (2-0) v. Arizona (2-1) on Monday.
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Coral Gables: Miami advanced to Super Regional by beating Long Beach State in regional final.
Oxford: Boston College advanced to Super Regional by beating Tulane in regional final.

Miami will host a Super Regional v. Boston College next weekend.
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The west is down to two teams: Arizona and UC Santa Barbara. Yikes.

(06-06-2016 12:07 AM)jdgaucho Wrote:  The west is down to two teams: Arizona and UC Santa Barbara. Yikes.

If you don't host regionals, you rarely win them. If they made all the teams east of the Mississippi play on the road and more than 1,000 miles from their own campus, they wouldn't win a regional, either.

Only 3 visiting teams have won a regional so far this year out of the 10 completed, and 5 of the 6 uncompleted regionals (all but Nashville) can still be won by the hosting team.

(06-05-2016 07:17 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(06-05-2016 12:42 PM)jdgaucho Wrote:  More weather delays. I tell ya, Tucson and Santa Barbara don't have much rain at the moment...

Arizona and UCSB should field better teams then.

UCSB was 37-18-1 with an RPI of #23 entering the NCAA Tournament. Third place in a conference which sent three teams. We were decent enough to host. We just don't have lights (amongst other things), which was stated previously.

Arizona just got punished because a sub .500 team won the Pac-12, methinks. They certainly have the facilities to host.

(06-06-2016 12:29 AM)Wedge Wrote:  

(06-06-2016 12:07 AM)jdgaucho Wrote:  The west is down to two teams: Arizona and UC Santa Barbara. Yikes.

If you don't host regionals, you rarely win them. If they made all the teams east of the Mississippi play on the road and more than 1,000 miles from their own campus, they wouldn't win a regional, either.

Only 3 visiting teams have won a regional so far this year out of the 10 completed, and 5 of the 6 uncompleted regionals (all but Nashville) can still be won by the hosting team.

When was the last time LSU, Florida, Miami, Louisville, etc. came out west for a regional or super regional?

(06-06-2016 01:15 AM)jdgaucho Wrote:  

(06-06-2016 12:29 AM)Wedge Wrote:  

(06-06-2016 12:07 AM)jdgaucho Wrote:  The west is down to two teams: Arizona and UC Santa Barbara. Yikes.

If you don't host regionals, you rarely win them. If they made all the teams east of the Mississippi play on the road and more than 1,000 miles from their own campus, they wouldn't win a regional, either.

Only 3 visiting teams have won a regional so far this year out of the 10 completed, and 5 of the 6 uncompleted regionals (all but Nashville) can still be won by the hosting team.

When was the last time LSU, Florida, Miami, Louisville, etc. came out west for a regional or super regional?

They'll send "under the radar" eastern teams to a west coast regional. Maybe once every ten years a "traditional baseball power" like LSU or Miami will go out west in the tournament.

In addition to that, another committee bias (probably to keep ESPN happy) is that they'll match up nearby strong teams in regionals or super regionals to try to ensure that they never end up with "too many" California teams or Florida teams or Texas teams in Omaha. So by design there have always been a lot of interstate matchups in the tournament like Fullerton-UCLA, Clemson-South Carolina, Florida-Florida State, etc.

Their rules say they can't pair regionals hosted by teams from the same conference in a super regional matchup, and can't put two teams from the same league in the same 4-team regional, so for example they can't pair a regional hosted by Texas with one hosted by TCU, but they'll match up nearby teams not in the same league, as they did this year by pairing a Texas A&M hosted regional against one hosted by TCU in the super regional round.

(06-06-2016 01:39 AM)Wedge Wrote:  

(06-06-2016 01:15 AM)jdgaucho Wrote:  When was the last time LSU, Florida, Miami, Louisville, etc. came out west for a regional or super regional?

They'll send "under the radar" eastern teams to a west coast regional. Maybe once every ten years a "traditional baseball power" like LSU or Miami will go out west in the tournament.

In addition to that, another committee bias (probably to keep ESPN happy) is that they'll match up nearby strong teams in regionals or super regionals to try to ensure that they never end up with "too many" California teams or Florida teams or Texas teams in Omaha. So by design there have always been a lot of interstate matchups in the tournament like Fullerton-UCLA, Clemson-South Carolina, Florida-Florida State, etc.

Their rules say they can't pair regionals hosted by teams from the same conference in a super regional matchup, and can't put two teams from the same league in the same 4-team regional, so for example they can't pair a regional hosted by Texas with one hosted by TCU, but they'll match up nearby teams not in the same league, as they did this year by pairing a Texas A&M hosted regional against one hosted by TCU in the super regional round.

Last year was an anomaly with Virginia being sent out to Lake Elsinore. Should see more of that, it's not like those teams cannot afford a little travel.

We do have a Super Regional between two members of the same conference (Boston College and Miami). But of course BC was not a regional host.

I wish softball went by the first rule you quoted. But that's for another thread.

jdgaucho, congrats on making the super regional. That 3 run jack sealed it! 9-2 now.

Not done yet, FS Alum. Xavier can chip away at this. Long way to go before congrats are handed out,