Who do you expect to get bids. Obviously Rutgers will for winning the Big East Tournmament title. St. John's should as well since they are #23 in the country. UofL has 40 wins and an RPI of 41. How many can we get in?

CardsForThree Wrote:Who do you expect to get bids. Obviously Rutgers will for winning the Big East Tournmament title. St. John's should as well since they are #23 in the country. UofL has 40 wins and an RPI of 41. How many can we get in?

I think my earlier prediction of St. John's, Rutgers, and UL will get in stands.

brista21 Wrote:

CardsForThree Wrote:Who do you expect to get bids. Obviously Rutgers will for winning the Big East Tournmament title. St. John's should as well since they are #23 in the country. UofL has 40 wins and an RPI of 41. How many can we get in?

I think my earlier prediction of St. John's, Rutgers, and UL will get in stands.

I really hope you're right because we're the odd man out otherwise.

Schools outside the South and West fare poorly in NCAA tournament selection criteria,and that's one of the problems for college baseball--it's becoming a regional sport. Multiple at large bids for schools north of I-70 are increasingly rare.

Hope for three, but don't be surprised if it's two.

DFW HOYA Wrote:Schools outside the South and West fare poorly in NCAA tournament selection criteria,and that's one of the problems for college baseball--it's becoming a regional sport. Multiple at large bids for schools north of I-70 are increasingly rare.

Hope for three, but don't be surprised if it's two.

-- I agree...I would just look for St Johns and Rutgers to get in


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Ill say Rutgers and Louisville. St johns might get a third but their tourney performance and RPI will hurt them

DFW HOYA Wrote:Schools outside the South and West fare poorly in NCAA tournament selection criteria,and that's one of the problems for college baseball--it's becoming a regional sport. Multiple at large bids for schools north of I-70 are increasingly rare.

Hope for three, but don't be surprised if it's two.

I think you're right about that. I guess we have to change perceptions with results, just like football.

The Big East has the potential to be a very good baseball conference in time. Rutgers has usually been good, St. John's has been very good, Notre Dame is usually excellent. South Florida has the potential to be very good, and Louisville it would appear should be very good as well. I think the league will average 3 bids in the future.

Don't know if UofL will squeeze in there or not.

Lot's of talk of RPIs, but how much does the committee look at SOS? UofL's isn't very good, as a matter of fact neither are St. John's or Rutgers.

If a 2nd school makes it, I think its UofL. If a 3rd makes it, it'd be St John's. The order those two get in could be reversed, but I think the Cards get in first based off of a solidly higher RPI, equal wins against a much tougher schedule, and the way St John's didn't show up in the tournament.

Congrats to Rutgers on winning the league tournament!

Looks like I ended up being right. Congrats to UL and St. John's on also making the field. Now lets go kick some *** and take some names.

Yeah brista, you called it a while back. I didn't think we'd get 3 in, but it worked out. Some of the first #3 seeds shown on the show today were surprises to make it at all so it wasn't looking good at the time for UofL or St John's. Then they released Rutgers as a 2 so that made me think we were getting 3 in at that point. My thinking there was that there was not a big enough gap among the 3 to have RU a 2 and no one else even make it.

St. John's was the one that had me worried. Their RPI was something like 56 according to warrennolan.com, just below USF. But they had 40 wins, and a 15-3 away record. Glad to see they got in :)

BullsFanatic Wrote:St. John's was the one that had me worried. Their RPI was something like 56 according to warrennolan.com, just below USF. But they had 40 wins, and a 15-3 away record. Glad to see they got in :)

Well as we know RPI isn't quite everything. Fortunately it worked out for the conference. I still say we'll become the strongest baseball league based primarily in the North by far.