This Week in CUSA Baseball:
CONFERENCE PLAY BEGINS!

In the USAToday Polls:
Tulane is #24
Rice #26
Southern Miss is #27
UCF #30
East Carolina #31

RPI Going into the week / Team / Record / Current RPI
#15 Southern Miss (15-3)
#18 East Carolina (16-4)
#27 Tulane (16-4)
#29 UCF (16-4)
#32 Houston (11-10)
#37 Rice (13-9)
#65 UAB (11-8)
#138 Memphis (11-6)
#220 Marshall (8-11) only below .500 team

#3 Conference USA (117-59 Non-Conference Record)

East Carolina has no mid-week games

Tuesday
Tulane hosts #186 Nicholls State (7-11)
- - Tulane and Marshall are the only CUSA teams facing below .500 teams mid-week.
Southern Miss @ #129 ULM (Louisiana-Monroe) (12-6)
- - FWIW - ULM and Nicholls State played eachother twice (split1 & 1)
Memphis @ #51 Arkansas (15-4) Arkansas is Ranked #13!!
- - Arkansas' Schedule has been pathetic
- - Last Weekend took 1 of 3 @ (RPI#5) Auburn
- - Tough test for Memphis and It's My GAME OF THE DAY
Rice @ #115 Lamar (16-7)
- - Rice lost to Lamar @ Home in Game 4 of their season 7-12
- - Lamar swept Tulane's Opponent Nicholls State
- - Upset Alert
UCF @ #41 Miami (Fla) (12-8) Miami is ranked #35
- - Miami's on a seven game winning streak
- - Only thing worth noting are there losses (1 to AppSt, 1 to USF, 1 to Rutgers, Swept by Florida)
- - Big Test for UCF - show no mercy
UAB hosts #58 Alabama (13-7) (@ Regions Park in Birmingham)
- - Alabama is ranked #43
- - Southern Miss beat Alabama 10-6
- - UCF beat Alabama 12-4
- - Troy also beat them 6-5
- - UAB can go for the CUSA SWEEP
Marshall @ #200 Cleveland State (5-11)
- - Redemption Time! (Marshall lost to ClevSt last week)
- - If you lose this game Marshall... I will stop including you in these threads

Wednesday
Southern Miss hosts #61 South Alabama (10-8)
- - UCF beat South Alabama 9-4
- - South Alabama also BEAT Alabama 10-9
- - Tough deal adding this make-up game to this week as they warrant your full attention
- - Being the second mid-week game... with Tulane this weekend... you're on Upset Alert!
Memphis hosts Arkansas to completed their two game mid-week series
*Rice hosts Houston*
- - Conference Play teaser game
- - Is this normal? Rice plays their series vs Houston @ Houston late in the year. So this game is one of two additional games scheduled with UH to be played @ Rice (for 5 total matchups this season)

Weekend Series:
Houston @ #47 TCU (12-7) TCU is Ranked #14
Southern Miss hosts Tulane
ECU hosts Memphis
Rice hosts UCF
Marshall hosts UAB

I do. haha. i wish the ECU boards will get alive again like when i first joined NCAAbbs

Well this board could have its uses but since most Pirates do their Pirate talking on rivals, byb, pip this one will be light on traffic.

Ice been on pip twice.. Only posted like 2 posts and never got back on.. I like here alot better

Last Week in CUSA Baseball

(03-16-2011 12:33 AM)PiKappWags Wrote:  RPIs are quite erroneous right now but I'll use them regardless

Our records are current as of Thursday - Opponent Records Reflect record entering the matchup
Tulane is Ranked # 25
Preweek RPI - Team (Record) - Week to date & New RPI
#4 Tulane (16-4) - - 4 Wins: now #27
#24 Southern Miss (15-3) - - 4 Wins: now #15!
#40 East Carolina (16-4) - - 5 Wins: now #18!!!
#42 Memphis (11-6) - - 2 Wins / 2 Loss: now #138!!
#45 Houston (11-10) - - 4 Wins / 1 Loss: now #32
#48 Rice (13-9) - - 3 Wins /1 Loss: now #37
#63 UAB (11-8) - - 3 Wins / 2 Losses: now #65
#125 UCF (16-4) - - 3 Wins / 1 Loss: now #29!! - Columbia had an ultra inflated RPI
#170 Marshall (8-11) - - 2 Wins / 2 Losses: now #220

Tuesday:
Tulane hosted #11 Southeastern Louisiana (12-4)
- - WIN 7-3
- - SELa had previously beaten Tulane and has wins over Alabama and UCF

Southern Miss @ Northwestern State (5-10)
- - WIN 9-2
- - NWState is bad and dropped two closer games to Tulane earlier this year

East Carolina @ #23 Elon (12-5)
- - WIN 3-4 (10 innings)
- - Elon had won 2of3 from both NCState and USF and took down WVU 17 to 1
- - WHEN will the bats wake up?

Houston hosted #79 Sam Houston State (12-4)
- - WIN 9-3
- - They're a good squad and took 1 of 3 @ Tulane
- - They also won a midweek game last week @ Rice
- - Rice and Houston will both make trips to SHState for rematches later in the year

Memphis hosted #227 Tennessee-Martin (4-9)
- - WIN 11-5
- - They're bad... travel to UAB this weekend!

UAB @ #132 Samford (11-6)
- - LOSS 5-4
- - Rematch on Wednesday! (I expected a split so WIN tomorrow!)

UCF hosted #89 USF (6-9)
- - LOSS 6-5
- - USF had played Florida 4 times (lost all 4 by a score of 4 to 24)
- - The Bulls had also lost 2 of 3 to Elon and Evansville
- - A rematch in Tampa will come very late in the season

Marshall hosted #238 Cleveland State (2-10)
- - LOSS 7-2
- - Cleveland State is horrible
- - UAB swept them earlier this season
- - Next week Marshall will get a shot of redemption in Cleveland

Tuesday Synopsis: Regarding Baseball we had a good day. Marshall should have won but we got solid wins by Tulane, ECU and Houston.

Wednesday:
Tulane hosts #274 Alcorn State (2-9)
- - WIN 12-0
- - USM beat Alcorn 11-5: They give up 8 on Average so I want 15 runs! (I'll take twelve and the shutout! WTG!)

East Carolina hosts #272 Buffalo (2-10)
- - WIN 8-3
- - They give up 11.6 runs per game so maybe we'll score 5
- - Your wondering who #273 is aren't you? Michigan

Houston @ #162 McNeese State (10-7)
- - WIN 14-11
- - They beat the cougars in Houston last week so PAYBACK was had!

Rice hosts #112 Dallas Baptist (10-6)
- - LOSS 3-1
- - They're better than 112... I'd say 110 at the lowest.
- - They can score some runs too so Rice needs to throw a good arm and its the hardest competition they're gonna see all week so don't old out on me Rice.

UAB Rematches Samford (12-6) *Samford won Tuesday Game*
- - another LOSS 9-2

Wednesday Synopsis: The win for Houston was big but a loss for Rice and especially UAB made today a net loss for the conference


WEEKEND SERIES:
Southern Miss @ Cougar Invitational (Charleston)
Face #57 College of Charleston (15-3) *RANKED 23 in Coaches* on Fri.
- - GAME OF THE WEEK
- - WIN 7-2
Face #79 Rhode Island (7-6) on Sat.
- - WIN 4-3 in 15 innings
Face #152 Connecticut (7-7) on Sun.
- - WIN 6-3
TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS

Tulane hosts #197 New Orleans (1-15)
- - WIN 9-2 (Fri)
- - WIN 7-4 (Sat)
- - WIN 7-6 (Sun)
Memphis hosts #252 Eastern Illinois (1-11)
- - LOSS 3-1 (Fri)
- - LOSS 3-4 (Sat)
- - WIN 11-7 (Sun)
East Carolina hosts #168 Rutgers (7-8)
- - ECU already beat them once... after the forth does the broom become a mop?
- - WIN 3-2 (Fri) - Pirates Got Lucky! Tied it 2-2 on a 2 out 2 strike HR in Bot 9th
- - WIN 6-3 (Sat)
- - WIN 6-0 (Sun)
Houston hosts #82 Kent State (7-6) - UAB beat them earlier fwiw
- - WIN 5-3 (Fri)
- - WIN 4-3 (Sat)
- - LOSS 5-8 (Sun)
Rice hosts #146 Lousiana Tech (8-8)
- - WIN 5-1 (Fri)
- - WIN 5-2 (Sat)
- - WIN 11-3 (Sun)
Central Florida hosts #25 Columbia (6-3)
- - Columbia is playing 10 straight days... UCF being on days 8,9 & 10
- - WIN 8-9 (Fri)
- - WIN 5-2 (Sat)
- - WIN 4-2 (Sun)
UAB hosts #255 Tennessee-Martin (4-11)
- - WIN 4-2 (Fri)
- - WIN 2-1 (Sat)
- - WIN 8-6 (Sun)
Marshall hosts #291 St. Bonaventure (4-6)
- - WIN 18-9 (Fri)
- - WIN 14-3 (Sat)
- - LOSS 2-9 (Sun)

Weekend Synopsis: USM poised to make some noise and the rest are poised to allow other teams to make some noise. There is the potential for no worse than a 4 loss weekend. Currently CUSA is 85-49. The W column should see solid growth. UCF can swing the best RPI wins as Columbia has an overinflated ranking to date.
6 SWEEPS this Weekend!