BIG XII Top 8 seeds vs. Tournament field

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BIG XII vs. NCAA Tourny field
15-6 Oklahoma State (won every series against Big 12 teams in the tourny)
15-11 TAMU (9-9 vs. Big 12 teams in the tourny)
14-13 Texas (2-8 vs. OSU, NU, MU....7-1 vs. OU, TAMU)
10-10 Missouri
10-11 Nebraska
12-14 Oklahoma

Top 8 seeds vs. NCAA Tourny field
18-5 Miami (lost only one series all year - it was to UNC)
13-9 North Carolina (#2 seed? really?)
16-6 Arizona State (8-1 vs. non-conf tourny teams)
14-8 Florida State
17-13 CS-Fullerton (30 of 56 games vs. the field - impressive)
19-10 Rice (6-1 vs. BIG XII)
20-10 LSU (won 12 straight vs. tourny field)
19-14 Georgia (2 and BBQ in SEC tourny)
 
Interesting stats...

Although I will say that anyone who looks at stats at all for this Texas team is missing the big picture. This is a completely different team over the last 3-4 weeks.

OMAHA ME!!!!

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The postseason is also a completely different animal than the regular season, and Augie Garrido is one of few coaches who truly understand that. What you did in the regular season has zilch to do with how you're going to perform in the postseason. This is where discipline and mental toughness become absolutely crucial.
 
TX also lost 2 of 3 to Satnford and they are not in the analysis above.
Bassale, I appreciate your advocacy and positive spin, but we mainly look better now because we were so ****** early on. We are not a good team. We ARE getting better.
 
It's not positive spin. I have been following Texas baseball for years, just like a lot of you have. I didn't just jump on the bandwagon a month ago.

This IS a good baseball team right now, and they couldn't have a better coach leading the way. I have no delusions of grandeur about them being a definite Omaha participant or even a definite super regional participant. But I don't think you could say that any other team in America is that either. That doesn't mean the Longhorns aren't good.

I am not comparing the way they are playing now to the way they played earlier in the year. If you don't think this is a team that is playing very good baseball right now, regardless of how they played two months ago, then you haven't been paying attention.

The Horns have their weaknesses, namely relief pitching. But this isn't about who has the fewest or most irrelevant weaknesses. It's about who does the best job of working around them. And Texas has as good a chance as any of the 63 other teams who are still standing.
 
I am paying attn.... and we are not a very good team....we achieved " mediocre" about 2 weeks and are improving.
If you didn't see the near meltdowns vs OU and KSU, you aren't paying attention. We are hgetting better but we are still very inconsistent.
 
I think the issue that Texas and Rice are really well coached should not be overlooked. My guess is that the Rice players and coaches feel as slighted as the Texas players and coaches do by the NCAA. BA said that the committee punished Rice. No doubt, the #1 seed has a tougher first day opponent than the #2 in this regional. At this point Graham and Garrido know pretty much everything about everyone on the other side. Each team knows how to pitch the other team to minimize power and this is going to come down to execution. If Texas and Rice met on Saturday night there will be lots of tension in the air and the first one who blinks is going to lose. Over the years I have seen a bunch of these games and they are some of the best games I have seen. Too bad the NCAA did not put this of for at least another week, because the winner is going to walk over whoever comes out of retardville.
 
The biggest difference in this team now versus earlier in the season is the defense. We are not only making the routine plays, which we were not doing earlier this season, but we are making a lot of spectacular plays as well.

The starting pitching has also been much better as of late.

Middle relief is our weakness and there are ways to work around that in a regional.

And if you actually think this team "is not very good" let me ask you one question.....

How many teams do you think would want Texas in their regional this weekend ?
 
From what I can figure, yes, we have some problems with relief pitching, but let's not measure even that element of our ability against what Cole Green did/didn't do for us this past weekend. Take his two disasters out of the equation and I suspect that overall our relief pitching does not look as weak as it does with his crappy performances thrown in.

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As to the near meltdown" vs KSU. We blew a 9-1 lead in one inning that got them back in the game . They had zero pitching lefy and we pulled away. Earlier this year, we would have lost that game.

I don't disagree w jimmyjazz....we are a top 20 -25 team and yes have a shot at advancing to Omaha. But why shouldn't we ..... we have every advantage known to man.
Good luck to the Horns. We are improving
 
I do feel the Super will be easier than the Regional. Tough assignment-to get by Rice, but Rice has a tough assignment as well. We will see how far the Horns have progressed.
 
I've never heard of a Top 20 team that had a shot to make it to Omaha that wasn't a good team.

We are a good team playing good ball right now and we are improving.

Ask Coach Graham if we're a good team.
 
I think if this team plays up to there potentail they have just as good a shot as anyone in the field, at making a deep run to omaha.
 
Well, we only gave up 2. That was enough to bury our *** in the consolation bracket. It will take more than a "good" team to dig themselves out of this hole.
 
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