Host sites and RPI

[Scooter]

Here are the 16 host sites and the RPI of the host schools:
• Atlanta/Georgia Tech #4
• Austin, Texas/Texas #2
• Baton Rouge, La./LSU #10
• Chapel Hill, N.C./UNC #3
• Clemson, S.C./Clemson #7
• Fort Worth, Texas/TCU #8
• Fullerton, Calif./Cal State Fullerton #1
• Gainesville, Fla./Florida #6
• Greenville, N.C./East Carolina #23
• Houston/Rice #12
• Irvine, Calif./UC-Irvine #18
• Louisville, Ky./Louisville #21
• Norman, Okla./Oklahoma #16
• Oxford, Miss./Ole Miss #17
• Tallahassee, Fla./Florida State #14
• Tempe, Ariz./Arizona State #5

Here are the regionals paired according to a typical 1/16, 2/15, ...etc. format (assuming these hosts are all #1 seeds in their respective regionals):

CS-F/ECU
Texas/Louisville
UNC/UC-Irvine
GT/Ole Miss
ASU/OU
Florida/FSU
Clemson/Rice
TCU/LSU

These pairings don't work out exactly because the teams with RPIs of 9 (virginia), 11 (Miami), 13 (Arkansas) and 15 (aggy) were not selected as hosts.

If they would pair the supers like this it I would love to see Texas paired with Louisville. But we know how the selection committee has paired Texas in the past...

 

[torre]

Good work Scooter, Thanks! Also, it will be interesting to see who will be the #2 seed in the Austin regional.

All of us on the board are like kids before Christmas.

 

[roofless]

That's not the way they pair supers. It's more geographical. But with so many likely national seeds from the west (Texas, ASU, UCI, CSF, Rice), the winners of the TCU and Okie regionals are likely headed to CA or Arizona. So a Louisville pairing with Austin wouldn't really surprise me.

Only, Louisville will probably be a No. 2 in that regional. The No. 1 could be KSU, Arkansas or UVA. If it's Arky or Virginia, it's a pretty good chance the winner of that regional will be headed here (assuming we advance to the supers).

 

[Scooter]

I realize that this is not how they pair regionals. However, If they are going to seed the top 8 there is an implication that the entire tournament is seeded. So it is just for fun. And if Texas is the #2 national seed, they should be placed against the "next-to-lowest" #1 seed.

The usefulness of pairing by "seed" is to see if Texas, as the #2 seed, gets screwed or not.

 

[bassale47]

Texas should be the #1 overall seed, and that is the only seed the NCAA has shown any willingness at all to protect in recent seasons, so Louisville would not be out of the question. But the NCAA has shown a great deal of disdain for Texas teams and trying to eliminate all but one of them before Omaha, so it also wouldn't surprise me to see them send the Ft. Worth winner to Austin, which will likely be A&M if they send Aggy up there. If Rice is a national seed, I think they get paired with Oxford. If not, I could see Rice matching up with us and Ft. Worth getting shipped out west. This is just how the NCAA thinks. They don't want two teams from the same state (unless it's California) getting to Omaha.

 

[Scooter]

it's still weird to me that they seed the top 8 and then stop. What's the point? Is having #1 v. #8 at the CWS that important? It's like they can't make up their mind if they want a seeded post-season tourney or a strictly geographic-based tourney.

 

[LonghornGirlie]

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