Regional Projections 5/18

[UT Horn Fan]

SEBaseball Regional Projections for 5/18

Discuss.

 

[PitchingGuru]

If the Austin and Ft. Worth regionals match up, I dont care much for it. Of the 8 teams, 5 are in Texas. I guess by keeping teams closer and cutting down on costs the NCAA thinks they are doing everyone a favor. Just makes no sense for the Texas teams to have to eliminate each other.

 

[Barton Hills]

All I know is that I will absolutely riot if Texas and Rice are matched up in the Supers.

Man that would suck.

 

[accuratehorn]

According to that projection, and I know these projections will change after this week's games, Texas will be the #1 seed, and get Binghampton, Texas State and Oregon State in Austin.
The most interesting projection is the TCU regional will get aggy, and match up with the Austin regional in a super regional. Could we be facing aggy again? That could be fun, although they might not get past a good TCU team.

 

[PitchingGuru]

In looking at other regionals and match ups for supers, you could have Kansas/Kansas State and Oklahoma/Oklahoma State and then Texas/A&M all being matched in supers if they all won their respective regionals.

 

[Scooter]

Yeah, I noticed that too. I know it would be impossible to keep teams from the same conference meeting in the regionals, but this projection has too many possible conference matchups.

 

[fall01nk]

1. I don't think Minnesota is going to get a regional. Ohio St. ended up winning the Big Ten. I think Louisville takes it...apparently they have good facilities.

2. I think aggy goes to Rice, and the winner goes to LSU.

3. Oklahoma St. is NOT getting in this tournament. No chance.

4. I'm still not sold on us being #1. Don't think it happens.

 

[torre]

Tim Weiser, Asst Commissioner Athletics, Big 12, is the Chairman of the NCAA selection committee this year. He was interviewed during the Kans/KState TV broadcast Sunday.

He is a KState grad and seems like a "sharp invididual" who understands the process and would try to prevent as many conference matchups as possible. He did mention that geographic considerations to reduce cost/time of travel is a factor, but I trust the committee to prevent as many conference matchups as possible for not only the Big 12, but nationally. IMO, SEBaseball is the least credible of the media services.

 

[Alex_de_Large]

How can Okie St. go to a regional when they don't even make the Big 12 tournament?

 

[Valmy77]

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[LITNIN HORN]

Okie state can get a bid the same way Arkansas did a year or so ago, when they had a losing record in the SEC and didn't make the conference tournament.

 

[Austin Orange]

Here is how ESPN has it as of May 18th:

Austin Regional
No. 1 Texas
Texas State
Oregon State
Wagner Forth Worth Regional
TCU
Kansas State
Dallas Baptist
Missouri State

Oxford Regional
No. 8 Ole Miss
Middle Tennessee
Baylor
Eastern Illinois Tallahassee Regional
Florida State
Georgia Southern
Troy
Bethune-Cookman

Baton Rouge Regional
No. 4 LSU
Ohio State
Southeastern Louisiana
Southern Houston Regional
Rice
Texas A&M
BYU
Dartmouth

Chapel Hill Regional
No. 5 North Carolina
Elon
George Mason
Binghamton Greenville Regional
East Carolina
Virginia
Vanderbilt
Manhattan

Tempe Regional
No. 3 Arizona State
Minnesota
Cal Poly
Gonzaga Norman Regional
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Washington State
Oral Roberts

Fullerton Regional
No. 6 Cal State Fullerton
Coastal Carolina
San Diego State
San Jose State Gainesville Regional
Florida
Miami
Illinois
Jacksonville

Irvine Regional
No. 2 UC Irvine
Missouri
Boston College
Army Clemson Regional
Clemson
South Carolina
Western Carolina
Kent State

Atlanta Regional
No. 7 Georgia Tech
Georgia
Kansas
Illinois-Chicago Louisville Regional
Alabama
Louisville
Western Kentucky
Dayton

 

[GemStateJim]

I know it's a topsy-turvy year and that no team has emerged as a dominant power, but I just don't see our 'Horns meriting a No.1 overall seed. They certainly deserve to host a super regional, but as the best team in the country?

Perhaps they'll prove me otherwise this weekend.

 

[Wishbonemac]

I liked the early projection that had Ohio State coming here.

We can't beat those rust-belt thugs enough to suit me.Not even Randy Christal could have helped them this time.

Maurice Clarett's blog is even better than Martellus's.

 

[UT Horn Fan]

Rivals.com projections 5/20

TX #2

 

[warrior]

Hope I am wrong but this Texas team seems overranked to me.

 

[roofless]

It's the hitting. Per NCAA.com, we're 236th in the country in slugging percentage, which is DEAD LAST among the 48 contenders (I define "contenders" as the Rivals.com predicted top 3 seeds in each region).

And it's really not even close. Only 3 other teams (Mizzou, Wash St., SDSU) are below 200, and we're at least 50 spots away from the next serious contender.

We've got excellent pitching, great defense. But you have to score runs to win ballgames. Average pitchers usually shut us down. I'm very worried about what the good ones will do.