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This is really a tough year to predict. There's no real front-runner, so any one of about a dozen teams could end up winning this thing. This is more like throwing darts.
- Florida (probably the closest thing to a lock to make it to Omaha)
- South Carolina (the presumptive 8/9 matchup with Virginia in the Super Regional, if Virginia can make it past Oklahoma in its Regional)
- Oregon (got stuck with a good CS-Fullerton team in the Regional, and then will probably have to play an underrated Kentucky team in the Super Regional. Could stumble in either. Not solid on this pick at all)
- Rice (the only thing I can tell you about the Texas bracket is Prairie View won't win it. Any of the other seven teams could. Going with Rice on the basis of tradition and experience. Tossup with Baylor.)
- Texas A&M (UCLA got screwed here. A&M might have the best pitching in the country. And New Mexico might make some noise)
- LSU (look out for a hot Oregon State team in the Regional. The only team that could give them trouble coming out of Coral Gables is USF)
- Arizona (the Chapel Hill Regional is a joke. The Tucson Regional has land mines. After Kurt Heyer, the Wildcats' pitching is suspect, and they have virtually no power in their lineup, but they keep winning games they should lose)
- Mississippi State (Stanford was a trendy pick a month ago, but they've been scuffling since they went to Corvallis and lost a series, and then they lost a series to Cal this past weekend. I won't believe in Florida State until they win a big game on the western side of the Mississippi River)
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Well I'm sure you know who I'm rooting for!
Go Oregon!
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alz wrote:
Well I'm sure you know who I'm rooting for!
Go Oregon!
It's hard to tell whether the Pac 12 has a bunch of average teams, or a bunch of very good teams who kept knocking each other off. The Ducks took two of three at UCLA and at Sunken Diamond, and then they came home and lost two of three to Wazoo.
OSU sweeps Arizona State in Tempe, takes two of three from UCLA and Stanford, but in between coughs up two of three to USC, and loses a game to a dreadful Utah team.
UCLA is probably the best team in the Pac 12, and the Bruins have won 14 of their last 16, but that includes sweeps of Washington, Cal and USC. UCLA doesn't have the starting pitching it had last year, but the bullpen is lights out.
This year's ASU team was one of the weakest I can remember, and they still finished two games behind UCLA in the Pac 12 standings. So I'm kind of leaning toward a disappointing tournament for the conference.
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Two days in and seven #1 seeds are in the loser's bracket, including Miami, which went two and cue.
Misread on the Pac 12 so far. The conference is 9-1. The caveat is Stanford, UofA, Oregon and UCLA are all 2-0 playing at home. The Supers ought to be a bigger test. Where did Arizona get all this offense from?
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13 spots decided, five pending.
Observations thus far ...
- Most surprising team still alive: If it beats UCF today, it's Stony Brook. If not, it's St. John's. Kent State winning three in a row albeit in a weak regional should also be noted.
- Most surprising team that's out: I really thought Texas A&M was going to do some damage.
- Most dominant team: I can hardly bring myself to write this, but it's Arizona. Scoring 47 runs in three games in the BBCOR era is phenomenal. And they host St. John's in the Super Regional. Look out.
- Best conference: Duh. The Pac 12 went 14-2, and had four of its five teams advance. And LSU needed 10 innings to shed OSU yesterday, in Baton Rogue.
- Worst conference: Another duh. The Atlantic Toast Conference. Seven teams qualify; one or two teams advance, depending upon the outcome of Vandy/N.C. State. When is the selection committee going to wake up and figure out the ACC deserves half as many bids at it gets every year?
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Pac 12 has 4 teams in supers, as does the SEC , the SEC has 2 more opportunities tonight if Mississippi and Vandy should get in .....
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Stony Brook, TCU, Oklahoma in ... Baylor on its way ... NC State takes the lead in the ninth ...
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Records by conference:
SEC - 19-8
Pac 12 - 14-2
ACC - 14-11
Big 12 - 10-6
Big East - 5-2
Mountain West - 5-3
Southern - 5-6
America East - 4-1
Conference USA - 4-8
Mid-American 3-0
Missouri Valley 3-6
Big 10 - 1-4
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Arkansas wins against Baylor in the bottom of the 9th on bases loaded consecutive hit batsman , 5 to 4 . Series tied 1 all
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Arizona, UCLA, Florida State, Florida, Stony Brook in.
Game 3s in Waco and Eugene today.
South Carolina and Oklahoma still dancing through the raindrops in Columbia ...
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South Carolina in.....
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Kent St. joins the party ..
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Ark. squeaks by Baylor 1-0 ......