Preseason Regional Projections from College Baseball Daily

http://www.collegebaseballdaily.com/2014...-feb-10th/

Rice - 1 seed and Regional host
ECU- 2 Seed at Chapel Hill
FAU- 2 Seed in Raleigh
Tulane- 3 Seed in Baton Rouge

Hopefully we will have 5th with Southern Miss. I think we have as good of a shot as Tulane of making a regional this year.

As does UTSA. I think we have been largely overlooked in all these projections (sounds like football). If one thing is certain we should have a very competitive and exciting baseball season

I'm not-yet familiar with UTSA baseball, but Southern Miss definitely has as good a shot as Tulane to make it to a regional. (A better chance, probably.)

Niners will be there (I hope).

(02-10-2014 12:38 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  I'm not-yet familiar with UTSA baseball, but Southern Miss definitely has as good a shot as Tulane to make it to a regional. (A better chance, probably.)

UTSA won the WAC in 2013 and had Oregon St beat in the NCAA tournament until they blew the save. Oregon St won on a walk of double. They are returning many starters including the pitching staff and should do well this year.

Good lord can we EVER miss the Chapel Hill or Columbia regionals?!?!

I wish I could say I'm confident we will be good this year, but I'm not... Yikes.

If we go to chapel hill again I'll puke

I'd be real happy if Tulane went to Tallahassee or Louisville. One is just a 2 hour drive and the other is where my sister lives.

One of the regionals is going to be in Ruston...I kid...I kid

Just make sure one of you make it to Omaha so I'll have a team to cheer for.

(02-10-2014 05:00 PM)DowdyPirate Wrote:  If we go to chapel hill again I'll puke

I puke every time I go to Chapel Hill too.

(02-10-2014 12:07 PM)EaglehasLanded Wrote:  Hopefully we will have 5th with Southern Miss. I think we have as good of a shot as Tulane of making a regional this year.

Speaking of which, I'm not understanding why Tulane got a first place vote in the preseason poll and is projected to make a regional.

They hit .250 with ten home runs as a team last year....and lost their best hitter and a couple other starters.

Their pitching staff lost Rizzotti, Napoli, and Byo. Unless LeBlanc is ready to take a big step or McKenzie magically returns to pre-injury form, there's little returning other than their closer.

I'm assuming they brought in an unbelievable recruiting class for them to have any expectations?

(02-11-2014 01:54 PM)eaglenjxn Wrote:  

(02-10-2014 12:07 PM)EaglehasLanded Wrote:  Hopefully we will have 5th with Southern Miss. I think we have as good of a shot as Tulane of making a regional this year.

Speaking of which, I'm not understanding why Tulane got a first place vote in the preseason poll and is projected to make a regional.

They hit .250 with ten home runs as a team last year....and lost their best hitter and a couple other starters.

Their pitching staff lost Rizzotti, Napoli, and Byo. Unless LeBlanc is ready to take a big step or McKenzie magically returns to pre-injury form, there's little returning other than their closer.

I'm assuming they brought in an unbelievable recruiting class for them to have any expectations?

eaglejxn, we did lose a lot, but that is not all that bad after the production those seniors had last year. We will be starting up to 6 newcomers this Friday, including 5 true freshman (includes #2 shortstop in high school) in the field and our starter on the mound. This is the best class Jones has had in 10 years, but I tend to agree with you regarding how high we are projected in CUSA. You never know what to expect out of freshman.

(02-11-2014 03:41 PM)GANG_GREEN Wrote:  

(02-11-2014 01:54 PM)eaglenjxn Wrote:  

(02-10-2014 12:07 PM)EaglehasLanded Wrote:  Hopefully we will have 5th with Southern Miss. I think we have as good of a shot as Tulane of making a regional this year.

Speaking of which, I'm not understanding why Tulane got a first place vote in the preseason poll and is projected to make a regional.

They hit .250 with ten home runs as a team last year....and lost their best hitter and a couple other starters.

Their pitching staff lost Rizzotti, Napoli, and Byo. Unless LeBlanc is ready to take a big step or McKenzie magically returns to pre-injury form, there's little returning other than their closer.

I'm assuming they brought in an unbelievable recruiting class for them to have any expectations?

eaglejxn, we did lose a lot, but that is not all that bad after the production those seniors had last year. We will be starting up to 6 newcomers this Friday, including 5 true freshman (includes #2 shortstop in high school) in the field and our starter on the mound. This is the best class Jones has had in 10 years, but I tend to agree with you regarding how high we are projected in CUSA. You never know what to expect out of freshman.

I really expected a lot from that Cannizaro-Crohan-Boudreaux class. Weird how that whole group absolutely dropped off a cliff after great freshman seasons. I guess they just never got a feel for the new bats?

Hope you guys get back in your groove--at least for this last season in C-USA. USM-Tulane was always THE rivalry in C-USA. We better be scheduling a weekend series for OOC play in the future.