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(06-05-2018 11:24 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  
(06-05-2018 10:44 AM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  
(06-05-2018 08:11 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  It took until Tuesday morning for all the regionals to be decided, but we finally have our Baseball Super-Regional matchups. These teams will play best 2 out of 3 series this weekend with the winners advancing to the College World Series in Ohama.

The SEC leads the way with 6 teams in the Super Regionals, and because they all play each other, 3 SEC teams will be in the College World Series. The PAC, ACC, and Big 12 all have two entrants. The B1G, Atlantic Sun, Ohio Valley, and Big West also put teams in the SRs. Note that if you are looking for Cinderella stories, schools like Cal-State Fullerton and Stetson do not count, as they are baseball powers despite their zero profile in hoops and football. The SRs:

Florida vs Auburn

Texas Tech vs Duke

Arkansas vs South Carolina

Texas vs Tennessee Tech

Washington vs Cal-State Fullerton

Vanderbilt vs Mississippi State

Stetson vs North Carolina

Minnesota vs Oregon State


Regarding regional seeds, of the 16 top seeds in the regions, 8 of them advanced to the SRs. Six #2 seeds won their regions, while two #3 seeds (CSF and Washington) advanced. No #4 seeds won a regional.

Any school with the name "Stetson" is automatically a Cinderella by rule.

I get that. Does it suck that we bowed out of the Deland regional without putting up much of a fight? Yes it does. But our baseball is getting better, I'm optimistic about it.

For now, let's congratulate the Hatters on their first super-regional. They aren't any kind of threat to USF in the big picture of things in Florida.

I honestly thought USF would make it out of this regional. We could and should have.
06-06-2018 11:33 AM
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RE: College Baseball Sweet 16 (Super-Regionals) ...
(06-06-2018 08:28 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  
(06-06-2018 08:19 AM)bullet Wrote:  
(06-05-2018 11:15 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  
(06-05-2018 10:05 AM)Wedge Wrote:  C'mon, guys, get serious. Big Ten schools with $100 million athletic budgets are never Cinderellas; they're the raptors from Jurassic Park.

The Cinderella in the super regionals is Tennessee Tech.

Yes, but they were a #2 seed, which means they were highly regarded going in to the tournament.

But no question, beating Ole Miss twice to win that regional is a fantastic outcome for them.

It was interesting how many of the regionals were won by an unbeaten team. That extra game was only required in 3 or 4 of the 16 regionals, despite the fact that there were a lot of 2 and 3 seeds winning.

That stood out for me, and also the number of teams that came from behind. E.g., Duke and Tennessee Tech both beat the #1 seed twice on the last day to win their regionals, that doesn't happen very often.

Well that only happens when one of two things are present.

1. You have a much deeper bullpen than the average college baseball team. This usually means that you have a couple of very reliable relievers who are also starting position players. Tennessee Tech had that. And Duke's pitching staff may be one of the deepest in the tournament.

2. You have a tremendous offensive lineup. Duke has hitters up and down the batting order and Tennessee Tech is the strongest team in the tournament when it comes to slugging.

Winning on Day 4 by taking two games usually means the favored schools weren't deep in pitching. Sometimes, but less often, it means they got outslugged.

I wouldn't be surprised at all to see Tennessee Tech advance to the CWS and if they do I think they will be better positioned to win it all than most of the other entrants. Their vulnerability in this this field will be with starting pitching positions #1 & #2. They have very solid pitching but not MLB top draft selection kind of starting pitching. But Texas would be hard pressed to take them down in a round robin field where pitching is depleted faster. If Tennessee Tech takes either game 1 or game 2 from Texas they will beat the beat the Horns in the third game.

Ole Miss was a very solid SEC baseball team. They won their first game with Tennessee Tech 9-8 with a solid pitcher starting the game. They didn't commit a bunch of errors or simply have a bad day. They were beaten by a more complete team.

Auburn was fortunate to survive Tennessee Tech in the Tallahassee regional last year, but surviving them depleted our pitching staff and likely kept us from winning that regional. Tech lost a pitching dual early and had a loss. What they didn't have last year was a solid #3 starter. They've got that this year along with depth in relief. They are going to be a very tough out the rest of the way.
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RE: College Baseball Sweet 16 (Super-Regionals) ...
Auburn's reward? The #1 overall seed and defending national champs. Yikes
06-06-2018 01:21 PM
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RE: College Baseball Sweet 16 (Super-Regionals) ...
(06-06-2018 01:21 PM)jdgaucho Wrote:  Auburn's reward? The #1 overall seed and defending national champs. Yikes

We took 1 of 3 from them in Gainesville and could easily have won 2. We didn't have our starting rotation set then and hadn't developed the bullpen. That has all changed as one of our freshman, Bryan, has really come on strong for us down the stretch and when he is on his fast ball and slider are almost as good as Mize's. I think we have a shot. And on top of that the Gators have a couple of key injuries in various stages of recovery.
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RE: College Baseball Sweet 16 (Super-Regionals) ...
(06-05-2018 08:11 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  It took until Tuesday morning for all the regionals to be decided, but we finally have our Baseball Super-Regional matchups. These teams will play best 2 out of 3 series this weekend with the winners advancing to the College World Series in Ohama.
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(06-05-2018 11:04 PM)JRsec Wrote:  
(06-05-2018 08:11 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  It took until Tuesday morning for all the regionals to be decided, but we finally have our Baseball Super-Regional matchups. These teams will play best 2 out of 3 series this weekend with the winners advancing to the College World Series in Ohama.

The SEC leads the way with 6 teams in the Super Regionals, and because they all play each other, 3 SEC teams will be in the College World Series. The PAC, ACC, and Big 12 all have two entrants. The B1G, Atlantic Sun, Ohio Valley, and Big West also put teams in the SRs. Note that if you are looking for Cinderella stories, schools like Cal-State Fullerton and Stetson do not count, as they are baseball powers despite their zero profile in hoops and football. The SRs:

Florida vs Auburn

Texas Tech vs Duke

Arkansas vs South Carolina

Texas vs Tennessee Tech

Washington vs Cal-State Fullerton

Vanderbilt vs Mississippi State

Stetson vs North Carolina

Minnesota vs Oregon State


Regarding regional seeds, of the 16 top seeds in the regions, 8 of them advanced to the SRs. Six #2 seeds won their regions, while two #3 seeds (CSF and Washington) advanced. No #4 seeds won a regional.

I'm sure they will paint Tennessee Tech as a Cinderella, but they are far from it. This team was packed last year and they have since added pitching depth to a lineup that has hit almost 40 more home runs than any other Division I school this year. Texas will have its hands full. BTW I agree that Stetson and CSF are not Cinderellas either. Chipper Jones was a Hatter and his Stetson school fields a solid team annually and CSF has been a perennial baseball power for quite some time.
Lineups aside, if they're a low- or mid-major that hasn't been to the CWS before, they'll get treated like one. The CWS pulls from the same 40 or so schools every year, and if you're not on the list, you're a Cinderella.
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(06-05-2018 08:22 AM)CardinalJim Wrote:  If I had to pick a Cinderella team out of that group it would be Minnesota. For a far Northern team with the weather disadvantages they face to make it to the Supers is commendable.
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Yeah, Minnesota, Texas Tech, and Stetson all qualify as Cinderella's. (I know Stetson is growing, but they are not regularly here by any means.)

Fullerton has more baseball history than half the teams in Supers.
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RE: College Baseball Sweet 16 (Super-Regionals) ...
TTU is a Cinderella. No team from the OVC had ever been to a Super Regional before.
06-07-2018 11:36 AM
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