Uk going in as the 2 seed overall
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Awful awful draw. Almost everyone had Indiana St hosting we get them as the number 2 overall. Then when get an underseeded Oregon St. team. Terrible draw for UK
That is a tough draw. ISU probably should have hosted their own regional and Illinois were reg season Big10 champs.
How does seeding work in baseball?
If ISU was in the running to host a regional how are they falling to our bracket?
Geography nonsense?
If ISU was in the running to host a regional how are they falling to our bracket?
Geography nonsense?
Often they do geography, but doesn't seem like that was the case as much this year.
2 Louisiana teams sent to Corvallis says you are right. No justification for ISU being in Lexington imo.
When you have 12 Sec teams or whatever- the remaining 2 seeds left are limited/ also will not play Sec if make to Super.
Meh, I don't get the "we got screwed' comments. I'm guessing that the logic is that Indiana state is #10 in RPI?
Here's why I don't mind our draw (it wasn't the BEST draw, but certainly wasn't the worst (I would argue that UT, UNC, Okie State, Arizona, A&M all got tougher draws).
1. Indiana state may be number 10 in the RPI but they're still a mid major with less talent than some of the other options that might have come in here as a 2 seed (Wake Forest, Texas, Duke, WVU, just to name a few).
2. Illinois is a big ten team that's decent just as Indiana was last year. You saw how that turned out.
3. I'd rather play Western Michigan than NKU. NKU beat Mizzou and gave Georgia all they wanted.
4. Oregon state is a paper tiger. They didn't win the Pac 12 regular season or tourney titles and no way they'd be happy flying all the way to Lexington for a super.
The baseball committee is dumb, and they make no effort to seed on an S curve. If they did, you wouldn't have Indiana state coming here, you wouldn't have LSU going to UNC, etc. But, I was really worried we'd see Duke or Texas or Arizona (thinking they would not have been a host), so let's go play our game and we're going to go to Omaha.
Here's why I don't mind our draw (it wasn't the BEST draw, but certainly wasn't the worst (I would argue that UT, UNC, Okie State, Arizona, A&M all got tougher draws).
1. Indiana state may be number 10 in the RPI but they're still a mid major with less talent than some of the other options that might have come in here as a 2 seed (Wake Forest, Texas, Duke, WVU, just to name a few).
2. Illinois is a big ten team that's decent just as Indiana was last year. You saw how that turned out.
3. I'd rather play Western Michigan than NKU. NKU beat Mizzou and gave Georgia all they wanted.
4. Oregon state is a paper tiger. They didn't win the Pac 12 regular season or tourney titles and no way they'd be happy flying all the way to Lexington for a super.
The baseball committee is dumb, and they make no effort to seed on an S curve. If they did, you wouldn't have Indiana state coming here, you wouldn't have LSU going to UNC, etc. But, I was really worried we'd see Duke or Texas or Arizona (thinking they would not have been a host), so let's go play our game and we're going to go to Omaha.
Indiana State couldn’t host last year due to a conflict. Wonder if they had that same conflict this year?
They hosted a regional last year but couldn't host supers against TCU due to a conflict.
Indiana State is good ... but if we can't beat a MVC team, we have no business being the No. 2 overall seed.
They are 1-4 against Q1 teams this year. Their last Top 50 RPI win of the season was Xavier in mid-March.
They are 1-4 against Q1 teams this year. Their last Top 50 RPI win of the season was Xavier in mid-March.
They are 3-6 against Q1 and 10-8 against q1 and q2. They have three really solid pitchers and have hit 101 home runs in a bigger ballpark than UK plays in. They played one of the toughest NC schedules in the nation.
I figured they'd have us possibly hosting LSU in the Super Regional, glad I was wrong. A path to the CWS with no SEC teams in the way sounds good to me.
They’ve not seen a set of hitters like the UK lineup will give.
What’s the thought on rotation for Uk - G1 and on
Disagree. I think USM is at least as good as Indiana state, and to me, Indiana and Illinois are interchangeable. I'd also rather play Western Michigan instead of NKU (NKU won a series against Mizzou and lost two one run weekend games to UGA).
Should both teams get that far, UT would possibly have to play wake forest with their former ace chase burns pitching in game 1 (he is right up there with Hagen smith when you're talking about the best pitchers in the country).
We didn't get an easy draw, but I think it's more manageable than that which was given to UT.
Everyone worried about Indiana State ... and they didn't even beat Illinois.
Cats weren't great today, but won without throwing its top pitcher. Everything is setup perfectly with a win on Saturday.
Cats weren't great today, but won without throwing its top pitcher. Everything is setup perfectly with a win on Saturday.