Since mississippi choked away another shot at a ....

[cowbell9]

..championship in baseball, it leaves Bama to overtake LSU. Which means, it will take us winning to give bama a shot. Can it happen?

Buy.

 

[graddawg]

Well, they are mathematically still in the Conference Championship race. Their chances are slim but your post reminds me of people calling for Stansbury's head 10 minutes into a game only to see us come back and win.

 

[cowbell9]

nm

 

[RebelBruiser]

Yes, we're a long shot. We'll likely have to pull a sweep this weekend to have a shot, and then we'd need MSU and Auburn to both do us a favor and win at least 1 game over LSU and Bama. If we do that, we'll have a shot at earning at least a share of the SEC title, which would be another banner despite losing the tiebreaker to LSU, since we never end up on the right side of those things.

I think the odds of you taking more than 1 from LSU are pretty slim, and I think the odds of us sweeping in Fayetteville are pretty slim as well. Having each of those things happen and having Auburn take at least 1 from Bama are even longer odds, so our chances at an outright, non-split, title where we get the 1 seed are slim to none.

All that said, I was a little surprised at how little losing 2 of 3 this weekend affected our RPI. I think we came into the weekend at No. 17 in the RPI. We played a team at home that was pretty low in the RPI. We lost 2, and we've dropped at worst 1 spot. We dropped 1 spot last week after sweeping Auburn, so I can officially say that I don't get it. I know how the formula works, but those things still don't make sense.

 

[RebelBruiser]

They've now lost 5 straight in the SEC. Two schools of thought there. They'll either continue their skid, or they'll regroup and play well with their backs against the wall.

 

[RobbieRandolph]

nt

 

[RebelBruiser]

They had lost 8 straight (7 straight in the SEC) prior to pulling out the late one run win against Vandy.

All I know is that when they were in Oxford, they were still hot. The middle of that order is wicked. I really don't get what has happened to them. They close with a very tough series at a South Carolina team that seems to be hitting its stride. Fortunately for them they clinched their SEC tourney berth already, but they are well on the decline.

They were 14-5 after beating us in the Friday night game, and I believe they had a 2 game overall lead in the SEC. Eight games later, they are 5th in the SEC, half a game ahead of Arkansas, and there is a very good chance they could fall to 6th, or even 7th in the SEC if they lose 2 at South Carolina this weekend. If SC can sweep them, they may fall all the way to 8th.

 

[KurtRambis4]

dugout shirt will do the trick. <>

 

[8dog]

of course, as I've said before, its hard to tell b/c so much emphasis seems to be placed on the SEC tourney.

Alabama has really made things a mess with their run.

Etheridge has 25 teams competing for 16 slots (6 SEC teams). You have to think around 8 of those are locks so its probably 17 teams for 8 slots or something like that (Im speculating)