Tourney selection: It is obvious that the committee did not consider conference tourney performance at all. No other way to explain numerous teams who stunk it up in their respective tournies and INCREASED their seedings (UF, LSU, FSU) while others (MSU) who shined there decreased their seeding.
Pitching strategy: Given our depth I am OK with whomever starts friday. My initial thought however is that we have to be able to beat the #3 seed with our #2. It would also give us the potential mental advantage of making FSU face our ace especially since they have HFA. Worked in the SECT where we saved Strat for LSU. Ultimately though, tournaments are wars of attrition. Depth of staff tends to win the day over a stud #1 or even #2 followed by duds thereafter and out of the pen.
We just have to stay hot. I was talking to a gamecock friend at church and fretting about who we would pitch on sunday to which he replied it didn't matter because we were hot and you know what, he was right!
Pitching strategy: Given our depth I am OK with whomever starts friday. My initial thought however is that we have to be able to beat the #3 seed with our #2. It would also give us the potential mental advantage of making FSU face our ace especially since they have HFA. Worked in the SECT where we saved Strat for LSU. Ultimately though, tournaments are wars of attrition. Depth of staff tends to win the day over a stud #1 or even #2 followed by duds thereafter and out of the pen.
We just have to stay hot. I was talking to a gamecock friend at church and fretting about who we would pitch on sunday to which he replied it didn't matter because we were hot and you know what, he was right!