College Baseball

[Hoos]

UVA 40-12-1.

[DRiccio21]

UConn advances to Big East Semifinal with a 4-2 win over South Florida, they improve to 35-23 on the season.

[DRiccio21]

http://www.bigeast.org/newMediaPlayer/c ... emid=19400


hysterical video of the 5 hour rain delay in the UConn v USF game

it gets pretty creative at some points

[LetsGoPeay]

Down go the Buckeyes! Indiana advances to the final of the Big Televen tournament with a huge 12-3 win over top seeded Ohio State. The Hoosiers are rollin' right now. They await the winner of Minnesota-OSU in the losers bracket.

[Cnasty]

The Canes are having a unCanesesque season.

No other way to put it.

[DRiccio21]

UConn on ESPNU right now in the semifinals of BET... they are still unbeaten in winners bracket so they need to win 1 of 2 to make BET final.

[mcx79]

Florida has bowed out of the SEC losing twice to Arkansas... Very upsetting, but they should still get invited to a region somewhere.

[shel311]

LSU beats UGA 16-0 today, now we play them again tomorrow, winner adavnces to the championship of the SEC Tourney.

A couple more wins and we may have the #1 overall seed, at least top 3 right now, I'd think.

[Waldo]

LSU won the 2nd game 3-2 and will play Vandy tomorrow for the SEC Crown. I think they at least locked up a top 4 seed and have a chance at #1 still.

[nick]

i dont get college baseball.

is it now regionals? and then super regionals? and is regionals the equivilent to march madness in terms of seedings?

and then the best make super regionals in same seeding then world series?

fill me in please.

i played NCAA Baseball 06? and i won it all with OU lol. but i had no idea what was up I just kept playing lol

[shel311]

I got your back Nick.

Right now is just the conferece tournies, so nothing different there.

64 teams make the tourney, just like in NCAA.

But you have 16 separate 4 team, double elimination tournies, called regionals.

At that point, every team is seeded 1 through 16 as well. So, the #1 team in the nation, if they win there regional, they play the winner of the #16 team's regional, and so on and so forth.

So, now you have 16 regionals winners, so you have 8 three game series from there, called super regionals.

Obviously, you will have 8 Super Regionals winners, and that makes up the College World Series, a whole new double elimination tourney.

[shel311]

Oh, and 1 more thing just for reference.

It's extremely important for a top team to try and secure a 8th seed or better for regionals, because the Supr regionals 3 game series is played at your home field if so.

So, that is why you'll see a LOT of talk about the top 8 national seeds.

[TheRealDray]

gotta love them starting the first game in that deluge. wild pitches and hit batsmen really start off a game well, then to not complete the inning to have same conditions for both teams for 1 inning. First pitch should have been delayed.

Also, why was the 2nd game only 7 innings? I read even the announcers didnt know what was going on. Negates alot of the winners bracket advantage since lsu had less rest for their bullpen than UGA did.

I am pretty sure UGA is in to regionals still, but hate to see them not make it official(by winning tourney)

[nick]

I got your back Nick.

Right now is just the conferece tournies, so nothing different there.

64 teams make the tourney, just like in NCAA.

But you have 16 separate 4 team, double elimination tournies, called regionals.

At that point, every team is seeded 1 through 16 as well. So, the #1 team in the nation, if they win there regional, they play the winner of the #16 team's regional, and so on and so forth.

So, now you have 16 regionals winners, so you have 8 three game series from there, called super regionals.

Obviously, you will have 8 Super Regionals winners, and that makes up the College World Series, a whole new double elimination tourney.

ahhh alright. only part i didnt get is the whole after regional.

Q though. lets say in the seeds 1-16, in the #1 seed, the #1 tea overall loses to say the #4 team in that seeding (which im gonna pressume is the 64th team overall)... are they now the #1 seed in super regionals?

or do they take all the remaining teams and base them 1-16 and then make the groups?

[shel311]

No, they don't reseed after regionals.

Think of each 4 team regional as 1 "team" so to speak in a 16 team regional.

There spot on the bracket wont change, whoever wins the #1 team's regional is playing the winner of the #16 teams' regional.

Furthermore, if the #64 team wins, they don't become the #1 team, per se. For example, if the #16 team wins there regional, the #16 team will host the Super regional.

I hope this makes sense. It's really not hard to understand, but hard to explain. It'd be a lot easier if you could see the brackets online.

[shel311]

This isn't perfect, but it may help, last year's top 8 seeds, and then the brackets:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_NCAA_ ... Tournament

[nick]

ahh alright i get it.

I remember last year Arizona was a #1 and Mich #2 and it was in Ann Arbor.. strange

[DRiccio21]

UConn won again and is in the BET finals

[Waldo]

gotta love them starting the first game in that deluge. wild pitches and hit batsmen really start off a game well, then to not complete the inning to have same conditions for both teams for 1 inning. First pitch should have been delayed.

Also, why was the 2nd game only 7 innings? I read even the announcers didnt know what was going on. Negates alot of the winners bracket advantage since lsu had less rest for their bullpen than UGA did.

I am pretty sure UGA is in to regionals still, but hate to see them not make it official(by winning tourney)

I think the SEC officials decided to make the 2nd game only 7 innings because the teams had already played a game that day and were on inning #14.

[mcx79]

last years CWS was wild also. It really did not matter what your seed was and absolutely no one could pitch..lol