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2019 College Baseball Thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Batman, May 27, 2019.

  1. Donny in his element

    Donny in his element Well-Known Member


     
  2. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Mississippi State is a damn solid team. They had one really bad weekend all season long, when they got swept at Arkansas, and have really been playing well the past two months. They're one of those teams where you just never feel like they're out of a game. They'll be dangerous in Omaha.

    Also, now that they're through, that makes two SEC teams in the CWS with a third guaranteed (either Arkansas or Ole Miss) and a fourth (Auburn) possible.
     
  3. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    Care to walk that back?
     
  4. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    But just a few. It is college baseball.
     
  5. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    It's college baseball in Louisiana. LSU's baseball team is far and away more popular than its men's basketball team.
     
  6. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Meanwhile, UCLA goes down and Michigan gets to the CWS for the first time since 1984. The only other Big Ten team to make it in that span was Indiana in 2013.
     
  7. maumann

    maumann Well-Known Member

    Big Ten's last national championship in baseball was 1966.
     
  8. Donny in his element

    Donny in his element Well-Known Member

    If we’re playing the conference pride game, a UNC win also puts 3 from the ACC in the CWS. Would be 3 ACC, 3 SEC, 1 each Big 12 and Big 10. Westernmost school: Texas Tech.
     
  9. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    UCLA did not hit well all year. It caught up to them, and Michigan was a much better team than the NCAA gave it credit for. The Big Ten runnerup should not be a No. 3 regional seed.

    As far as advancing to Omaha, you almost always have to have home regionals/Supers to make it. With only one top-8 seed and only three home regionals, the Pac-12 was going to be limited on how many teams it could advance to Omaha anyway, especially since two of the regionals were paired opposite each other. (I know this happened in other conferences too. But when one conference gets 9-10 teams in, that's gonna happen.) Almost everyone in the Midwest/Northeast was SOL from the start, because those teams didn't even get to host a regional.

    Microville Tech has hosted a regional five times since 2013. The champion of that regional has then won its super and advanced to Omaha all five times.
     
  10. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    So, over the past 60-plus years it has won just as many national titles as the ACC.
     
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  11. maumann

    maumann Well-Known Member

    The "golden age" of Big Ten baseball was 1953-1966, when Michigan, Minnesota and Ohio State combined for six national titles. So four more than the ACC (Wake Forest 1955, Virginia 2015). And that's with Wisconsin dropping the sport.
     
  12. Donny in his element

    Donny in his element Well-Known Member

    True, but Miami wouldn’t automatically not have won those titles if it were in the ACC at the time. The Big Ten can take credit for Nebraska’s 3 CWS appearances of the early 2000s if it wants.
     
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