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2011 college baseball - Road to Omaha

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Blitz, May 19, 2011.

  1. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    Uh ... no.
     
  2. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    Who is winning it then?

    Avatars for 2 weeks.
     
  3. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    Oh I don't care who wins it. WSU could very well do it.

    It's just that its program is hated around the rest of the conference for lots of sins, old and not-so-old.
     
  4. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    True statement.
     
  5. SoCalDude

    SoCalDude Active Member

    Not a lot of surprises out West. Fullerton cruising in the Big West. Irvine has a good record but not a good RPI. Oregon State might be better than Fullerton, hard to say. UCLA has great pitching, but hates the new bats. Bruins finish the season with three each against Cal and ASU. Those three teams are shooting for second in the Pac-10. Stanford has a good overall record, but is under .500 in the Pac-10.
     
  6. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    ESPNU broadcast had Oregon State listed as a lock for a national seed, the only Western school on the board.
     
  7. BrianGriffin

    BrianGriffin Active Member

    Odds are against LSU completing a sweep this weekend. The question is, if they don't get in the SEC tournament SHOULD they get in? Will they? Probably. But SHOULD they?

    I've always been against these kind of things. If you can't even make your conference tournament, you shouldn't be in the NCAA tournament. But if there was ever a case for a team not making a conference tournament but getting in, it's here. LSU swept Fullerton, beat Southern Miss and is headed for either a 35-21 or 36-20 season (37-19 if they sweep, but if they sweep they are probably in the SEC tournament anyway).
     
  8. Johnny Dangerously

    Johnny Dangerously Well-Known Member

    Is a five-team tie for the SEC West title at 14-16 still possible?
     
  9. BrianGriffin

    BrianGriffin Active Member

    Not only is it possible, it's not unrealistic. You are looking at things like South Carolina beating Alabama twice, Ole Miss and Arkansas splitting their last two, LSU and MSU splitting and Tennessee winning another against Auburn. None of those scenarios are far-fetched in any way.
     
  10. TrooperBari

    TrooperBari Well-Known Member

    Creighton seems to have a nice head of steam and home-field advantage. Not that playing in Fahey's Boondoggle is any kind of an advantage, of course.
     
  11. Jake_Taylor

    Jake_Taylor Well-Known Member

    Virginia isn't looking as dominant as it was a month ago, but hasn't lost more than once in a week all season and still has a very good chance of going to Omaha. It really depends on what other teams wind up in Charlottesville, but the new bats have helped UVa. A team like Oklahoma isn't going to knock a bunch out of the park against this pitching staff. Not this year.
     
  12. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    Virginia's still in the ACC, right? Thus a gag job, should it get to Omaha, is guaranteed, just like every other ACC team since 1955.

    Actually, not quite true. Carolina lost to a superior team in its back-to-back runner-up seasons.
     
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