2013 College Baseball- Road to Omaha

Little school down the road from me (and tournament virgin) isn't even a 4 seed. Bryant U. #3 in Manhattan, vs. Arkansas. With Wichita State as the #4, smells like uno, dos, adios, though.
Big 2013 for the D-1 newcomer from Smithfield, RI. Men's hoops: from 1 to 19 wins and its first postseason bid (CBI). Men's lacrosse gets its first NCAA bid (coached by Mike Pressler, forced out of Duke by the rape scandal). He's turned down offers from big lax schools out of loyalty to Bryant, which was D-2 when they hired him.

 

Regionals underway today and Bama looks to be in the biggest trouble so far. Down 5-1 to Troy in the seventh.

Clemson keeping with ACC tradition and losing to Liberty early.

 

Clemson played terrible down the stretch. Liberty played great down the stretch. That's kind of holding to form today.

 

Yep. 7-2 Liberty now. And Troy just finished off Bama.

 

Wichita State needed three pitchers to get out of the first inning against K-State. Second inning is just starting and it's already 9-2, Wildcats.

I only briefly watched Troy-Alabama, but this game has been rife with audio difficulties. For awhile at the start, they were having to call the game from a feed in Charlotte. Any other games having issues?

 

Spent way too much time today trying to find the CWS theme song they played one year when I was in college. I learned during this time that there's a startling amount of songs about Omaha.

Anyway, because it made me happy, I'm sharing the fruits of my labor:

 

Has the SEC been taking lessons from the ACC?
Alabama, Florida, Ole Miss and Texas A&M all lost their openers, and Mississippi State isn't a gimme tonight against Central Arkansas. Ye gods.

 

Vandy must have missed that class. Dores are jumping on ETSU early.

EDIT: Final count for the day: The four SEC host teams won, the five who were sent on the road lost. That includes Arkansas losing to Bryant.

 

Bryant won? Awesome!

 

If anyone has Comcast, ESPN is doing whip-around coverage on its whip-around channel on the sports tier. Kind of like they do on college football Saturdays, and big basketball nights, or like the MLB, NFL, NHL and NBA networks do. Good way to take in some of the games outside of your region, if you get it.
No idea if it's on Dish or DirectTV, but since it's an ESPN product I'm guessing it is.

 

Army is eliminated by UNC-Wilmington with one of its biggest fuck-ups since Vietnam.
UNCW led 9-4, top ninth. Army has runners on first and second with no outs and calls a hit and run. The batter strikes out, runner on second delayed his start for third and gets caught in a rundown. He runs back to second, where the other guy is standing. For some reason, the guy from first steps off the bag and is tagged out for out No. 2 just as the lead runner thinks he has to keep going. Lead runner is thrown out five feet short of third base for a game- and season-ending triple play.
Bizarre.

 

Down goes Florida, to mighty Valpo. There's a reason it lost so many regular-season games, and it wasn't because it played a hard schedule. It was an average team that shouldn't even have received a sniff of postseason.

Again the results on the field (which the Selection Committee continues to ignore year after year) suggest that NO conference merits 8 or 9 teams in a 64-team field, and that to have almost half of the at-large bids (15) come from two leagues was a big mistake.