Road to Omaha thread

NCAA releases 16 regional sites. As usual, very SEC/ACC-centric and the west gets hosed. Pac-12 has won four of the last eight titles and its second-place team, which goes 39-14-1 overall and 21-9 in conference, doesn't even get to host.

Your regional sites: Ole Miss, Cal Poly, Oklahoma State, Florida State, Rice, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisville, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, TCU, Oregon State and Florida.

Pairings and top 8 seeds announced Monday. Dollars to donuts the Oregon State and Cal Poly regionals will be paired.

 

There will probably be six texas teams combined in the Rice & TCU regionals

1. Rice
2. Texas
3. Sam Houston
4. Midwest or Northeast slapdick

1. TCU
2. Houston
3. Texas A&M
4. Midwest or Northeast slapdick

 

The Pac 12 was pretty down this year. I get that they sometimes get dicked. Not sure this year is one of them.

 

Wasn't one of the goals in the new system to try to keep teams closer to home? So maybe it just makes more sense geographically to send Central Connecticut State to Tallahassee, Fla. or Miami than to Corvallis, Oregon.

What's surprising to me is that Texas, Texas A&M nor LSU are hosting a series.

 

OP only lists 12 hosts. Looks like Indiana, LSU, Miami and UVa are the four hosts that weren't listed.

 

I've got to think the ACC and SEC sites are given preference simply due to stadium size. The Pac-12 has one on-campus stadium over 5,000 seats. The SEC has nine, the ACC six. The NCAA loves to make money.

 

As DanOregon said, it's also largely about attendance, not deserving to host. And the teams in the South draw like crazy, always have.

Unless you count Hawaii, the only West Coast team in the top 20 in attendance this year is Arizona State, at No. 20.

http://www.collegebaseballdaily.com/2013/05/20/ncaa-attendance-report-may-20th/

 

Wrong! Corvallis and Stillwater paired up.

 

Can't believe the Aggies & Longhorns are in the same regional.

 

Anybody who showed they can really play is already a pro. They showed their stuff early and took their seven-fig bonus. The CWS is full of either late bloomers, or kids who made a bad decision signing D-I, or kids just glad to get a partial ride through college.

 

That regional is brutal with Texas, A&M and Rice. But you'll find a lot of happy people around Texas that the Aggies and Longhorns are playing again, even if it's just baseball for now.

 

Of American-born players to win baseball's top awards in this century, most (Max Scherzer, David Price, Justin Verlander, Cliff Lee, RA Dickey, Tim Lincecum, Buster Posey, Ryan Braun, Dustin Pedroia, Brandon Webb, Randy Johnson, Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi, Barry Zito, Jeff Kent) played college baseball.