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Post by chinmusic on May 26, 2021 9:10:45 GMT -8
Baseball America and D1 Baseball are forecasting this week's Field of 64 and the Beavs could be headed south in BA's new Regional alignment,
D1 Baseball seeding:
Gonzaga Regional (Spokane): Oregon State #2, Pittsburgh #3, Virginia Commonwealth #4
Baseball America seeding:
Tennessee Regional (Knoxville): Georgia Tech #2, Oregon State #3, Lehigh #4
* Baseball America doesn't think Gonzaga will host a Regional.
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Post by spudbeaver on May 26, 2021 9:21:57 GMT -8
I agree! Oh, you meant literally. Never mind.
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Post by chinmusic on May 26, 2021 11:27:08 GMT -8
Yes, there is that dimension to it as well.
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on May 26, 2021 13:34:09 GMT -8
Baseball America and D1 Baseball are forecasting this week's Field of 64 and the Beavs could be headed south in BA's new Regional alignment, D1 Baseball seeding:Gonzaga Regional (Spokane): Oregon State #2, Pittsburgh #3, Virginia Commonwealth #4 Baseball America seeding:
Tennessee Regional (Knoxville): Georgia Tech #2, Oregon State #3, Lehigh #4 * Baseball America doesn't think Gonzaga will host a Regional. What a garbage projection! None of the West teams are ranked as high in the Baseball America projection as they are in the D1 Baseball projection. No California. Usual Baseball America Southeast-enabling garbage. The D1 Baseball projection has Gonzaga as a host. In the Baseball America projection, they have South Carolina as a two hosting Old Dominion as a traveling one in a Columbia Regional. In D1's projection, Old Dominion is the two that travels to Knoxville, and South Carolina travels to Greenville. In Baseball America, Gonzaga travels to Eugene as a two. Garbage. Having gotten that out of my system, is there a softer two than Georgia Tech? I get that they won the Coastal Division, but that is only because the finale of Wake Forest @ Miami rained out back in March. Miami beat Georgia Tech two-out-of-three 10 days ago! If Oregon State is a three, having Georgia Tech as the two has to be some kind of dream scenario. D1 has Oregon State playing Pittsburgh to play Gonzaga-Virginia Commonwealth. If I am being honest, I do not really care what RPI says, each of the three seeds in D1's Spokane Regional is better than the three seeds in Baseball America's Knoxville Regional. (Pittsburgh beat Georgia Tech in Atlanta back in March.) I don't think that Tennessee is as good as Gonzaga is. But, I think that Florida, Mississippi and Mississippi State are a softer ones. Tennessee beat Florida two-out-of-three, and the Gators beat Ole Miss two-out-of-three and also just mercy ruled the Mississippi State 13-1 in seven innings in Hoover. Charlotte would also be ideal, because I am not sold on them either. If you could package Georgia Tech with a one that's worse than Tennessee, man, that could set up a fun run for Oregon State. |
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Post by beaver56 on May 27, 2021 5:06:31 GMT -8
Tennessee not as good as Gonzaga??? That is extremely laughable.
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Post by scythe on May 27, 2021 6:47:47 GMT -8
Tennessee not as good as Gonzaga??? That is extremely laughable. Well, #4 Tennessee lost in 11 innings to Alabama in the SEC tourney. It is baseball and anyone can be beaten on any given day. However, at this point in the season top teams should not be losing games to unranked opponents. |
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Post by beavs6 on May 27, 2021 7:36:00 GMT -8
Tennessee not as good as Gonzaga??? That is extremely laughable. Well, #4 Tennessee lost in 11 innings to Alabama in the SEC tourney. It is baseball and anyone can be beaten on any given day. However, at this point in the season top teams should not be losing games to unranked opponents. One argument would be (and the one most widely used by ESPN) that the SEC is really just that tough and deep. "Look, a top ranked baseball team can lose to a non-ranked baseball team this late in the season. DEPTH!" Crazy  |
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Post by scythe on May 27, 2021 8:53:02 GMT -8
Well, #4 Tennessee lost in 11 innings to Alabama in the SEC tourney. It is baseball and anyone can be beaten on any given day. However, at this point in the season top teams should not be losing games to unranked opponents. One argument would be (and the one most widely used by ESPN) that the SEC is really just that tough and deep. "Look, a top ranked baseball team can lose to a non-ranked baseball team this late in the season. DEPTH!" Crazy Yes, the SEC is a good baseball conference. So is the PAC12. However, the SEC enjoys a lot of media love and receives preferential treatment by the $NCAA$. Alabama baseball is not Alabama football. It’s possible Tennessee is overrated. One thing about the SEC tourney is none of the coaches of top ranked teams care about it. The do not want to burn through their pitching before the NCAA tourney. I have a bet an SEC team will not win the CWS this year. We will see. |
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Post by lotrader on May 27, 2021 9:24:48 GMT -8
Well, #4 Tennessee lost in 11 innings to Alabama in the SEC tourney. It is baseball and anyone can be beaten on any given day. However, at this point in the season top teams should not be losing games to unranked opponents. One argument would be (and the one most widely used by ESPN) that the SEC is really just that tough and deep. "Look, a top ranked baseball team can lose to a non-ranked baseball team this late in the season. DEPTH!" Crazy OSU basketball was suppose to lose to Tennessee in Men's Basketball....just sayin |
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Post by chinmusic on May 27, 2021 13:29:56 GMT -8
Rawlings - Perfect Game is headqurtered in Carey, N.C.
Baseball America America is located in Durham, N.C.
Wilky . . . . you have a keen eye for the obvious.
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on May 27, 2021 14:02:22 GMT -8
Tennessee not as good as Gonzaga??? That is extremely laughable. Tennessee did have that amazing 11-inning home win against Indiana State (after coughing up a 5-0 sixth inning lead) to salvage a home split against the mighty Sycamores of Indiana State. Tennessee also has an impressive 9-0 loss to Charlotte. Oregon State's total SOS is 24th. Tennessee's SOS is 23rd. Of the top five teams in the SEC East--Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Vandy--Tennessee played the softest schedule both inside the SEC and outside the SEC. Tennessee's non-conference SOS is 155th. Of the top 10 SEC teams, only Ole Miss played a softer non-conference slate. Of the top 10 SEC teams, only Mississippi State (which went 0-2 in the Tournament, the second loss to Tennessee) played an easier conference schedule. Vanderbilt beat Tennessee twice in Knoxville and would have won the East had it not been for rain wiping out the third Bama-Vandy game 18 days ago. The Vols ran up a 20-10 record in the SEC but got #1, #4 and #6 at home and missed SEC #3 and #5. Tennessee blew the two home series against #1 and #4. No series against #3 and #5. The Vols went a great 18-6 against the bottom nine in the SEC. Gonzaga beat TCU at Fort Worth two-games-to-one. That is better than anything that Tennessee has done all year. The Vols best road win was in Columbia against a South Carolina team, which finished seventh in the SEC. I have not been that impressed with Tennessee. They may have the best infield in the SEC and maybe the second best 1-2-3 pitching staff. The Vols seem to be able to hit righties hard but seem to have a real problem with talented lefties. I would throw Hjerpe out there and hope that you can manufacture one run to pull off a 1-0 victory and then hope that the staff holds together to win the rematch or the Championship Game. I tend to think that Gonzaga poses more problems. Honestly, though, neither Gonzaga nor Tennessee really scare me all that much. As long as Greg Street (or similar) is not behind the dish, the Beavers beats one or the other or the Beavers beat themselves. |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on May 27, 2021 14:21:18 GMT -8
Baseball America and D1 Baseball are forecasting this week's Field of 64 and the Beavs could be headed south in BA's new Regional alignment, D1 Baseball seeding:Gonzaga Regional (Spokane): Oregon State #2, Pittsburgh #3, Virginia Commonwealth #4 Baseball America seeding:
Tennessee Regional (Knoxville): Georgia Tech #2, Oregon State #3, Lehigh #4 * Baseball America doesn't think Gonzaga will host a Regional. Gonzaga Regional (Spokane): Nebraska #2, Oregon State #3, Northeastern #4 Updated Baseball America seeding:Notre Dame Regional (South Bend): Michigan #2, Oregon State #3, Central Michigan #4 Oregon State not playing dropped Oregon State from a #2-seed to a #3-seed in the D1 Baseball projection. Notre Dame is one of the three or four teams that I most do not want to see in a Regional. I see Michigan as better than Georgia Tech, and Central Michigan as better than Lehigh. All-in-all, I would see that South Bend Regional as a very difficult region to escape from. In the updated D1 Baseball projection, I see Nebraska and Northeastern as a tougher set of teams than Pittsburgh and Virginia Commonwealth. Hopefully, the real brackets look better than these two. |
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