The boys in Powder Blue are down 3-0 to Davidson

I have mixed opinions about this score

We like NC in the finals

We don't want to see NC, Florida, or Louisville. Regardless of this outcome, wishing for a team of NC caliber is crazy. As PC stated, past results have zero to do with this team. I'll take every Regional upset moving on I can get. The goal now is a NC, not making a point vs a particular team.

I agree with you 100%.  North Carolina and Florida are both legit national seeds.  Oregon State wants no part of either of them in Omaha.  A championship series against either would be much more difficult than any of the other 30 teams on the other side of the bracket.

To a certain extent, I think that Louisville is a paper tiger.  I would be more concerned about an Arkansas or a Wake Forest from that side of the bracket.

Fun fact: Oregon State has never beaten Florida and has never lost to Louisville.

The last #1 seed to win a game in the College World Series?  #1 North Carolina in 2013 won two but dropped games to unseeded NC State and eventual champion, UCLA.  #1 Virginia beat California twice but lost to #4 South Carolina twice in 2011.  #1 Texas went to the championship series against #3 LSU in 2009.  LSU won the first game 7-6 in 11 innings.  Texas rebounded to win game two but lost game three by seven.  Cal State Fullerton swept #1 Texas in 2004 in the national championship series.  #1 Cal State Fullerton won twice but lost to #4 Stanford twice, 5-2 in 10 innings and 4-1.  #1 Miami was the last #1 seed to win a national championship in 1999, the first year of national seeds.  However, #1 Texas came close twice.  Cal State Fullerton, North Carolina, and Virginia each finished third.  

The last five national champions have been unseeded.  

A fun fact related to that is that the bottom half (2, 3, 6, and 7 seeds) of the bracket has been won by a team out of the six-seed spot, but not the sixth-seeded team, in four of the past five years.  #3 Virginia was the only team to win in that period out of a spot other than the six-seed spot but lost the championship series to unseeded Vanderbilt, even though they outscored Vanderbilt 17-14.

A second fun fact related to the bottom half of the bracket is that a team from the 3- or 6-seed spot has represented the bottom half of the bracket every year but one (#2 Florida in 2011) since 2005.  The #2 seed represented the bottom half of the bracket for the first three years (1999-2001) but, other than 2011, has not since.

The best record for a #1 overall seed previously?  52-8 (.867).  Oregon State this year?  49-4 (.925).  The last time a team finished with a better conference record in the Pac-8/10/12?  In 1971, USC finished 17-0 and, after going 3-1 in the conference tournament, 20-1 in the Pac-8.  USC won the national championship.