Upcoming NCAA Baseball Selections

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May 11th, 2014, 09:48 pm
Bandwagon King

Upcoming NCAA Baseball Selections

Quote:

Originally Posted by GoneGolfin

I am firing up the stove. Hang in there. :)

It is the system ... once we adapted to the system (RPI and scheduling) ... and continued to play at a high level ... we were able to reap the rewards.

Brian

How does this make you feel about our baseball chances now sir? PS you a bad man Brian.
May 11th, 2014, 09:52 pm
GoneGolfin

Re: NCAA Softball Selections

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bandwagon King

How does this make you feel about our baseball chances now sir? PS you a bad man Brian.

It is going to be tight. The RPI Top 16 is still very tightly packed. We must sweep this weekend, else we are behind the RPI 8-ball. Home losses are killers. We will see a modest drop in our RPI (value) with a sweep ... factoring in just the ULM series (not our opponents and opponents' opponents performance). The Cajuns will then need to play a very good Sun Belt Tournament in Mobile. There are not many RPI friendly games in the Sun Belt ... and that is all we have remaining before selection time.

Brian
May 11th, 2014, 09:54 pm
Bandwagon King

Re: NCAA Softball Selections

Quote:

Originally Posted by GoneGolfin

It is going to be tight. The RPI Top 16 is still very tightly packed. We must sweep this weekend, else we are behind the RPI 8-ball. Home losses are killers. We will see a modest drop in our RPI (value) with a sweep ... factoring in just the ULM series (not our opponents). The Cajuns will then need to play a very good Sun Belt Tournament in Mobile. There are not many RPI friendly games in the Sun Belt ... and that is all we have remaining before selection time.

Brian

Now this sucks. So let me get this right. You are saying once again that we could win our way all the way to the end of the season & STILL drop out of the RPI top 8 in baseball? Forgive me my softball people for raining on your victory parade.
May 11th, 2014, 09:58 pm
GoneGolfin

Re: NCAA Softball Selections

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bandwagon King

Now this sucks. So let me get this right. You are saying once again that we could win our way all the way to the end of the season & STILL drop out of the RPI top 8 in baseball? Forgive me my softball people for raining on your victory parade.

We are already outside the RPI Top 8 (currently at #9). Our Strength of Schedule is #111. That does not mean that we will not get a national seed, but it gives the committee an opportunity to pass us over. There is also not much RPI space between #9 and #17 ... but the gap has widened a little in the last two weeks.

Brian
May 11th, 2014, 10:00 pm
Bandwagon King

Re: NCAA Softball Selections

Quote:

Originally Posted by GoneGolfin

We are already outside the RPI Top 8 (currently at #9). Our Strength of Schedule is #111. That does not mean that we will not get a national seed, but it gives the committee an opportunity to pass us over. There is also not much RPI space between #9 and #17 ... but the gap has widened a little in the last two weeks.

Brian

Brian

I didn't realize this. So this happened while we were sweeping USA?
May 11th, 2014, 10:02 pm
VObserver

Re: NCAA Softball Selections

BWK, while the SBC is a very good softball conference, baseball pretty much has fallen off the face of the earth.
May 11th, 2014, 10:05 pm
GoneGolfin

Re: NCAA Softball Selections

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bandwagon King

I didn't realize this. So this happened while we were sweeping USA?

Our RPI went up slightly with the sweep of South Alabama on the road. Teams around us moved up a little more.

Warren Nolan Baseball RPI

Brian
May 11th, 2014, 10:07 pm
Bandwagon King

Re: NCAA Softball Selections

Quote:

Originally Posted by GoneGolfin

Our RPI went up slightly with the sweep of South Alabama on the road. Teams around us moved up a little more.

Warren Nolan Baseball RPI

Brian

Damn. The yin & the yang of it all.
May 12th, 2014, 07:47 am
cajunhawk

Re: Upcoming NCAA Baseball Selections

How much did Alabama and LSU not playing the third game hurt us?
May 12th, 2014, 09:17 am
Policarp

Re: Upcoming NCAA Baseball Selections

So we need the LTURds to win at least one against Rice this coming weekend. Gives Rice the double whammy....home loss and RPI hit for playing a very poor team 3 times (OWP).

Why we can't lose.....ULM is not that much better than LTURd in RPI. Same double whammy scenario applies to UL.
May 12th, 2014, 09:38 am
CajunAlum10

Re: Upcoming NCAA Baseball Selections

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Originally Posted by cajunhawk

How much did Alabama and LSU not playing the third game hurt us?

I was wondering the same thing......
May 12th, 2014, 10:12 am
CajunEXPRESS

Re: Upcoming NCAA Baseball Selections

Probably a good thing that game was canceled. LSU very likely to win the series. This way their path is stunted. Bama needs to up their game a lot.
May 12th, 2014, 10:16 am
cajunhawk

Re: Upcoming NCAA Baseball Selections

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Originally Posted by CajunEXPRESS

Probably a good thing that game was canceled. LSU very likely to win the series. This way their path is stunted. Bama needs to up their game a lot.

So Nola was gonna pitch on Sunday too?
May 12th, 2014, 10:53 am
GoneGolfin

Quote:

Originally Posted by Policarp

So we need the LTURds to win at least one against Rice this coming weekend. Gives Rice the double whammy....home loss and RPI hit for playing a very poor team 3 times (OWP).

Why we can't lose.....ULM is not that much better than LTURd in RPI. Same double whammy scenario applies to UL.

Yes, a home loss to ULM will be damaging. But a home loss to LT would be considerably more damaging.

Brian
May 12th, 2014, 02:07 pm
Dad04

Re: Upcoming NCAA Baseball Selections

Quote:

Originally Posted by Policarp

So we need the LTURds to win at least one against Rice this coming weekend. Gives Rice the double whammy....home loss and RPI hit for playing a very poor team 3 times (OWP).

Why we can't lose.....ULM is not that much better than LTURd in RPI. Same double whammy scenario applies to UL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXKeNKvl-J4