The Book 2007 Ragin' Cajun Baseball

[Just1More]

_ "Ragin’ Cajun Edge Lamar in Pitcher’s Dual "

Shouldn't that headline read "Pitcher's Duel" _

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[GoneGolfin]

For fun, SEBaseball.com ran the NCAA Baseball RPI numbers using the Basketball Formula today. Here are the results ...

Of course, with the NCAA Basketball RPI, a road game win is worth more than a neutral game win which is worth more than a home win. This is principally why the Cajuns are at #6 with this formula (13 wins on the road). Also, all road wins against top competition are eligible for RPI bonuses (even conference games).

-r RPI Team
1 0.63719 Vanderbilt
2 0.635318 Rice
3 0.631669 South Carolina
4 0.610223 Virginia
5 0.60956 Wichita State
6 0.605878 University of Louisiana
7 0.605636 Arkansas
8 0.605089 Texas A&M
9 0.604514 Arizona State
10 0.603184 Long Beach State
11 0.601958 Texas
12 0.601262 Mississippi State
13 0.599165 Mississippi
14 0.597671 San Diego
15 0.597553 Coastal Carolina
16 0.597118 Florida State
17 0.595661 North Carolina
18 0.594581 Oklahoma
19 0.593745 Arizona
20 0.590524 Minnesota
21 0.588937 Oregon State
22 0.588012 Michigan
23 0.587629 Cal State Fullerton
24 0.587409 Missouri
25 0.58735 Nebraska
26 0.587042 UC Irvine
27 0.586484 Pepperdine
28 0.583933 East Carolina
29 0.581736 Western Carolina
30 0.5805 North Carolina State
31 0.580432 College of Charleston
32 0.577015 Kansas State
33 0.576494 Clemson
34 0.575972 Stetson
35 0.573201 Creighton
36 0.571404 Louisville
37 0.569918 Rutgers
38 0.569508 Memphis
39 0.569361 Miami Florida
40 0.569091 Central Michigan
41 0.568827 Southern California
42 0.567898 Florida
43 0.567762 Evansville
44 0.567434 Troy
45 0.564727 Texas Christian
46 0.564458 Louisiana State
47 0.563369 Eastern Michigan
48 0.560785 Southern Mississippi
49 0.559594 Georgia Tech
50 0.558868 Boston College
51 0.558834 Houston
52 0.55836 Oral Roberts
53 0.557504 UCLA
54 0.555269 Wake Forest
55 0.555136 Virginia Tech
56 0.554672 Auburn
57 0.554169 Oklahoma State
58 0.548891 Southern Illinois
59 0.547145 Middle Tennessee State
60 0.546921 North Carolina-Charlotte
61 0.546506 South Florida
62 0.54451 High Point
63 0.54431 Lafayette
64 0.54392 UC Riverside
65 0.54383 Baylor
66 0.543341 Texas State
67 0.543063 Virginia Military
68 0.542505 Kentucky
69 0.542206 Duke
70 0.540472 Pittsburgh
71 0.538513 Gonzaga
72 0.538037 Iowa
73 0.537972 Texas-San Antonio
74 0.537801 Tulane
75 0.53502 Washington State
76 0.532614 Northern Illinois
77 0.53242 Brigham Young
78 0.532303 Dallas Baptist
79 0.531685 Louisiana-Monroe
80 0.531538 Southeastern Louisiana
81 0.531117 St John's
82 0.530647 Richmond
83 0.530147 Jacksonville State
84 0.530096 Illinois State
85 0.529209 Purdue
86 0.529159 Xavier
87 0.528845 Cal Poly
88 0.528568 Kansas
89 0.528404 Penn State
90 0.528102 Santa Clara
91 0.527817 Florida Atlantic
92 0.527782 Michigan State
93 0.527509 Texas Tech
94 0.527312 Stanford
95 0.527301 New Orleans
96 0.525711 Northeastern
97 0.524231 Miami Ohio
98 0.522095 Stephen F. Austin
99 0.521227 Kennesaw State
100 0.520505 Mercer
101 0.519997 Ohio State
102 0.519815 The Citadel
103 0.519603 California
104 0.519289 Monmouth
105 0.519004 Maryland
106 0.518647 Central Connecticut State
107 0.517225 Lipscomb
108 0.517209 Sam Houston State
109 0.516304 Connecticut
110 0.516131 Manhattan
111 0.515923 Missouri State
112 0.515659 Washington
113 0.515545 San Diego State
114 0.514418 Illinois-Chicago
115 0.513368 Liberty
116 0.512938 Alabama
117 0.51261 Fresno State
118 0.512519 Virginia Commonwealth
119 0.512512 Tennessee
120 0.512457 Georgia Southern
121 0.512426 Indiana State
122 0.511812 Central Florida
123 0.511341 East Tennessee State
124 0.51103 San Francisco
125 0.510029 Lamar
126 0.50957 Austin Peay State
127 0.509324 Elon
128 0.509258 Western Kentucky
129 0.509205 Bradley
130 0.508026 Louisiana Tech
131 0.507691 William and Mary
132 0.506629 Nevada-Las Vegas
133 0.506164 Winthrop
134 0.505507 North Carolina-Wilmington
135 0.505394 North Carolina-Greensboro
136 0.504503 Northwestern State
137 0.504022 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
138 0.503543 Seton Hall
139 0.502807 Appalachian State
140 0.502214 Jacksonville
141 0.501619 UC Santa Barbara
142 0.501333 Kent State
143 0.501127 Old Dominion
144 0.500815 Nevada
145 0.500222 Belmont
146 0.500169 South Dakota State
147 0.500021 South Alabama
148 0.49973 Villanova
149 0.499295 Loyola Marymount
150 0.498566 Northern Iowa
151 0.49827 Samford
152 0.498024 North Carolina-Asheville
153 0.496221 Army
154 0.495938 LeMoyne
155 0.495766 Mount St Mary's
156 0.493583 Southeast Missouri State
157 0.493234 George Mason
158 0.493153 Georgia State
159 0.492508 Notre Dame
160 0.492383 West Virginia
161 0.492046 Bethune-Cookman
162 0.491573 Binghamton
163 0.491235 Stony Brook
164 0.490765 Georgia
165 0.490578 Akron
166 0.49029 Illinois
167 0.490093 Towson
168 0.489092 Portland
169 0.48891 New Mexico
170 0.488687 North Florida
171 0.485869 James Madison
172 0.485787 Arkansas State
173 0.485727 Alabama-Birmingham
174 0.484695 Brown
175 0.482991 Quinnipiac
176 0.482281 Hawaii
177 0.481988 Ball State
178 0.479718 Eastern Illinois
179 0.479547 Navy
180 0.478874 Fordham
181 0.478511 McNeese State
182 0.477465 Maine
183 0.477112 Murray State
184 0.476243 Albany
185 0.474525 Cal State Northridge
186 0.473653 Florida International
187 0.473278 Rhode Island
188 0.473228 Wofford
189 0.472991 Longwood
190 0.472514 Harvard
191 0.47103 UC Davis
192 0.470303 Delaware
193 0.468995 Central Arkansas
194 0.468843 San Jose State
195 0.468739 George Washington
196 0.468639 Utah
197 0.468552 Cincinnati
198 0.468142 Arkansas-Little Rock
199 0.468123 Wright State
200 0.46811 North Carolina A&T
201 0.466677 Furman
202 0.466022 Princeton
203 0.46588 Gardner-Webb
204 0.465558 Western Illinois
205 0.465491 Columbia
206 0.463068 Hartford
207 0.462264 Duquesne
208 0.462075 Rider
209 0.462039 Marshall
210 0.459443 Wisconsin-Milwaukee
211 0.458886 Vermont
212 0.45778 Texas-Arlington
213 0.456064 Radford
214 0.455928 Indiana
215 0.455266 St Mary's
216 0.455011 Toledo
217 0.453843 Marist
218 0.45366 Bucknell
219 0.453583 New York Tech
220 0.452195 Dayton
221 0.45028 Savannah State
222 0.450043 Sacred Heart
223 0.449829 Campbell
224 0.44969 Northern Colorado
225 0.449431 St Louis
226 0.448634 Tennessee Tech
227 0.447044 Utah Valley State
228 0.446764 Temple
229 0.446397 Texas-Pan American
230 0.445182 Youngstown State
231 0.444225 New Mexico State
232 0.443997 Pennsylvania
233 0.442981 Hofstra
234 0.441786 Bowling Green State
235 0.440786 Western Michigan
236 0.439612 Davidson
237 0.438427 Prairie View A&M
238 0.435988 Cal State Sacramento
239 0.435113 Holy Cross
240 0.434235 St Bonaventure
241 0.433726 Cornell
242 0.43329 Charleston Southern
243 0.433276 Norfolk State
244 0.433184 Pacific
245 0.43253 St Peter's
246 0.43216 Cleveland State
247 0.432128 Georgetown
248 0.431063 Wagner
249 0.429855 Northwestern
250 0.429633 Massachusetts
251 0.427848 Valparaiso
252 0.427277 Oakland
253 0.426387 Arkansas-Pine Bluff
254 0.426106 Yale
255 0.425815 Niagara
256 0.425705 Siena
257 0.423149 Iona
258 0.421011 Fairleigh Dickinson
259 0.417948 LaSalle
260 0.417582 North Dakota State
261 0.416856 Southern
262 0.41562 Mississippi Valley State
263 0.410815 Fairfield
264 0.40957 Texas Southern
265 0.409416 Canisius
266 0.408193 Lehigh
267 0.407656 Nicholls State
268 0.405513 New Jersey Tech
269 0.403883 Jackson State
270 0.403772 Long Island
271 0.403443 Tennessee-Martin
272 0.400066 Eastern Kentucky
273 0.399052 Delaware State
274 0.391189 Southern Utah
275 0.389657 Butler
276 0.387832 Grambling State
277 0.387053 Centenary
278 0.386461 Ohio
279 0.385609 Buffalo
280 0.383605 Florida A&M
281 0.383123 St Joseph's
282 0.376341 Dartmouth
283 0.365297 Alcorn State
284 0.362044 Hawaii-Hilo
285 0.361421 Air Force
286 0.361117 IUPU-Fort Wayne
287 0.351623 Chicago State
288 0.349985 Maryland-Baltimore County
289 0.348455 Morehead State
290 0.342761 Coppin State
291 0.340349 Maryland-Eastern Shore
292 0.338151 Alabama State
293 0.313895 Alabama A&M

Brian

[GoneGolfin]

Notice how far Tulane falls in this formula. The Greenies will play precious few non-conference road games this season.

[J-Town Cajun]

It is interesting to see UL is the highest rated team not from one of the power conference. Also noted is the teams from SEC who play a ton of home games such as LSU dropped.

[GoneGolfin]

It is interesting to see UL is the highest rated team not from one of the power conference. Also noted is the teams from SEC who play a ton of home games such as LSU dropped.

Yep. And as I stated earlier ... Wichita State, San Diego, and Louisiana are the only teams in the real RPI Top 20 that have played more road games than home games. And predictably they are considerably higher in the basketball version of the RPI. And Tulane takes a huge drop.

Brian

[NewsCopy]

His team is in the national top 20 RPI-wise, they're on the cusp of breaking into several national polls and they sit atop the Sun Belt Conference race. The opponent has a losing record overall and in the league, and is coming off being swept at home by a conference rival. Taking things for granted? Not a chance, said UL baseball coach Tony Robichaux, whose squad hosts Arkansas State in a weekend Sun Belt series beginning tonight. "What's good about this team is they don't play to their opponent," Robichaux said Thursday after the Cajuns wrapped up preparation for the three-game slate. "They've been able to take care of a lot of mid-week games that we couldn't win last year. The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

[NewsCopy]

'Twas an ill wind, indeed, for Arkansas State's baseball Indians Saturday. The Moore Field wind helped blow UL catcher Jonathan Lucroy's fly ball over the left-field fence in the eighth inning, breaking a 7-7 tie. Four batters later, the wind helped Ragin' Cajun outfielder Jefferies Tatford's towering shot down the right-field line stay fair for a three-run homer. Suddenly, the Ragin' Cajuns had escaped with an 11-7 victory over the Indians, and now stand one win away from their third Sun Belt Conference sweep of the season. The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

[NewsCopy]

Home runs by Jonathan Lucroy and Jefferies Tatford in the bottom of the eighth inning helped UL's baseball team snap a 7-7 tie and claim an 11-7 win over Arkansas State Saturday afternoon in the middle game of their Sun Belt Conference series at Moore Field. The Cajuns (32-12, 15-5), hanging onto a two-game lead in the Sun Belt race, rallied from an early 4-1 deficit and took their second straight comeback win in the series. UL, now 19-1 at home this year, had taken an 11inning 6-5 victory on Friday in the series opener. The Cajun squad will go for its third Sun Belt sweep of the season in today's 1:05 p.m. game. Lucroy's 12th homer of the season came off losing pitcher Tim Egart (2-4) with one out in the eighth. After singles by Scott Hawkins and Matt Hicks, Tatford sent a drive down the right-field line that stayed fair and gave the Cajuns the four-run advantage. The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

[ulforlife]

Sorry guys, I am in no way a fair-weather fan but after what I saw this past weekend these guys better start stepping it up. To go out and only score 2 runs in front of a home crowd against one of the worst teams in the Sun Belt is down right disgusting. You can say "hey, it's baseball" all you want, but this is not what gets a team success in the NCAA tournament. There should be no reason why the whole team should suffer because a few guys are in a slump, and you can't blame the pitchers for having trouble because they are getting NO run support. Like I said, I love the Cajuns but I have much higher expectations.

[BrockMeaux]

Like the softball team, we tend to play better against out-of-conference teams. Conference games are ALWAYS tougher because of familiarity, even when there's a clear talent disparity. It's not really an excuse, they should perform better, but the occurance isn't a huge mystery or anomaly, either. It happens to everybody.