NCAA Baseball Action tonight ...

[NOCajun]

#24 Rice (RPI #11) is getting CRUSHED by Lamar right now...

Lamar 10
Rice 1 Bottom 8th

[angeleast]

other teams helping us oUt !!!!!!!!!!!!

[NOCajun]

Not UTA...

Texas 10
UTA 2 Final

[Yep]

Sam Houston St. making errors in the wrong spot. This inning is getting out of control.

Houston up 5-2 with bases loaded in the 8th.

[Policarp]

so USC lost to a team ranked lower than UNO; Rice getting bombed by an average Southland team; Louisville loses to in-state rival KY; Houston on the ropes to the 3rd place Southland team. Only need a USM miracle comeback and pretty much all the top teams needing an L to help our cause are getting the L.

[J-Town Cajun]

Things have changed I think - If the Cajuns are ranked #1 end season, they will be the national #1 seed in my opinion. If a close call as to who should get the top seed, the lean will go to Cajuns because its a story and attracts attention to the NCAA tourney. The national media will eat that up - Ragin Cajuns #1 national seed - its a talking point.

You can take it to the house - if Cajuns are ranked #1 in the polls, they are the national #1 seed even if out of the top 5 in RPI.

This is exactly the reason I posted a few days ago that I believe we can still lose 4 and maybe 5 games and still be a national seed. It will be the perception that may get us the national seed. Assume we win out our non-conference games and take 2 out of 3 in 4 of the remaining 5 conference series and lose 1 in the conference tournament that will be 5 loses. Under this circumstances I believe we will still be a national seed even if our RPI is at say #12-14. If this team only loses 5 more games and wins the conference tournament we will finish the season with 50 wins before selection day. No way we don't get a national seed.

[CajunRage]

This is exactly the reason I posted a few days ago that I believe we can still lose 4 and maybe 5 games and still be a national seed. It will be the perception that may get us the national seed. Assume we win out our non-conference games and take 2 out of 3 in 4 of the remaining 5 conference series and lose 1 in the conference tournament that will be 5 loses. Under this circumstances I believe we will still be a national seed even if our RPI is at say #12-14. If this team only loses 5 more games and wins the conference tournament we will finish the season with 50 wins before selection day. No way we don't get a national seed.

That's wishful thinking. We are as high as we are right now for one reason. The 4 in the loss column. We start dropping games to sunbelt teams, we will fall out of national seed consideration. We don't have to sweep the rest of the weekends, but have to come close to it. stAte is the only team left on our schedule worth anything. I'd say dropping one there and possibly one at South is the most we can lose.

[cajunhawk]

That's wishful thinking. We are as high as we are right now for one reason. The 4 in the loss column. We start dropping games to sunbelt teams, we will fall out of national seed consideration. We don't have to sweep the rest of the weekends, but have to come close to it. stAte is the only team left on our schedule worth anything. I'd say dropping one there and possibly one at South is the most we can lose.

Every loss for us the rest of the way save for maybe Arkansas State is considered a "bad loss". So we need to dominate and close out the season without anymore bad losses to clinch that national seed. But...it's baseball...sometimes bad games happen. It's gonna be tough but if any team can do it...it's us.

[cajundiehard]

Western Kentucky with a nice chance to get a quality win tonight at Indiana (#18). Through 7 innings, WKU is throwing a no hitter. No score going to the 8th. Western's best chance was lead-off double followed by single with runner thrown out at the plate in the top of the 7th...



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[CajunJack55]

South Carolina loses again tonight. This time to The Citadel.