Final Week of Sun Belt Play

[Dad04]

Sunbelt strength of schedule is now 11th of 31 leagues per Boyd's World. in 2003-2004 it in the 5-6 range.

http://www.boydsworld.com/baseball/isr/confisr.html

[CajunVic]

I believe the moons are aligning and we got this. Sunbelt Tournament Champs.

[wcd35]

Pitching decisions should be made on a must-win mindset at the tournament. Dont have the "luxury" of losing one and coming back like in double elimination, because a single loss could very well end your chances mathematically. Nut cutting time

[MelRock]

The reason it is so important to be the number 1 or number 2 seed is, you could literally lose your second game and advance.

Here an example as the number 1 or 2 seed.
Team A is the number 6 seed in the West, Team B is the number 4 seed in the East, and Team C is the number 1 seed in the West.
Team A plays Team B on Tuesday and Team A wins.
Team A plays Team C on Wednesday, if Team C Wins then the worst they can finish is 1-1 in pool play.
Team C's game on Thursday is for nothing, they could pitch the backup catcher. Even if they lose the game, they will still advance because all teams will have a 1-1 record. For this to happen, the higher-seeded team would want the team they are playing first to be the winner of the first game in their pool.

The same situation for the number 2 seed in each division, but they would play on different days.

As stated several times, we need to keep pace with Little Rock on wins this weekend and win one more game than UTA. Both of those situations are very doable.

[CrazyCajun]

Maybe listen to Deggs interview with Scott....or read the article? He isn’t planning on turning things upside down he just talks about the scenarios.

[Jacob81]

Warrennolan has the sunbelt ranked 10. Not great but miles ahead of basketball!!

[Boomer]

Warrennolan has the sunbelt ranked 10. Not great but miles ahead of basketball!!

.....Are the baseball and softball tourneys double elimination?

[JayWalker]

Things could get turned upside down if we don't play on Thursday because of weather.

[Cajunsmike]

Assuming weather does not allow us to play on Thursday. Why could we not play two on Saturday or Friday for that matter. Day night doubleheader on Friday is something that could be considered. I understand not playing on Sunday with tournament starting Tuesday.

[MelRock]

Assuming weather does not allow us to play on Thursday. Why could we not play two on Saturday or Friday for that matter. Day night doubleheader on Friday is something that could be considered. I understand not playing on Sunday with tournament starting Tuesday.

I am sure that is the plan, Mike. I think Jay's post is more about pushing the pitching back another day will create new problems or challenges. I will ask Coach about it today.

[NewsCopy]

The Louisiana Baseball team is set to host Troy for the final weekend of the regular season. The Ragin' Cajuns are still in the hunt for a Sun Belt Conference West Division title.

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[NewsCopy]

The description of the many uneasy decisions his coaching staff has to make this weekend was clear in the assessment delivered by UL coach Matt Deggs.

“It’s not checkers anymore, it’s chess,” Deggs said in discussing all the many obstacles and ramifications surrounding the final Sun Belt Conference weekend series against Troy beginning 6 p.m. Thursday at Russo Park.

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