BB Final: Louisiana 9, Houston Christian 10

[Jacob81]

What concerns me is our pitching staff being god awful for back to back games

…. To back to back

[Jacob81]

I’ll say if we get to selection Monday with less than 20 losses and 40 wins we get in. So go 8-5 the rest of the way and 1-2 in the conf tourney. Thats 40-19 at selection time. We get to that number we’re in. JMO.

[Big Buds]

I don’t understand how some on here still had hope to host. We could have swept Coastal and won tonight and we still weren’t hosting. Turn the page on that one.

[Jacob81]

I’m not sure who you’re talking about but if we won those games. We would have 9 losses. Anybody with only 9 losses in a top 5 conference still had a shot to host.

[Big Buds]

I’m not sure who you’re talking about but if we won those games. We would have 9 losses. Anybody with only 9 losses in a top 5 conference still had a shot to host.

I’m talking about everyone saying our hosting opportunities are now gone…they were gone when we lost 2/3 to rice and lost 4 Q4 games before the Coastal series. I’m not dogging anyone out, but we were never hosting with our RPI.

[Jacob81]

I get it. But if you start 9-8 then go 37-2, the committee takes that into account.

[Big Buds]

I get it. But if you start 9-8 then go 37-2, the committee takes that into account.

I don’t think they do. Especially when you have SBC on your sleeve and an RPI of 26, general estimation as to where we would land on selection Sunday in this hypothetical scenario.

[Cajun90]

I don’t think they do. Especially when you have SBC on your sleeve and an RPI of 26, general estimation as to where we would land on selection Sunday in this hypothetical scenario.

Correct. Heavy correlation between host and RPI. Since the field was expanded to 64 you can probably count on one hand the number of teams who hosted with an RPI outside the top 20.

[zephyr]

I get it. But if you start 9-8 then go 37-2, the committee takes that into account.

Do they?

[cajundiehard]

One game at a time. Win the Sun Belt regular season and we will get an at large bid. That's all that matters at this point. End of story.

SBC conference rank essentially now tied for 4th through 7th with Big 10 and Big East as well as Pac 12...

Not sure how this finishing over the next few weeks will impact things as far as number of bids the SBC gets...

Brian - when was the last time a SBC regular season champ was left out of the Tournament?

[Jacob81]

Houston Christian and rice are basically the same opponent this year.
Rice 15-25 rpi 213
HCU 15-25 rpi 214

[fpc4life99]

What concerns me is our pitching staff being god awful for back to back games

Two weeks ago, I shared my observation that I didn't perceive the latter part of our pitching staff to be as formidable as others had portrayed. I was insulted by those whom rave to know so much about baseball than I.