Sun Belt Conference softball tournament

[CajunSID]

Gonna be a lot of seed movement today. If UL can win, will move way up. Looks like if lose, would be helpful for App St to beat Coastal.

I’m sure there would be other scenarios to pull for, but would rather focus on Cajuns getting the sweep!

[VObserver]

A Cajuns win today guarantees at worst a tie for the 4 seed.

[lcitsh]

If we win today and either ULM or Texas State sweeps, would we be the #3 seed since we have the tiebreaker over either one of them?

Yes. Appalachian State's record against ULM is 0-3 and Texas State 1-2, so Cajuns win the tiebreak with any 14-10 team.

[lcitsh]

Texas State 7 at ULM 4
Texas State 6 at ULM 2
Coastal Carolina 9 at Appalachian State 6
Georgia Southern 3 at James Madison 1
Southern Mississippi 2 at Louisiana 4

Texas State completes the sweep of ULM and takes the conference regular season championship and the #1 seed in the conference tournament.
Tough weekend for ULM. One game lead going into the weekend to losing the tiebreak for third and being the #4 seed.
Georgia Southern wins the tiebreak for the 13-11 teams and is the #5 seed, Appalachian State is #6, Coastal Carolina #7.

Standings
Texas State 16-8
Marshall 15-9
Louisiana 14-10
ULM 14-10
Georgia Southern 13-11
Appalachian State 13-11
Coastal Carolina 13-11
Troy 12-12
James Madison 11-13
Southern Mississippi 10-13
South Alabama 9-14
Georgia State 3-21

Conference tournament matchups:
Wednesday
#7 Coastal Carolina vs. #10 Southern Mississippi
#8 Troy vs. #9 James Madison

Thursday
#1 Texas State vs. Troy/James Madison
#2 Marshall vs. Coastal Carolina/Southern Mississippi
#3 Louisiana vs. #6 Appalachian State
#4 ULM vs. #5 Georgia Southern

This is the most wide open the tournament has ever been. Southern Mississippi is the least likely to win, but every team has a legitimate chance of winning this. Do not be surprised if it's a James Madison vs. Marshall championship game.
The Cajuns have an absolutely terrible draw. Every team on their side of the bracket has an offense. If they win this, or even make the finals, they will have earned it.

[SlickRick]

Texas State 7 at ULM 4
Texas State 6 at ULM 2
Coastal Carolina 9 at Appalachian State 6
Georgia Southern 3 at James Madison 1
Southern Mississippi 2 at Louisiana 4

Texas State completes the sweep of ULM and takes the conference regular season championship and the #1 seed in the conference tournament.
Tough weekend for ULM. One game lead going into the weekend to losing the tiebreak for third and being the #4 seed.
Georgia Southern wins the tiebreak for the 13-11 teams and is the #5 seed, Appalachian State is #6, Coastal Carolina #7.

Standings
Texas State 16-8
Marshall 15-9
Louisiana 14-10
ULM 14-10
Georgia Southern 13-11
Appalachian State 13-11
Coastal Carolina 13-11
Troy 12-12
James Madison 11-13
Southern Mississippi 10-13
South Alabama 9-14
Georgia State 3-21

Conference tournament matchups:
Wednesday
#7 Coastal Carolina vs. #10 Southern Mississippi
#8 Troy vs. #9 James Madison

Thursday
#1 Texas State vs. Troy/James Madison
#2 Marshall vs. Coastal Carolina/Southern Mississippi
#3 Louisiana vs. #6 Appalachian State
#4 ULM vs. #5 Georgia Southern

This is the most wide open the tournament has ever been. Southern Mississippi is the least likely to win, but every team has a legitimate chance of winning this. Do not be surprised if it's a James Madison vs. Marshall championship game.
The Cajuns have an absolutely terrible draw. Every team on their side of the bracket has an offense. If they win this, or even make the finals, they will have earned it.

Well, they certainly changed things going from 11 seed to 3.

However, we won't win any tournament games scoring 2 or 3 runs against those offensive teams.

Of our 3 power bats, Rowe and Credeur need to get hot. Smith must stay hot. White has potential but average is at .200. Stutes and Norwood swing like they have some pop, but seldom barrel up the ball. Our slappers are very good, but manufacturing runs takes a lot of good things to happen to get them home.

[RaginScotsman]

We can win that thing. The only scary team is the Cajuns. Just from an unpredictably standpoint. They’ve been consistent as of late, so that’s a plus.