Softball Polls are Out

[HoustonCajun]

_ Actually, this is the first time I think LSU should be ahead of UL. Of course, LSU still has Tennessee and Auburn, but the rest of their schedule is "kinda" weak. _

Didn't LSU just sweep Alabama while UL lost to FIU? Our weak conference and OOC outside of the major tournaments earlier this year certainly hurts us, plus losses to UNT and FIU.

[RaginDave]

_ Didn't LSU just sweep Alabama while UL lost to FIU? Our weak conference and OOC outside of the major tournaments earlier this year certainly hurts us, plus losses to UNT and FIU. _

I realize that UNT has struggled this year but they have wins over

UL, Ole Miss, Baylor and Mizzou....All very good teams

FIU has wins vs:

UL, Memphis and Ga Tech (twice)

The SBC is not weak by any standards, it is not the SEC or PAC 10, but this is not a weak conference. We currently have 7 of the 9 teams with winning records. I don't know where our conference RPI is, but I would venture to say it is pretty high.

[CajunsHat]

How many years do we have to go to BR for a regional and win it before NCAA realizes they shouldn't host with us in the regional too? Lol

igeaux.mobi

[RaginFan2]

_ Didn't LSU just sweep Alabama while UL lost to FIU? Our weak conference and OOC outside of the major tournaments earlier this year certainly hurts us, plus losses to UNT and FIU. _

Not to mention the first loss to Southern... Southern???

[ImperialCajun]

How do you play .500 ball and stay ranked? By having 8 teams in your conference ranked at the beginning of the year. And then constantly re-applying value to that. They swept a series from the #1 team. WooHoo! When Alabama goes to California and sweeps UCLA, Arizona, & Arizona State, then they would deserve to be # 1. SEC power from football is reflected on to everything else by the assumption of everybody else that votes for this ____. They have a very good conference, but what would the RPI of the other members of our conference be if we started out the season as # 1?? You can't tell me that Alabama can't afford to go play the PAC 10 before conference starts. We also beat Alabama!! RPI based on rankings at the beginning of the year for schools that play as weak a schedule as possible before conference is a self perpetuating mistake. The SEC may have the overall #2 conference, but if you put 6 of our conference teams in regionals, the odds are better that someone will get hot and break through. You saw march madness!! The more chances the better your odds and the power conferences and the powers that be know that.

[Rebel02]

_ I'm ok with all three of them. The only one I'm concerned with, the fourth one, is the NCAA rpi rankings which normally come out Wednesday afternoons. That's the one that will factor into where we go for regionals. _

Someone gets it!

[HoustonCajun]

_ How many years do we have to go to BR for a regional and win it before NCAA realizes they shouldn't host with us in the regional too? Lol

igeaux.mobi _

We should have a stadium in place to host a regional, assuming we are a higher ranked team. But, at this stage, doesn't look like we will be able to host anything, regardless of our ranking. How sad that the stadium was supposed to be finished at the start of the year, then by the 3rd week of the year, then by the conference tournament, now who knows when. So, we'll get stuck in BR or College Station or Waco or Tuscaloosa. Pretty sad, actually. What could have/should have been.

[lcitsh]

_ Why wouldn't they send LSU and UL to the same regional ? Two Louisiana schools, winner of Southland Conference, and Texas A@M. _

You have to have a #1 seed in a regional. None of those teams are close to being a #1.

[LSUalum1]

I would bet that LSU's RPI is in the top 16 when the rankings come out tomorrow, so LSU could be a number 1 seed.

[LSUalum1]

_ How do you play .500 ball and stay ranked?

Who's .500? LSU is 24 - 12 and 9 of those losses were to top 20 teams. The other 3 losses were to Houston and Southern Miss.

[gatadotcom]

LSU won't host unless they are one of the Top 16 teams as determined by the NCAA Softball Committee, and right now, there are MANY other schools ahead of them in the south. My guess is that both UL and the Tiggers will be on the road for Regionals.

The SEC could host 4 or 5 Regionals, but I don't see one of them being in Red Stick.

igeaux.mobi

[LSUalum1]

_ LSU won't host unless they are one of the Top 16 teams as determined by the NCAA Softball Committee, and right now, there are MANY other schools ahead of them in the south. My guess is that both UL and the Tiggers will be on the road for Regionals.

The SEC could host 4 or 5 Regionals, but I don't see one of them being in Red Stick.

igeaux.mobi _

Well, LSU did host last year and in terms of RPI, I doubt that there will be "many" schools ahead of them this year. Florida has lost their Pitcher and has played poorly lately, so they will continue to sink. Georgia and Alabama are certain locks, but if LSU beats Tennessee two out of three this weekend, I believe they will host.

Anything can happen. There's still a lot of games to be played. Two weeks ago I I didn't even think LSU would make a regional.