Interesting Tidbits from SouthernCollegeSports.com

[El Sidonio]

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Best nicknames in the field:

Category one: "What is it?" The Furman Paladins? The Stetson Hatters? The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers?

Category two: "Sounds tough!" The Northwestern State Demons. The Illinois-Chicago Flames. The Wichita State Shockers.

Category three: "Just plain cool!" The Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns. The Pepperdine Waves. The Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners. The Austin Peay Governors.

The two seeds:

Best: Arizona, Rice, College of Charleston
Worst: Auburn, Virginia, Arizona State

The three seeds:

Best: Louisiana-Lafayette, Miami (Ohio), Creighton
Worst: Stanford, South Alabama, Oklahoma

The four seeds:

Best: Army, Ohio State, UNLV
Worst: Texas-San Antonio, Furman, North Carolina A&T

Regional ratings:

Strongest: Fullerton, Atlanta, Baton Rouge
Weakest: Tallahassee, Long Beach, Tempe

Top potential Super Regional showdowns:

If the seeds hold: LSU at Tulane, Florida State at Florida, Texas at Mississippi

With an upset or two: North Carolina vs Florida State, Arizona State vs Arizona, South Carolina vs Winthrop

"I find the BR regional being rated as one of the strongest as hard to believe. Not so much because NSU or Rice aren't good, but because I don't believe LSU is that good. just my .02"

[El Sidonio]

What the three seeds category tells me is that although MTSU and USA are decent SBC ballclubs, we basically let the tourney championship slip away. Also, it says that when we came from behind to beat Miami earlier this season, that we did somethin good.

God Bless.

[El Sidonio]

FYI, we're ranked as high as #13, as low as #23, and in one poll, unranked.

God Bless.

[lxa656]

Yeah, I cant see how the LSU A&M is one of the toughest. It is by all means, no cake walk but top 3 toughest??? Dats ok deaux, they will remember they Cajuns when they do the dogpile in Omaha!

[Turbine]

Category three: "Just plain cool!" The Louisiana-La. Ragin' Cajuns.

All I know is we cool, they drool, lets take them to school!