Last day of regionals thread. Yes I know we're not in it, but you might want to see anyway.

[TilloDwg]

UConn playing lights out.....up 6-0

 

[Mr. Cook]

Something tells me that you’ll be able to keep this up through the entirety of the ‘25 season too

And In all sports*******

 

[MSUDC11-2.0]

Jim Penders is a very good coach. He’s one of those that you kinda feel like deserves an Omaha team eventually. Been at the same school since he played there in the early 90’s and is consistently competitive in a part of the country where college baseball might as well not exist to most.

 

[Dawgg]

It’s kind of weird that most of the northeast colleges and their fanbases don’t care anything about baseball, but the most prominent summer college league is located in Massachusetts.

 

[skydawg1]

It’s kind of weird that most of the northeast colleges and their fanbases don’t care anything about baseball, but the most prominent summer college league is located in Massachusetts.

Because of the mild summers.

 

[Dawgg]

Because of the mild summers.

That’s true and I guess a lot of folks from the northeast play college ball for southern teams, so it’s not just cultural disinterest.

 

[Dawgg]

Down goes another national seed, 11 OK State.

I don't keep track of yearly averages or anything, but some interesting tidbits I noticed so far:

1. As of right now, not a single 2 seed has advanced to the Supers. Every advancing team has been a 1, 3, or 4 (yay, Evansville). LSU could change that with a win against North Carolina right now.

2. 9 National Seeds have advanced, 5 have been eliminated, and 2 are TBD. If both national seeds lose tonight, then we'd have 7 national seeds eliminated in the Regionals. That seems high, but, again, I don't know. If I had to bet, I would think LSU beats North Carolina and OU beats UConn and we end up with 10 out of 16 national seeds advancing.

3. So far, the ACC has advanced all of their National seeds (this could change if LSU beats UNC tonight), but no non-national seeds from the ACC advanced.

4. Evansville is the only team from a current non-Power 5 conference to advance, though UConn could change that with a win over OU tonight.

5. The Big Ten advanced NOBODY.

6. Current breakdown of conferences in the Supers vs Regionals:
SEC - 5 (with a possible 6) out of 11
ACC - 4 (with a possible 5) out of 8
Big 12 - 2 (with a possible 3) out of 6
Pac-12 - 2 out of 3
Missouri Valley - 1 out of 2
All other conferences - 0 (with a possible 1) out of 34

Advanced	Eliminated	TBD
1 Tennessee	5 Arkansas (Kansas State - 3 seed)	4 North Carolina (LSU - 2 seed)
2 Kentucky	11 Oklahoma State (Florida - 3 seed)	9 Oklahoma (UConn - 3 seed)
3 Texas A&M	13 Arizona (West Virginia - 3 seed)
6 Clemson	14 UC Santa Barbara (Oregon - 3 seed)
7 Georgia	16 East Carolina (Evansville - 4 seed)
8 Florida State
10 NC State
12 Virginia
15 Oregon State

Welp, I was wrong about both of last night's games, but I got the number of national seeds advancing right.

Advanced	Eliminated
1 Tennessee	5 Arkansas (Kansas State - 3 seed)
2 Kentucky	9 Oklahoma (UConn - 3 seed)
3 Texas A&M	11 Oklahoma State (Florida - 3 seed)
4 North Carolina	13 Arizona (West Virginia - 3 seed)
6 Clemson	14 UC Santa Barbara (Oregon - 3 seed)
7 Georgia	16 East Carolina (Evansville - 4 seed)
8 Florida State
10 NC State
12 Virginia
15 Oregon State

So, not a single 2 seed made it through and Arkansas was the only Top 8 seed to get eliminated, not even making their own regional final. With UNC winning, the ACC got all of their national seeds through (and none of their non-national seeds). The Pac-12 got the highest percentage of teams through and the Big 12 got the lowest (of conferences with advancing teams).

Conference breakdown:
SEC - 5 out of 11 - 45.5%
ACC - 5 out of 8 - 62.5%
Big 12 - 2 out of 6 - 33.3%
Pac-12 - 2 out of 3 - 66.7%
Missouri Valley - 1 out of 2 - 50%
Big East - 1 out of 2 - 50%
All other conferences - 0 out of 32

I'm pulling for Oregon State at this point. Sorry, Beavs, you got the curse of Dawgg pulling for you.

ETA: I just noticed that of the 8 Supers, there are only two that are National seed vs National seed:
Kentucky vs Oregon State
Georgia vs NC State

The rest are national seeds vs 3 or 4 seeds:
Tennessee vs 4 seed Evansville
Florida State vs 3 seed UConn
Virginia vs 3 seed Kansas State
Clemson vs 3 seed Florida
UNC vs 3 seed West Virginia
Texas A&M vs 3 seed Oregon

There are no Supers without at least 1 national seed. Also, there are no intra-conference Supers, which I feel like happens at least once every year.

 

[thekimmer]

Oh, my gosh, Lane Forsythe sighting. Playing SS for OK State, he worked the pitcher for a walk in the fifth. The Cowboys have the bases loaded in the inning, down 3-1.

Hmmm....more data on Geautreau? Forsythe 2023 -.248 2024-.287 Alford 2023-.248 2024-.302 Hatcher 2021-.189 2022 -.391

 

[MSUDOG24]

If you like college baseball, there should be some good games today.
Right now, Evansville is giving East Carolina all they want. They just took a 6-5 lead with a homer.

We also have games coming up between Oklahoma State and Florida, North Carolina and LSU, and Oregon State and UC Irvine.

Oklahoma who's playing UConn.

This Evansville ECU game has been great. Dozens of ECU fans are screaming their head off.

Are you and/or Dawgg going to moderate our Supers thread?

Not to beat a dead horse or rub salt in the wound but it is a stunning day in Starkville for a BB game and oh so close to doing so. : > (