Oh boy: Fayetteville's got a regional.

Traffic's gonna be a ####### nightmare.

Oh well; Arkansas's a good team and they deserve it; I agree they got screwed in rankings. IMO, only Vandy is better

Apparently the actual reason my alma mater was left out was the committee's decision to ignore their own criteria because they didn't want to many ACC teams in the tournament. Not that I'm biased, but I swear the NCAA basketball tournament committee screws us every chance they get so this seems to fit right in.

From ajc.com:

Georgia Tech got left out of the NCAA baseball tournament on Monday when the selection committee apparently violated its own criteria for choosing at-large teams.

The committee's guidelines tell it to select the best teams, regardless of conference affiliation, but NCAA baseball committee chairman Larry Templeton suggested the decision to omit Tech had something to do with limiting the ACC to seven teams in the 64-team field.

"The committee struggled a long time with the ACC," Templeton said. "At the end of the day, we were looking at whether there was another ACC team we wanted to take off the board [in favor of Tech]."

Templeton said the number of teams from a conference is not supposed to be a criterion but that "subconsciously" it played a role. The ACC's seven berths this year tied the most in ACC history and were the most for any conference this year, but they were also below the eight or nine berths the SEC got each of the last four seasons.

Aaron Fitt has a good analysis:

Meanwhile, teams like Georgia Tech (29th in the RPI), College of Charleston (41st) and Gonzaga (75th) were left out. Georgia Tech’s poor finish (losing eight of its last 10) hurt, but that finish came in the ACC, which is a much tougher conference than the Sun Belt or CUSA. The Yellow Jackets have won series against North Carolina State and Rutgers, which should have trumped anything on Memphis’ resume. CofC has a stronger RPI and performed better in its conference than the Trojans or Tigers. And Gonzaga’s RPI is considerably lower, but its series wins against San Diego and Pepperdine are far more impressive than anything Memphis has done. Troy, at least, won a series from Coastal Carolina.

I was pleased to see Northern conferences like the Big East and Big Ten rewarded with three bids each. I didn’t think Minnesota would get in, but I thought it was deserving of a spot. And I applaud the committee for having the fortitude to flout history and award just five bids to the SEC. But if Tennessee and Alabama were going to be omitted, Troy and Memphis were the wrong teams to reward.

-- MWE

And Florida misses a second straight tourney. They were 29-30 this year, and thus ineligible for inclusion.

I think Pat McMahon's job is in serious jeopardy.

Arkansas's a good team and they deserve it; I agree they got screwed in rankings.

Arkansas probably has the deepest pitching staff of any of the top eight seeds. Nick Schmidt and Jesse Todd will likely go in the supplemental first or early second rounds, and Duke Welker will probably go in the second or third round. Travis Hill will probably go in the 11th-15th rounds. Had Shaun Seibert not gone down with elbow problems earlier this year, the Razorbacks could very well have made it into the top 3 nationally.

-- MWE

And Florida misses a second straight tourney

As an Ohio State fan and alum, I can say that I am quite happy with this development.

Meanwhile, Louisville (my employer) plays Miami (the team I grew up rooting for). Totally unfair.

"As an Ohio State fan and alum, I can say that I am quite happy with this development."

Yes, this certainly makes up for the last six months.

I still can't believe that my older brother's friend runs the best program in the country. Go Vandy (then succomb to my alma mater)!

Yes, this certainly makes up for the last six months.

No, but even though shooting the redneck didn't make up for the squeal-like-a-pig incident, Ned Beatty sure felt better when the abuse abated.

Long Beach State gets to host a regional. My impression of this year's team is that the pitching is so-so but they've really been hitting. Perhaps Blair Field for some reason wasn't playing quite as much as an extreme pitchers park as it usually does, but it's still something to score 6 runs a game there. The Dirtbags ripped off a huge winning streak in the second half of the season, but that ended when they got swept by UC Riverside.

I probably won't be able to get to any of the games of the regional - I hope that Long Beach makes it to a superregional and gets to host that.

Looks like FSU might do ok in that regional.

Would anyone be willing to share their thoughts on the Missouri team? I'm very surprised the program has progressed to the point where they could lose a top pick like Scherzer and be better in the year following.

Vanderbilt's growth into a bigtime player in SEC sports is amazing. People where pretty much calling the athletic program there dead a couple of years ago when it...well got rid of the athletic department. Now it has most of it programs competing for national championships and Vanderbilt might actually go to a bowl game in college football.

Cal Poly went 13-8 in the Big West.
Cal State Fullerton went 10-11 in the Big West.
Cal Poly beat Cal State Fullerton 2 of 3 times head to head.
Cal Poly went 32-24 overall, Fullerton went 33-22, I think.
Cal Poly had the fifth toughest strength of schedual nation wide. I'm not sure about Fullerton but they were in the top 12 (all eight Big West teams were in the top 12).

(Expletive) it! Fullerton got in on reputation. Cal Poly deserved a spot.

Now it has most of it programs competing for national championships.

Really? The men's b-ball and baseball teams are obviously good (and I think one of women's teams is good) but that about it. In any case, go Commodores (and not the Lionel Richie variety).

Long Beach State gets to host a regional.

Travesty. Absolute crap. If they had won the conference outright, I could see it. But they had a chance to take care of business, and they got b!tchsl@pped three straight games on their own field against UCR. That regional should be at the Riverside Sports Complex.

I would love to see Long Beach go out in two straight.

YAY!
I was hoping we'd have a thread like this.

Watch out for UVA...they are loaded. UNC is too, but theyre also the #3 national seed, so you'd expect that, but I think UVA is easily as good or better than any team in the country.

By the way, if you want to see a spectacle, come to Chapel Hill and watch ECU and UNC fans go at it. Talk about your culture clashes...

Really? The men's b-ball and baseball teams are obviously good (and I think one of women's teams is good) but that about it. In any case, go Commodores (and not the Lionel Richie variety).

well some of its fluffy things like Women's bowling. But they have sent 10 teams to National Championship games

eh-well not National Championship games-but tournaments-which is still quite a feat.

And a pleasant evening to you, Shredder. And Brad ... Penny, too. Who knew that the Big West would excite such passions?

The only thing I can say about the motives of the selection committee is that Long Beach has shown that it can host a regional and draw good crowds doing so. Yeah, I know about that last conference series - what can I say?

Riverside is only about 50 or so miles from Long Beach (might take a while to drive it, especially if you don't have one of those toll road transponders to get through Santa Ana Canyon) but there's 800 or 1000 feet of elevation difference and 20 degrees of temperature difference that make for some very different playing conditions.

FWIW, the Phoenix media is calling these Sun Devils the best team Murphy's had since he took over in 1995.

Mark it down, the University of New Orleans Privateers are making it to the Super Regionals!

Is there any sort of Gamecast or streamed radio available online to follow the games?

Holy cow, Wake Forest got a bid. I thought when they lost to UNC in the finals that was it and didn't even check. I'm happy for the kids, but I'm pretty surprised.

Is there any sort of Gamecast or streamed radio available online to follow the games?

ESPNU will be carrying games this weekend.

The NCAA could have links to audio feeds of the various schools through its Web site. I don't know how often this is updated; I've never used it.

-- MWE

The only thing I can say about the motives of the selection committee is that Long Beach has shown that it can host a regional and draw good crowds doing so. Yeah, I know about that last conference series - what can I say?

No offense to you personally, but this is really a stupid criteria. I can understand not giving it to a school who has proven they *CAN'T* host a regional, but if you're new to division 1, how do you prove you can host a regional until they, ya know, let you host a regional?

I don't think UCR put in a bid for a regional - and you have to put in a bid to get one. I know UCI did bid, but I don't think they deserved it. If you go by RPI, Long Beach ranks #8, UCI #30, UCR #48. Long Beach played at USC, at UCLA, at Rice, and at Arizona State - and they went 4-4 in those games. Seems to me they deserve some credit for playing those tough out-of-conference games on the road, and holding their own in them. UCR didn't play nearly as tough an out-of-conference schedule, nor did UCI.

-- MWE

I don't think UCR put in a bid for a regional

They did.

Seems to me they deserve some credit for playing those tough out-of-conference games on the road, and holding their own in them. UCR didn't play nearly as tough an out-of-conference schedule, nor did UCI.

Which would mean something if UCR hadn't taken three straight at Blair Field. They didn't take two of three. They didn't sweep them at home. They went into their park and beat them three straight times.

UCR did submit a bid, according to Baseball America. How good is UCR's overall stadium setup (in terms of being able to host a regional)?

Shredder beat me to it with the bid info...

The Highlanders averaged 329 per home game.

Oof. That, and the not-so-impressive RPI, probably did in UCR's chances to host.

[21] Hey, the Big West might be overall pretty weak for Division I athletics, but when it comes to baseball, it is very solid. And it is easy to get upset when the school you attend finishes fourth while the fifth place team makes the tournament. And now triple crown winner Grant Desme is going to get drafted along with ace picher Thomas Eager.

Which would mean something if UCR hadn't taken three straight at Blair Field. They didn't take two of three. They didn't sweep them at home. They went into their park and beat them three straight times.

Yes, UCR did that. They also have quality road wins at UCLA and San Diego. They won the Big West title, by one game over UCI and LBSU. But...they also got beat two of three by UCI at home. They lost two of three at home to Portland, which finished under .500. They got bombed in two of three games at Oklahoma, losing the other 2-1. They also lost three games at Washington.

Long Beach won a game at Rice. They won a game at Wichita State. They won twice at Arizona State. They won at UCLA. They came back from a 7-0 deficit at Pepperdine to tie the game at 7 (the game was later completed at Long Beach, with LBSU winning in 10), and also beat Pepperdine at home. They won two of three at CS Fullerton (after losing two of three at home to them earlier). They won two of three from Texas at home. That's far more impressive than anything UCR did, other than beating LBSU three straight at LBSU.

UCI has something of a case too, beating both UCR (there) and LBSU (at home) 2 of 3. They also have a road win at UCLA and at Pepperdine and swept Washington at Washington. But they, too, have no other real marquee results.

To give the nod to UCR or UCI over LBSU, you have to put a great deal of stock into a single weekend's results and ignore the quality displayed over the entire schedule. That's not to say either, or both, of those teams didn't deserve to host a regional - just that LBSU is the wrong team to pick on as being less deserving (although, oddly enough, Aaron Fitt's pre-tournament projection had UCI hosting, UCR still projected to go to Tempe, and LBSU second to San Diego).

-- MWE

To give the nod to UCR or UCI over LBSU, you have to put a great deal of stock into a single weekend's results and ignore the quality displayed over the entire schedule.

To give the nod to UCR, you don't have to put a great deal of stock into a single weekend's results. You have to simply look at the conference standings. They swept two of the teams from the conference that made the tournament, and they lost what was essentially a meaningless game to UCI after they had clinched the conference championship.

How good is UCR's overall stadium setup (in terms of being able to host a regional)?

The field itself should be fine. The stadium probably seats somewhere between 1,500 and 2,500 or so. It's got hotels within a few blocks. I'm not sure what the visitor clubhouse facilities are like (but the home clubhouse is first rate).

The NCAA tournament is about rewarding full-season excellence, not just in-conference excellence. In-conference results are often used as tiebreakers when the teams are close otherwise (see: Wake Forest vs Georgia Tech) but not when a team has established itself over the course of the full season as clearly deserving, as LBSU did.

-- MWE

In-conference results are often used as tiebreakers when the teams are close otherwise

I think that's stupid. The NCAA's position, I mean, not your discussion of it. Why have conferences?

I think it should be the exact opposite. Use the full season to differentiate between two teams who maybe only met once, or split a series, or otherwise didn't distinguish themselves against similar opponents. But in this case, we have one team that went into a hostile environment trailing in the standings, and left with a two game lead, which they didn't relinquish. If the team that finished second is clearly superior, they'll prove it in the tournament.

I can't imagine, for example, Washington State getting a lower seed in last year's NCAA tournament than UCLA if they had a) swept the season series against UCLA, and b) won the Pac 10 conference, despite the fact that they still would have had a clearly inferior RPI and strength of schedule.

Why on earth would UCR host? Blah (for a host) RPI, small stadium, bad attendance. There's zero reason to discuss this.

bad attendance

They had over 1,000 people per game for the UCI series. They've only been in D1 for about five years. Everyone has to start somewhere.

Oh, and they totally b!tchsl@pped LBSU at Blair field in a pivotal series, in case I haven't mentioned that already.

"They had over 1,000 people per game for the UCI series."

For A SERIES, yes. And over 1,000 isn't really that much at all. I can't find this years numbers but Minnesota averaged 1,200 people a game in 06, which was only good enough for 50th in the country. And thats 1,200 people a game for the whole year, not just for a marquee series.

And just to throw it out there, an average SEC game draws over 4,000 fans.

This is my favorite thread ever to be put onto this website. That is all.

"This is my favorite thread ever to be put onto this website. That is all."

Agreed, except for maybe last years version of this.

A couple questions/comments:

* For those of you who follow college baseball, how do you do it? Do you just read about it? Do you go to games a lot?

* The main problem with having UCR host anything is that people would have to go to Riverside. Why would the NCAA impose such punishment on its participants and fans?

The NCAA rewarded teams that played tough schedules this year,

Then wouldn't Oklahoma have deserved a bid if that were true?

"* For those of you who follow college baseball, how do you do it? Do you just read about it? Do you go to games a lot?"

Both, I'm fortunate to be around tons of it. Plus you can catch the occasional game on TV and i see Team USA in the summer which features most of the best underclassman from across the country.

"* The main problem with having UCR host anything is that people would have to go to Riverside. Why would the NCAA impose such punishment on its participants and fans?"

Thats not necessarily the main reason. Their resume is good, but has its flaws. Losing a series to Portland and getting swept by both of the "major conference" teams you play doesn't look good. Winning their year end series vs. UC-I would have helped. But on the other hand sweeping Fullerton and LBSU are nice. They aren't a lock #1 seed from a performance alone standpoint. Furthermore the NCAA has shown that if a team is worthy of a #1 seed but they dont have the facilities to host the NCAA will seed a team #1 and then have the #2 host, so its not all about that. Maybe they just werent good enough.

Also, I dont see how not letting bad hosts host is bad for college baseball fans.

wouldn't Oklahoma have deserved a bid if that were true?

Oklahoma's non-conference schedule wasn't all that tough, and they played a lot of those games in Norman. They got bombed by South Carolina (neutral site, Wilmington NC) and TCU away from home, and their only quality non-conference road win was at San Diego. They also got swept at Oklahoma State and dropped two of three at Missouri. I can see why they were left out.

-- MWE

This is who I think will be coming out of the regionals:

Vanderbilt
Virginia
San Diego
Pepperdine (from probably the strongest regional in the tournament)
TCU (upset special)
Texas A&M;Arkansas
Miami
North Carolina
South Carolina
Florida State
Clemson
Texas
Wichita State
Arizona State
Mississippi

-- MWE

My picks (hint-go to Vegas and bet on the opposite of all these):

Vandy
UVA
UNC
AZ State
FSU
Lafayette
Wichita State (I really want to pick ORU)
Texas
Ole Miss
UCLA
NC State (great pitching depth, but then again South Carolina can mash like few others..tied for tops in the nation in HRs. Fun game is when they play Wofford to open, which is who theyre tied with.)
Baylor (Rice has some great arms, afraid of picking against 'em but im counting on Baylors young talent to keep improving)
Arkansas
Coastal
San Deigo
Miami(finally found some pitching...I really thought about going with Lousiville cos they have a lot going for em but I've gone too heavy on upsets as is)

Can't pick both UVA and Lafayette, my friend...they're both in Charlottesville. I assume you mean LA-Lafayette, from A&M;'s regional.

-- MWE

- The main problem with having UCR host anything is that people would have to go to Riverside. Why would the NCAA impose such punishment on its participants and fans?"

Thats not necessarily the main reason.

I know, but I didn't want to pass up an opportunity to diss Riverside.

St. John's is shutting out Clemson 1-0 in the 7th...

So, where can I find a database of this year's individual stats? Boydsworld .csv don't include '07 data yet (in previous years they did - weird) and it looks like Sackmann's site is a no-go.

I haven't gotten to pay much attention to things this year, but I kind of like the Louisville club as well (though I'm not picking them either). It'll be interesting to see if they continue to try to run willy-nilly in the tourney.

Clemson just tied the game in the 8th.

Charlotte jumped on NC State for three in the first.

-- MWE

So, where can I find a database of this year's individual stats?

Not easy to find; I've had to go to the individual school Web sites.

-- MWE

And Western Carolina put up a 3-spot on East Carolina in the 1st.

-- MWE

ECU comes back with 2 in the bottom half.

UL-Lafayette scores in the bottom of the 1st to take a 1-0 lead on Ohio State.
Miami jumps out to a 1-0 lead over Louisville.

-- MWE

St. John's gets a run off Clemson closer Alan Farina in the 9th on an infield single by Brian Kemp to take a 2-1 lead.

-- MWE

Three unearned runs off Scott Maine puts Louisville on top of the Hurricanes.
ECU now trails WCU 4-2.
Ohio State ties UL-Lafayette at 1 in the 3rd.
This is almost as good as the NCAA Basketball Tournament!

-- MWE

And the Buckeyes get a 2-run double by Matt Angle to lead 3-1.
Richard O'Brien goes deep for Miami: 3-2 Cardinals.

-- MWE

Clemson ties the score at 2-2 on a wild pitch.

-- MWE

The Yahoo site has some free audio broadcasts of the regional games:

Link

Clemson pulls it out in the bottom of the ninth, 3-2.
Memphis, trying to prove they belong in the tournament, takes a 2-0 lead on Michigan.
UCI pounding Wake Forest 6-0.
ORU and Arizona knotted at 3.
Arrieta's not real sharp for TCU, but some bad baserunning decisions by the Bears have kept the game scoreless into the 4th.

-- MWE

According to the Louisville Courier-Journal, Miami and Louisville are tied 7-7 in the 4th (Jorge Castillo's 3-run HR in the 4th for the Cards tied it).

9-7 Louisville in the 5th. Pitchers' duel.

Louisville just took a 9-7 lead in the top of the fifth on a two-run single by Daniel Burton. Gavin Logsdon has shut the Hurricanes down since relieving Zack Pitts during a six-run second.

-- MWE

Louisville, by the way, starts six seniors and two juniors, plus redshirt freshman Chris Dominguez. That kind of mix is really unusual in this day and age.

-- MWE

Louisville has the bases loaded w/ 2 outs in the 6th; Logan Johnson up, with a chance to build a nice lead . . . .

Johnson retired on a hard shot to first, robbed of a double down the line. Damn.

Isaiah Howes solo HR (16) in the 7th. 10-7 Louisville.

Johnson is one of my two faves on your team, Sam (the other being Magnuson) - what position do you think he'll play as a pro - does he have the arm for third?

Boomer Whiting just hit a "single" off the wall, which scored only one run because the runners had to wait to see if it would be caught. 11-7, runners on first and second.

As for Logan Johnson (who's up now, by the way, and just hit a ball scored E-7 -- sounds like the left fielder should have but didn't catch it -- to make it 12-7) . . . I suspect he'll start at third but his bat will carry him as far as he'll go.

Bases now loaded (after a walk) for Howes . . . this could be about to get very ugly. Howes is hitting .391 to go with those 16 homers.

Kyle Hollander just finished four shutout innings for Louisville, retiring Miami in order in the 8th. They go to the 9th, 12-7 Cardinals. Going into today, post-season victories for these two programs (not counting conference tournaments):

Miami: 105
Louisville: 0

Derrick Alfonzo's fifth hit of the game drives in another run for Louisville. 13-7, top of the 9th.

ECU comes from behind with 3 in the sixth and 2 in the eighth to beat WCU, 9-8.
UCI bombs Wake Forest 13-0.
LA-Lafayette gets a run-scoring walkoff double from Xavier Alexander (who didn't start the game, but who was 2-2 after coming on as a pinch-hitter) to defeat Ohio State 5-4.
Charlotte knocks off NC State 6-3.
Mississippi State beats Stetson 6-3 as well.
Baylor ties the score in the top of the 7th, but TCU promptly unties it with a pair of runs on solo shots by Andrew Walker and Bryan Kervin. Arrieta gets a no-decision for his efforts after being lifted following a leadoff walk to Beamer Weems to start the 7th.
Louisville extends its lead to 13-7 over Miami, going to the bottom of the 9th. Trystan Magnuson has relieved Hollander. The pen has done its job today, for sure.
Southern Miss is blasting Troy 10-1 in the 4th. Think Tennessee and Alabama are watching that game, and the Memphis/Michigan game (8-4 Michigan in the 7th) and wondering how they were left out?

-- MWE

Louisville wins it, 13-7. Easy call to say this was the biggest win ever for the program. By far.

Congrats, Sam.

Hey - Pat Venditte is doing a heck of a job to keep Creighton in the game (down 5-4. top 7th). If you're not familiar with him, he may be the best switch pitcher of our lifetime, making some All-America lists and casting himself as a future pro.

1-1 between UCR and Nebraska in the bottom of the third. Two solo homers.

3-1 now. Three homers.

Arizona hangs on to defeat Oral Roberts 4-3.
Michigan beats Memphis 10-7.

-- MWE

And TCU gets by Baylor, 3-2. Weems led off the top of the 9th with a home run to cut it to 1, then Sam Demel loaded the bases with two outs before fanning Ben Booker to end it. Best game of the day so far, along with SJU/Clemson.

-- MWE

"Can't pick both UVA and Lafayette, my friend...they're both in Charlottesville. I assume you mean LA-Lafayette, from A&M;'s regional.

-- MWE"

Indeed i did.

WCU/ECU game was pretty damn fun by the way. The Corey Kemp homer to bring ECU within one was a damn SHOT. Umpiring issues, spotty pitching (til Shane Matthews blew away Western in the 9th), and embarrasing fundamental errors (uncovered bags, several dropped pops, bad throws) kept it close. ECU turned several close, clutch DPs.'

I still like State's pitching depth in a regional situation but I forgot that they'd probably start the regional down a game since Adam Mills was going to shut down their mediocre offense. kid is a damn good college pitcher.

And as for Lou-uh-vull I too am rooting for em. Nice to see a senior laden team for once and I'd love to see em advance farther so I can see their overachieving big bats on TV and see Boomer Whiting run.

Venditte was outstanding, allowing only Corey Brown's solo HR over 6 2/3 IP of relief, but Creighton couldn't get the bats going against Oliver Odle after the third. OSU wins 6-4.

UVa, behind Doolittle, handles Lafayette easily, 5-1.

Pepperdine/UCLA and Jacksonville/UNC under way. Davis vs Woodard in Chapel Hill, scoreless after 1. UCLA gets a 3-run HR from Cody Decker in the bottom of the first to jump ahead of the Waves. Tyson Brummett is pitching for the Bruins, Barry Enright for the Waves.

-- MWE

Johnson is probably a late-round draftee. He really doesn't have the arm for third or the range for second, and his size is going to work against him.

Tar Heels get on the board in the second (RBI doubles by Horton and Flack).

-- MWE

UCR jumps out to a 7-1 lead on a 2-run double by Uhl and a 2-run single by Pedroza. Uhl now has 3 RBI, Pedroza 4.

-- MWE

LA-Lafayette gets a run-scoring walkoff double from Xavier Alexander (who didn't start the game, but who was 2-2 after coming on as a pinch-hitter) to defeat Ohio State 5-4.

Man, Alexander is FAST. I know nothing about him as a ballplayer, but the kid can seriously motor. That was the one thing that stood out to me in the ULL-TOSU game.

Coastal Carolina defeats VCU 7-1.

UNC leads 3-0 over Jacksonville after 3. Ditto UCLA over Pepperdine, in the 4th.

-- MWE

7-5 Riverside, as their pitching staff implodes.

Cody Decker has one of the worst swings I've ever seen in my life.

Rainin' in Fayetteville.

Is Brown really beating Texas in the sixth or is that a mistake?

Brown was beating Texas, but the Longhorns scored twice in the sixth. 3-2 Texas in the 7th.

-- MWE

Rice struggled to score runs until a late flurry against Prairie View A&M;gave them some breathing room in a 5-0 win. That's not promising, although Savery should be well-rested for TCU tomorrow.

Prairie View committed six errors.

-- MWE

UCR hung on to beat Nebraska 10-5.

-- MWE

UNO is giving Wichita State a battle. 4-4 in the 7th.
Sam Houston is also playing Ole Miss tough. 5-4 Rebels in the 6th.
Texas has extended its lead over Brown to 4-2.

UCLA beat Pepperdine 7-3, with Brummett taking a shutout into the 9th.
UNC shut out Jacksonville 6-0. Woodard allowed 7 hits in eight innings.

Then there's the REAL shocker:

Austin Peay and Vanderbilt are tied at 1 in the 9th. Tyler Farrar's HR off David Price to lead off the 9th just tied the score.

-- MWE

Price had allowed 4 hits and fanned 15 going into the 9th.

-- MWE

Assuming you mean Louisville's Johnson, Mike, his age will too (23). I don't think he's a prospect, I just like his stat profile. [puts nose in book, avoids going to game]

Wasn't it PVA&M;that beat Rice in the tourney a year or three back?

I wonder what Charlotte's PF was this year (they played at minor league stadiums while an on-campus park was built)? Mills (and a lot of the staff) had smokin' numbers.

[puts nose in book, avoids going to game]

I could have gone to Chapel Hill tomorrow (one of the BIS scorers at Durham had a spare ticket), but I already had another commitment. I might try to get out there for the Super Regional, assuming UNC advances.

-- MWE

Austin Peay and Vandy are in extras. Weathers in for Price (9 IP, 5 H, 2 BB, 17 K) - which I have little doubt the Commodores were hoping to avoid - and promptly fans the first two hitters.

-- MWE

"I could have gone to Chapel Hill tomorrow (one of the BIS scorers at Durham had a spare ticket), but I already had another commitment."

Oh you'll miss seeing UNC fans and ECU fans alltogether. A riot could ensue.

Lord i wish I could find the Vandy game on the tube.
Every year it seems some small school has an overlooked legit ace that knocks down a #1 (Chris Cody last year). Shawn Kelly looks like hes getting this years honors. What an effort

Bethune Cookman took a 2-0 lead into the bottom of the seventh against Florida State, but the Seminoles ended that dream with a five-spot, and won 6-2.

Texas put four up on Brown in the 8th to take an 8-2 lead.

UIC and LBSU are scoreless in the 4th.

Oregon State beat Rutgers 5-1. Watch out for the Beavers.

-- MWE

Is gametracker stuck for you Mike or just me? It says Rafael Hill has been at bat for Peay for 5 min.

I'm somewhat surprised Vandy didn't save Price for tomorrow, like many #1 seeds do with their ace. I guess they knew how much of a threat Kelly could be.

ASU and Monmouth are tied at 2, B3.