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re: Coastal Carolina has to be the biggest Cinderella of the modern era.
Posted on 6/14/17 at 1:24 pm to chew4219
Posted on 6/14/17 at 1:24 pm to chew4219
Coastal also moved from the Big South conference to the Sun Belt and this was their first year competing in the Sun Belt. They also lost their first game of the sun belt conference double elimination tournament and then it starts raining and the conference just decides to change the tournament to single elimination which shut the door for the conference's regular season champs, Coastal. As LSU fans you also know that every team Coastal played would lose a finger just to say they beat the reigning National Champion. Coastal was also on an 11 game win streak heading into the tournament. It didn't help that 4 conference tournaments we're won by teams not expected to. Coastal just missed out. As far as biggest Cinderella Coastal has to be at least 2nd. The Citadel didn't win anything and just bc Davidson makes the CWS doesn't mean much. Coastal winning it in their first appearance makes them at least 2nd. Someone said Fresno St had been to the CWS 3 times. If that's true then I'd put Coastal over them. I'm sure you can't be from a much smaller town than Conway, SC with a population around 15,000 ppl.. Houston has more ppl than the entire state of SC plus you have SCar and Clemson cleaning up most recruits. Cali only has what 40 million ppl to SC's 4. Also last year's Coastal team was probably not as good as their 2010 team that lost in the supers to future NC SCar basically bc Coastal was without their 3 best pitchers for entire series against SCar due to the flu and SCar running over their 3rd best pitchers in the first inning of game one. The other 2 were All Americans. That made it that much sweeter to see Coastal win it all. Coastal should get better now that they are a D1 school instead of a D2 school except in baseball like last year
This post was edited on 6/14/17 at 1:54 pm
Posted on 6/14/17 at 2:14 pm to conwayallday
Coastal Carolina was favored by many analysts in the Super Regional at the Box. Though it was improbable that they would win the whole thing (just look at the Vegas odds) its difficult to label them as a "Cinderella" team. They certainly weren't a fringe tourney team at the end of the season.
The Fresno St. natty is much more convincing as a "Cinderella" run. They barely made the tourney and then lost at every level of it before clawing back and winning the whole thing. I understand the program had some pedigree and they were ranked preseason, but its only fair to judge them based on the season that they had in my book. Still, the school had never won a men's championship in ANY sport other than tennis in 1968.
Coastal Carolina was pretty statistically dominant last year throughout, in spite of their relative unknown status in CBB among casual fans. Fresno struggled that season and has only made 3 tourneys since. CC lost 18 games; Fresno lost over 30. It's really not close.
The Fresno St. natty is much more convincing as a "Cinderella" run. They barely made the tourney and then lost at every level of it before clawing back and winning the whole thing. I understand the program had some pedigree and they were ranked preseason, but its only fair to judge them based on the season that they had in my book. Still, the school had never won a men's championship in ANY sport other than tennis in 1968.
Coastal Carolina was pretty statistically dominant last year throughout, in spite of their relative unknown status in CBB among casual fans. Fresno struggled that season and has only made 3 tourneys since. CC lost 18 games; Fresno lost over 30. It's really not close.
This post was edited on 6/14/17 at 2:17 pm
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