re: Don’t forget the Missouri and USCe factor when looking at NCAA seeding

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There’s a strong argument to have us over Arkansas though… Arky lost 4 of its final 6 series, including a series loss to LSU… whereas LSU won 4 of its final 5 series, including a series win over Arky

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Very good point

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I know we are ranked #1, but I don't see us being seeded higher than Texas, Arkansas, and Vandy.

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People who’ve followed college baseball longer than Tennessee fans know polls mean absolutely nothing.

To your point, we don’t deserve to get a seed higher than Texas, Arky, or Vandy. Texas and Arky best us in all metrics. For Vandy, other than SEC record which is a tie, they best us in all other major metrics. This conversation really doesn’t concern those 3 teams. They’re absolutely locked into Top 8. We fall in the next group which is why we’re routinely slotted in the 4-8 range, which seems appropriate imo.

Do you think Oregon deserves a top 8 seed?

The consensus #1 team in the country is not getting a top 8 seed? You want to ban bet? lol. No I don’t think so.

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Do you think Oregon deserves a top 8 seed?

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Doesn't matter what I, Hunt Palmer, Division 1 Baseball, or anyone else thinks.

What does the NCAA selection committee think? They may want to give the West Coast some Super Regional action. It's happened before.

All schedules are not created equally, this will never change.. you can only judge how they played the games that they were given.

This is been my whole argument with football. Use the USC game, if we win it.. at the end of the year it would have been viewed as a garbage win. You just have to judge the results, take the human element out.

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It does matter if you say throw out the Mizzou and USCe series.

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When comparing them to other SEC teams that didn't get to play Mizzou and South Carolina... the committee just might do that.


I don't know what the committee will do. But I'm pretty sure they look at RPI and strength of schedule a lot more than they do where random people rank them in a weekly poll.

The very people (Division 1 Baseball) that have LSU ranked #1 today, also have a prediction of where they think the committee will seed teams and they have LSU at #7 in that prediction. It's not crazy to think LSU might want to go ahead and win a game this week just to be safe.

- Vandy had 6 more Q1 games and went 2-4.
- LSU still had 2 more Q1 games than Georgia and went 2-0.
- Auburn had 4 more Q1 games and went 2-2. They also have 3 Q4 losses to 1 for LSU.

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Since the tournament expanded to 64 teams, who had the highest rated RPI of a team to not receive an at large bid to the tournament? LSU 2011. RPI was like 23. They got left at home.

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Nice bait but you can’t fish without a hook. I bet you don’t know WHY, do you? If you might actually know why, then you’re being intellectually dishonest.

I know why.

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Georgia Vandy Florida Ole Miss Kentucky

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And they dodged LSU. It would have raised the RPI had they played one of them at home and fricking skil drug UGA, especially UK for nearly a year, how about that 1-11 UF early? All those dumbasses got a boost in RPI because they played each other including SOME LOST ON THE ROAD BUT STILL WENT UP.

What was the conference record on winning the weekend? How did that play out?

LSU losing to NWST probably hurt more than anything late in the season. I saw all I needed to in SCe with that tiny arse park. UGA. None of those frickers played UT when they had their ace like LSU did. If Johnson knew Evans was going to do what he did, lsu wins 2 of those games IN AUSTIN.