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You're saying Louisville DESERVES to be seeded higher than LSU now when LSU went 5-0 and did nothing to deserve to be jumped? 56-9 means less than one weekend?

Louisville doesn't deserve to be seeded higher than LSU, and they aren't. They beat the number #2 team in the tournament, so now they occupy that spot. My problem is that reseeding changes the game in the middle of a tournmanet. Do what they do now. Seed everyone at the outset and then let the cards fall where they may. What you're proposing is to continuosly and artificially give the higher seeded teams an "easier" path to the championship throughout the tournament simply based on the previous results. So if the #8 seed is the only national seed to advance to the CWS they should automatically be bumped to the #1 just by that mere virture, while at the same time penalizing the the other 7 teams just because they happened to defeat their higher seeded opponent? You play who shows up in the bracket next. If the supposed "better" team loses before they get to you, well then that's just the breaks of the tournament format.

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Posted by s_i5

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Posted on 6/12/13 at 10:36 pm to Alt26

Under the current format (since 1999) there have been 14 National Championships.

7 times a top eight national seed has won the CWS.
7 times an un-seeded team has won the CWS.

5 of the 7 national seeds to win, won it in the first 5 seasons under this format (99-03). The next 5 seasons, no national seed won the CWS.

In the past 9 seasons, only 2 national seeds (2009, 2011) have won the CWS.

Number of times the #1 overall seed has won the CWS under the current format: 1 (1999).

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