re: Softball: #10 LSU 0 vs North Dakota State 1 Final

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Btw todays RPI is out, LSU is at #12

Need to take care of business this week

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12 isn't a bad spot to be right now. Still have series left with #4 Florida, #7 Tennessee and #14 Texas A&M. The Baylor win will look good all year (they are #13) and the NDSU loss won't look so horrible. They are currently RPI #86, but any committee member who does their homework knows that NDSU is a good ball club who has a pitcher who beat Oklahoma in the regional last year. I don't think that loss will hang over our heads too much. Almost every team has a loss or 2 to a team outside the top 50.

Even with their 19-17 record, Missouri still has an RPI of 23. We definitely need to go take care of business up there. I sincerely hope it isn't a repeat of the Easter weekend massacre at Ole Miss last year. For some reason, we are the only series that doesn't have a game on Easter Sunday. You would figure some of the other schools would play 2 on Friday (which is a holiday) and one on Saturday and have Easter Sunday off.

I am optimistic that our bats will come alive against mediocre Missouri pitching. I may be wrong...but I am hopeful. Would love a sweep....maybe 2 out of 3 is ok...but losing this series is not a good option that would bode well for the future. If you told me right now that we would take 2 of the 6 games that we have left between Tennessee/Florida...I would take it and take my chances at sweeping one or 2 of the home series.

And it would be nice if Kentucky would jump back into the top 25 (currently 28) just to make those losses look a little better.