2024 college baseball/softball thread

Wowsers. Those three consecutive replies made for one-half of a helluva argument.

 

Outside of the Ivy champ Penn, UVA has to deal with a pretty hairy home regional. St. John's is always a pain in the ass and I don't think Clanga will be scared going into Charlottesville.

That UCSB regional should be pretty good. Committee getting cute putting Georgia and Georgia Tech and Texas and Texas A&M in regionals together.

 

But still plenty of West Coast bias in the Santa Barbara region with Fresno State, Oregon and San Diego.

 

Not only is Florida in, they weren't even one of the last four in. The Selection Committee honk bragged about their tough non-league schedule, which they went an amazing five games over .500 in. Florida played exactly four of its 25 OOC games against P5 opponents. And it lost all four.

Must be nice for one league to start the season knowing if you just finish above .500, you're in, but everybody else has to either win their league or go +8 or +9 to earn an at-large. Half the programs in the country may as well not play at all.

What a joke.

 

On the other hand, one of those West Coast teams are guaranteed to get to a super regional.

 

There are a few of those gems hidden in there, like Tulane and Nicholls heading to Oregon State together.
Also, Southern Miss going to Tennessee for a potential rematch of their super regional series last season ought to be fun. It got a little feisty last year, with Tennessee fans complaining about USM's stadium and ticket availability, and the indignity of having to travel to Hattiesburg.

 

Florida grad here. They don't belong in. 13-18 in league, poor OOC results.

2 and Q would not be a surprise.

 

Florida took 2 of 3 at No. 7 seed Georgia to end the regular season. I suspect that put it over the top.

 

If it hadn't, would have finished below .500 for the year and been out.

 

They were talking about all they had to do was finish above .500 and they were in in early May.

No quarrel that the SEC is the best baseball conference. But it's not 11 deep when #11 has Florida's record.

 

Did any team play its way off the bubble and to an at-large bid with its conference tournament results? How about playing its way to host status?