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FWIW, weather forecast right now looks about as perfect as one could expect for this time of year. Less than 20% chance of rain, and high's in the low 80's.

I've gotta agree with Lagrange on this one. As I wrote earlier, there were 5 "controversial" decisions and all 5 went the way of the school that had a representative on the committee. And, as pointed out, what is "important" changes continuously. I wrote this a week or two ago; I truly believe...

Speaking of, SMU doesn't play baseball. So baseball will remain at an even number of schools for now, adding Cal and Stanford to go to 16 teams. It was just a few years ago that Cal was really close to closing down shop on baseball, hopefully that is in their past now.

So what do we know about UNC-Wilmington? Anyone with any first-hand knowledge? I can (and will) look at stats but I don't know anything 1st hand. It looks like they have two good starters, RJ Sales and Zane Taylor. Both are junior RHP. My guess is that we'll get Sales. He regularly goes 6...

And lost game 1 of the tourney. They didn't show up when it mattered. They shouldn't be in, period.

TBH, the fact that all of the controversial calls (East Carolina over Duke, Coastal Carolina over TCU, Kansas St over TCU, etc.) went in the favor of schools that had committee members is not a good look. You can talk about "safety protocols" and recusals all you want, but it sure looks fishy.

The committee chair said they looked at how many conference series a school won, so I guess that played heavily in our favor. I understand that to a degree, but the implication of that is, if a team wins the first two games of a series, that 3rd game is close to irrelevant. Not sure that is a...

Yep, TCU along with Northeastern and Charleston are the three I missed on. Kansas St, UConn, and Florida got in over them.

When I saw NC State as the #10 overall my hopes increased! Yes!!!!

Yep, as well as Kansas St. Two of my 1st four out are in. Not looking good for us, IMO.

Yes, Fitt actually made that point on the YouTube video. Our resume is very similar to Florida's except that they are in the SEC while we are in the ACC, and we played Radford and Youngstown St on non-conference weekends whereas they played St. Mary's and Columbia. Both of us had some high end...

They took series against Texas A&M, UGa, Mississippi St, and LSU while not getting swept by Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, or South Carolina. They did, of course, get swept by Missouri. I agree that Florida doesn't belong, they have proven over a 30 game schedule that they aren't...

Certainly we had every chance to play ourselves off of the bubble and failed to do so. We have left it in the hands of a committee. Not a great idea. I watched the D1 Baseball YouTube show where they picked their final 64. I'm glad they aren't the official committee and hopefully the official...

I can see the difficulty in picking these last few teams. Thankfully, unlike football, we are talking about teams who will likely just be cannon fodder in the regionals and not teams with a legit chance of winning the championship. I'm certainly glad that football is making that issue better for...

Wofford beat Samford in the 1st game today and has put up a 4 spot in the top of the 1st in game 2. If they can get enough pitching to close that game out in would be real helpful to us as Samford's 88 RPI isn't going to get them an at-large, but Wofford's 50 RPI puts them in competition with us...

Not only did we play them in a weekend series, but we agreed to play 4 games that weekend!!! So ours is skewed by 33% more than the other two schools.

I already had East Carolina getting knocked out baked into my analysis. Evansville just beat Indiana St, so that is officially a stolen bid. I also already had that one baked in, so doesn't affect my bubble. Nebraska has made it to the Big Ten championship, so I'm moving the Big Ten out of...

Thanks! FWIW (hint, close to nothing), here are my Last Four In/First Four Out as of 4 PM EST: Note that I have 3 or 4 bids as likely to be "stolen" right now, depending on if you consider St. John's in the Big East as a stolen bid... Tulane in the AAC, St. John's in the Big East, Michigan in...

Yes, Monday at noon.

Yep Fitted, I agree that UConn's resume isn't great. I'm suspecting that the Big East will get two, it's just a matter of which two. If Xavier beats Georgetown today they will be one if the two, with St. John'slikely the other. If Georgetown wins I suspect UConn sneaks in. But they will...