I turned that game on last night. Wake seemed fully in control, then dropped an infield fly ball with two outs. A 1-run inning turns into an 8-run inning, including walking runs home. They seemed mentally broken.
We're not on that list because we lost to Northeastern 7-0 in Atlanta in early March. So...
There's a real chance they're a tournament team. Your point stands, but that loss isn't turning out to be the disaster it felt like at the time.
I would say that it was never a "disaster" loss for me, as Northeastern was a top 25 ranked team at the beginning of the season, and was a quality team when we played them. I suspect the "disaster" part from some fans were the games surrounding that game.
Baseball America has 8 ACC teams excluding us as second 4 out. By the way, they have Ga. Southern as last 4 in. 4 #1s (including Clemson, FSU and UNC as national seeds), 3 #2, 1 #3.
BA must be projecting what they THINK will happen moving forward. There is no way that Southern is in if the season ended right now. They have a losing record overall, a .500 conference record, placing them 8th in the Sun Belt.
Really the gauntlet started three weeks ago when we took the series against a ranked VA Tech then followed it up with a series win AT top ten UVA and followed that up with a series win against Miami after dropping the Friday game. In two of those series we easily could have had a sweep with a break or two. Sure we finish up against three top ranked teams but it's not like we haven't already been winning against some pretty good teams. That being said, who knows how we finish up but at least we are trending in the right direction.
Agree completely
Very well said.