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Nebraska is Big Ten tournament champ.

Unusual mix of teams for NCAA CWS — tends to be more regional than this. Hopefully an advantage for the Diamond Heels.
 
If the Diamond Heels advance, they would play the Oregon regional winner in the Bosh …

 
Wow. GaTech the 2 seed in Ole Miss regional — Ole Miss is the 10-seed. I would have thought they would be the 2-seed in 15 or 16 regional.

The Rambling Wreck won the ACC regular season and wasn’t close to being a host seed, sent to play at the 7th place SEC team.
 
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Red are SEC teams, yellow ACC (+blue for Diamond Heels). Committee managed to limit seeding SeC v SEC super-regional matchups to only 2 of 8, which took some work given that SEC had so many host seeds.
 
nycfan said:
Wow. GaTech the 2 seed in Ole Miss regional — Ole Miss is the 10-seed. I would have thought they would be the 2-seed in 15 or 16 regional.

The Rambling Wreck won the ACC regular season and wasn’t close to being a host seed, sent to play at the 7th place SEC team.
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While I get that GT was the regular season champ, they won that due to cancelled games plus completely avoiding the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place teams in the ACC. They also didn't make the finals of the ACCT.

They're probably a couple of lines lower than they should be, but that's not unheard of given all the things the committee has to balance.
 
SnoopRob said:
While I get that GT was the regular season champ, they won that due to cancelled games plus completely avoiding the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place teams in the ACC. They also didn't make the finals of the ACCT.

They're probably a couple of lines lower than they should be, but that's not unheard of given all the things the committee has to balance.
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nycfan said:
Wow. GaTech the 2 seed in Ole Miss regional — Ole Miss is the 10-seed. I would have thought they would be the 2-seed in 15 or 16 regional.

The Rambling Wreck won the ACC regular season and wasn’t close to being a host seed, sent to play at the 7th place SEC team.
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I suspect GT's placement has less to do with their relative strength as a 2-seed and more to do with the potential drama of a GT-UGA super regional if they were to make it out of Oxford.
 
Calheel said:
Assuming we get out of our regional, guessing the Super Regional ticket demand will be a little less than last year with WVa.
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I do not think you are correct about that. The demand for tickets to the regional was already in excess of the seating capacity by quite a bit. There will be no public tickets offered beyond SRO.

The super (if we advance) will be TIIIIIIGHT for tickets.
 
wmheel1287 said:
I do not think you are correct about that. The demand for tickets to the regional was already in excess of the seating capacity by quite a bit. There will be no public tickets offered beyond SRO.

The super (if we advance) will be TIIIIIIGHT for tickets.
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Oh, I’m sure the demand will be tight on the UNC side. But I doubt any of the Oregon regional teams would take the entire visitor allotment - much less putting pressure on the secondary market. LSU and WVA fans really drove up prices last year.
 
akillesheel said:
I suspect GT's placement has less to do with their relative strength as a 2-seed and more to do with the potential drama of a GT-UGA super regional if they were to make it out of Oxford.
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You think they seed for dramatic effect in college baseball?
 
akillesheel said:
IC's baseball board is usually pretty decent - it got awful as soon as the postseason started and the front-running basketball/football fans started trickling in who know nothing about the sport or the program; it's just the dregs of those sports' board users.
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I agree with part of that.

I read most of the game threads throughout the season (usually the quickest way to get the score).

Baseball game threads strike me as being worse than football or basketball game threads.
 
The baseball game threads are the worst. We go down 1-0 in the top of the first and the doomers and gloomers are unbearable. I use to go there just to get the score but now I just go to the d1 site.
 
SnoopRob said:
While I get that GT was the regular season champ, they won that due to cancelled games plus completely avoiding the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place teams in the ACC. They also didn't make the finals of the ACCT.

They're probably a couple of lines lower than they should be, but that's not unheard of given all the things the committee has to balance.
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GT was 21st in RPI, which probably factored into the committee's thinking. UNC was 6th in RPI, which probably helped drag us to a lower seed than we were hoping.
 
wmheel1287 said:
I do. They have done so in many instances in the past. Geography and TV matchups play a role for sure.
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Eh, I tend to think this is more just the fact that the bracket is always inevitably going to set up some potential rivalry games even if you're not trying. If they were really focused on rivalry games for TV's sake, for example, they could have set up Oregon vs. Oregon State in the supers, or UNC vs NC State, or Auburn vs. Alabama.
 
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