Starting this thread now...

To date, we know that UNC, Miami, FSU, Virginia and NC State are hosting regionals.

National Seeds

#1 Florida
#2 UCLA
#3 Florida State
#4 Baylor
#5 Oregon
#6 North Carolina
#7 LSU
#8 South Carolina

ACC Schools in the field of 64:

Georgia Tech
#2 Seed in Gainesville Regional (OUCH)

NC State
#1 in Raleigh Regional

Virginia
#1 in Charlottesville Regional

Clemson
#2 Clemson in Columbia Regional

Miami
#1 in Coral Gables Regional

North Carolina
#1 in Chapel Hill Regional

Florida State
#1 in Tallahassee Regional

Other Schools of interest:

#3 College of Charleston (Gainesville)
#3 NC Wilmington (Raleigh)
#3 Appalachian State (Charlottesville)
#1 South Carolina (Columbia)
#3 Coastal Carolina (Columbia)
#2 East Carolina (Chapel Hill)

Down year for the state of SC. Clemson, SC, CofC, and Coastal got in. Usually have a few others getting in like Wofford, Furman, USC Upstate, Charleston Southern, and others getting in.

(05-28-2012 11:11 AM)ecuacc4ever Wrote:  Georgia Tech
#2 Seed in Gainesville Regional (OUCH)

With our long and proud history of choking quick and often in regionals, we have no business hosting a regional until we actually advance out of one.

Ugh. Clemson is 1-3 against teams in the Columbia Regional, and has lost plenty of "WTF" games to weaker teams this year. Wouldn't surprise me if we were "Two and BBQ"

Wake got completely hosed. Wake's stats totally beat Michigan State's in every category. And sorry ECU fans, but Wake's stats were ahead of the Pirates too. Of course ECU had an administrator on the committee...amazing how that works, much like how St. Johns got in over LSU last year.

I can't wait to see Michigan State get BTFO'd and the committee have egg on its face.

And Aaron Fitt from Baseball America agrees: http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/college/

Quote:1. Wake Forest deserves to be in the field of 64 after sweeping Clemson in the final weekend to finish 13-17 in the nation's strongest RPI conference. The Demon Deacons are inside the top 40 in the RPI (No. 38) and posted a better conference record than fellow ACC bubble teams Virginia Tech and Maryland, which each missed the conference tournament (and also the NCAA tournament).

"Utlimately, looking at their conference regular-season record, we couldn't get over 13-17 in conference," Kallander said of the Deacs. It's worth noting, however, that Miami was just three games better in the ACC but managed to host a regional (more on that below).

Deacons coach Tom Walter was somewhat philosophical, saying, "It's our job to make the decision easy for them, and we didn't do it."

The Deacons played 21 games against the top 25 in the RPI and went just 6-15 in those games, but that still compares very favorably with Michigan State, which somehow got an at-large spot despite finishing in fifth place in the Big Ten. (Also, Wake played 12 of those games on the road in league play—at Miami, North Carolina, N.C. State and Virginia.) The Spartans finished four games out of first, three out of second and two out of third, so it's not like East Carolina, which finished sixth in a tightly bunched C-USA, just a half-game out of second place.

Michigan State went just 2-5 against the top 25 and 3-6 against the top 50 and 13-12 against the top 100. Wake was 15-19 against the top 50 and 17-23 against the top 100. And while Michigan State's RPI (No. 45) is in solid at-large range, the Spartans are still seven spots behind the Deacs. MSU had a chance to finish in second place if it won a season-ending home series against Penn State—and if it had done so, it would have deserved an at-large bid. Instead, the Spartans lost two of three in that series, which should have been a death blow to their case.

In a conference call with media, Division I Baseball Committee chairman Kyle Kallander indicated the opinion of the eight regional advisors—coaches from around the nation—weighed heavily into some of their discussions, and it seemed to be a big factor in the decision to take the Spartans.

"Coaches felt they were the second-best team in the region," Kallander said. "They did play a good schedule in nonconference, they did challenge themselves. In their region, they were the second team right behind Purdue."

He's probably right—the Spartans look like the second-best team in the region, on paper. If that's the case, then the Spartans sure underachieved by finishing fifth in their own conference, let alone their region. Wake Forest, on the other hand, performed about how it should have and maybe even overachieved slightly by finishing seventh in a loaded ACC.

(05-29-2012 09:04 AM)Lucy Wrote:  And sorry ECU fans, but Wake's stats were ahead of the Pirates too. Of course ECU had an administrator on the committee...amazing how that works

I found it odd that ECU went from supposedly a bubble team to a #2. Then again, it's going to make UNC's path to CWS just a tad easier.

I know fellow Pirates hope for the best, and I agree -- I hope for the best. I just happened to see UNC pitch a good NC State team out of the ACC Tourney over the weekend.