While the MLB is just now shaking the rust off of the pitchers and catchers, College Baseball kick off their season today.

Yep. Going to try to go tomorrow. Would go today but the game starts during work hours. Arkansas hosts Ball State.

Here's the games this weekend involving Baseball America Top 25 teams:

Top 25 Series
New Mexico at (1) Texas
(3) Virginia at (18) East Carolina
Centenary at (3) Louisiana State
(5) Rice at Stanford
Missouri State at (6) Georgia Tech
South Florida at (7) Florida
Loyola Marymount at/vs./at (8) UC Irvine
Georgia State at (9) Florida State
Duquesne at (10) South Carolina
Sam Houston State at (11) Texas Christian
Bowling Green State at (13) Louisville
Northern Illinois at (14) Arizona State
Rutgers at (16) Miami
Ball State at (17) Arkansas
George Washington at (20) North Carolina
Northwestern State at (21) Southern Mississippi
Louisiana-Monroe at (24) Mississippi
(25) Oregon State at Hawaii

Top 25 Tournaments
Round robin, three sites in Southern California:
(4) Cal State Fullerton, Long Beach State, Oregon, Pepperdine

Caravelle Resort Tournament, Conway, S.C.:
(12) Coastal Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia Tech, West Virginia

Round robin, two sites in South Carolina:
15) Clemson, Furman, Miami (Ohio), Michigan State

San Diego State Tournament:
19) San Diego, Indiana, Oklahoma, San Diego State

QTI Apparel Opening Weekend Classic, Waco, Texas:
(22) Georgia, Baylor, Duke

MLB Urban Invitational, Los Angeles/Compton, Calif.:
(23) UCLA, Bethune-Cookman, Cal State Northridge, Southern

go Coastal Carolina! Pre-season hype seems to give the Chants a good chance to go to Omaha this season, sure hope that happens.

Maybe New Orleans can win the Sun Belt in their final year as a member of the conference. I can dream.

omfg im watching arkansas baseball

Does anyone know if any of these games are being streamed on the net(and free too)?

Thanks.

Does anyone know if any of these games are being streamed on the net(and free too)?

Thanks.

It isn't quite the same as live audio or video, but the NCAA has brought back their gametracker from last season. It was a great tool to use during the CWS.

NCAA.com – The Official Website of NCAA Championships (http://www.ncaa.com/sports/m-basebl/ncaa-m-basebl-body.html)

Well the Arkansas game is being streamed live, but it is premium content for Razorvision subscribers (which I am).

It isn't quite the same as live audio or video, but the NCAA has brought back their gametracker from last season. It was a great tool to use during the CWS.

NCAA.com – The Official Website of NCAA Championships (http://www.ncaa.com/sports/m-basebl/ncaa-m-basebl-body.html)

Cool, thanks. It's better than nothing.

Lets see if UCLA can to their career CWS appearances of...1

Arkansas wins their opener 9-2.

EDIT: excuse me, 10-2

Lets see if UCLA can to their career CWS appearances of...1

That is kinda strange, considering how much success Cal State Fullerton and USC have had over the years.

A former student/player of mine is playing for Navy, Will Shuttleworth. Go Navy!

omfg im watching arkansas baseball
wow that never happens

That is kinda strange, considering how much success Cal State Fullerton and USC have had over the years.

Yup. They had a coach, Gary Adams, who was there for about 30 years. Nice guy, graduated players, and thats all Peter Dalis ever wanted from the program

wow that never happens

not when its not baseball season it doesn't

not when its not baseball season it doesn't
english only please

Hoping UW women softball team can repeat. Go Dawgs!

Hawaii has a good shot again this year, spent a lot of last season in the top 25. I think they will be decent.

dola, bottom 7 right now hawaii tied 6-6 with Oregon St.

Well Arkansas dropped one to Ball State today. 5-2. Blech. Went to the game. Cold, wet, and miserable.

With Medlar Field a 45 second drive away, I'll be going to a ton of PSU games this year.

Arkansas salvaged the series with Ball State (who was a surprisingly good mid-major team) with a 9-3 win today.

Next weekend is Troy for 3 games.

Coastal Carolina went 2-1 in their tourney, losing 3-2 to Kentucky in what was a very sloppy last game for them-got thrown out at home, got picked off twice, and a passed ball in the last lead to the losing run.

Loving Georgia Tech (14-1) getting a 6-5 win over Georgia (8-9) tonight as the Dawg pen walks home the eventual winning run in the bottom of the 8th.

Shouldn't have been that close but I'll take it.

UVA somehow managing to hold on to its #1 ranking in BA poll despite a great LSU team staying undefeated. One of UVA's losses was a bad-ish loss (the other one is as good of a loss as you can have ... giving up a walk-off HR to the #3 team in the country on a Sunday conference game on the road). Guess we're getting back some of that karma from getting royally screwed last year. :)

UVA somehow managing to hold on to its #1 ranking in BA poll despite a great LSU team staying undefeated.

Looking at the correct week? LSU lost twice last week.

Looking at the correct week? LSU lost twice last week.

Whoops, assumed they stayed undefeated. Careless on my part. :)

Anyways, glad UVA is doing everything it can to avoid another screw job!!!

Not that the ACC isn't always pretty darn good at baseball, but damn:

#1 UVA (12-3)
#3 Georgia Tech (13-1)
#5 Florida State (13-2) - both losses to #1 UVA
#11 Clemson (13-1)
#17 Miami (10-4)
#24 North Carolina (12-4)

(courtesy baseball america)

UCLA is undefeated this year curtersy of their two superb aces in Gerrit Cole and Trevor Bauer. Cole was the first round pick of the Yankees two years ago and a client of Boras who was shocked that he picked college over the Yankees.

Good story about the kid
Why Did Gerrit Cole Turn Down Millions For UCLA? - Bruins Nation (http://www.bruinsnation.com/2009/7/12/947049/why-did-gerrit-cole-turn-down)

UCLA continues to cruise as they look to have one of the best, if not the best pitching staff in college baseball right now.

Just gotta pray to avoid the Bruin fade

Arkansas sweeps Alabama, winning 10-5 today. Last season, Arkansas was 1-5 vs. Bama and LSU, this season, 4-2 (and should be 5-1, frankly: complete bullpen meltdown cost the Hogs in Game 2 vs. LSU). This team is improved over last year and it was a CWS team last year. I'm excited. Hope we hold it together and peak at the right time.

#3 GT (21-2, 8-1) sweeps #17 UNC on the road with an 11-8 win in 10 innings today. Never mind the sweep, this is the first series win over the Tar Heels since 2006, first series win in Chapel Hill since 2003.

Zack Cox (best 3rd baseman in the country) just snapped his 24 game hitting streak with a fly out in the bottom of the 8th leading 9-4 over Centenary (unless Centenary rallies and Arkansas bats around). Too bad, I guess. Arkansas is up to #8 in the RPI. #10 Baseball America.

UCLA is 21-0 on the season and up to #6

Arkansas drops game 1 at home against Kentucky, 12-8. Come back to win 10-1 on Saturday setting the stage for an epic game 3.

Both teams 1-2-3 in the first inning which is pretty lol. The end of the 2nd inning it was 8-5 Arkansas. Arkansas then added 5 more and looked to be on their way to an easy win at 13-5. Kentucky slowly crawled back into it at 13-9 going to the 8th. A 7 run inning for Kentucky saw them pull back in front 16-13. Quick work until the bottom of the 9th. Arkansas works the bases loaded with 2 outs and 2 strikes and Colin Kuhn hits a walk-off grand slam to win the game and series 17-16.

Wow.

#2 Georgia Tech (25-3) recovers from a mid-week loss to Kennesaw State to sweep Duke.

UGA's (10-17) struggles continue, although they did manage to win 1 of 3 from #4 LSU this weekend.

Arkansas up to #3 in the RPI! If the pitching gets better (which I think it will) this team can be really good. The hitting is definitely picking up, and the fielding is improving (man, we had a lot of errors at the beginning of the year). I think this team is capable of a lot.

Arkansas destroys St. Louis 32-8. Game was called after the 7th inning. A 14 run 1st inning got things started.

Arkansas swept New Mexico in a mid-week series (tough team, 2 one run wins) and then sweeps Georgia this weekend, outscoring them 33-9. Arkansas is now leading both the SEC West and SEC overall races, both by one game over LSU and South Carolina, at 12-3.

ETA: also swept Mississippi State on the road last weekend.

Texas gets their 3rd straight series sweep and now have won 11 in a row.

UCLA drops their first series of the year, to Oregon. The 3rd game is today, but I doubt it matters. That was a short lived stay as #1

#5 Georgia Tech completes the sweep of #16 Clemson with an 11-3 decision this afternoon, wrapping up a great week that included a 26-5 win over UGA that marked the most runs & most hits allowed by their rival in more than 100 years.

Georgia's weekend starters were pretty terrible; I can only imagine what kind of nonsense they put on the mound for a mid-week game. One guy today threw the worst pitch I've seen ever in my life. It hit the netting behind the plate. Not the backstop, the netting. Must've missed the catchers attempt to stab at it by 15 feet or more.

Georgia's weekend starters were pretty terrible; I can only imagine what kind of nonsense they put on the mound for a mid-week game. One guy today threw the worst pitch I've seen ever in my life. It hit the netting behind the plate. Not the backstop, the netting. Must've missed the catchers attempt to stab at it by 15 feet or more.

Well they had plenty of choices, they used 10 pitchers in the mid-week game, none of whom lasted more than 2 IP's and like 3 or 4 who lasted 1/3rd or less. They're truly one of the worst staffs I can ever recall seeing at this level, so much so that the natives are starting to use the word "fire" in relationship to Coach Perno in spite of a ton of historical success. I don't see any way that happens now but if next year starts out the same way I doubt he'd make it to the end of a second year of this, it's truly abysmal baseball.

I love it :D

UCLA drops their first series of the year, to Oregon. The 3rd game is today, but I doubt it matters. That was a short lived stay as #1

I wouldn't sweat it. MLB, of course, is not the same as college, but in the MLB, the best teams ever have, what, a little over a 70% winning percentage? UCLA's at around 85% now, maybe higher, and Oregon's a decent new program. I think UCLA has already done plenty to prove its credentials, and the Bruins will no doubt bounce back quickly.

UVA with an awful loss today to VaTech, failing to get the series sweep. :( Walked four guys in a row in the top of the 9th with a two-run lead and one out.

Coastal Carolina swept yet another Big South opponent to remain undefeated in the Conference and has the most wins of any team in the nation. After beating North Carolina on the road last week, its looking more and more likely that Coastal will get its first ever national seed in the postseason.

I just hope this is the last time this season they face N. Carolina, as they own Coastal in the postseason.

Speaking of UNC, here's a pretty good illustration of how goofy hard the ACC is right now.

The Heels were #31 in the latest RPI (4/13, new one due tomorrow I guess), still in the "still receiving votes" for all of the Top 25's ... but if the season ended today they wouldn't even qualify for conference tournament (8 teams get in, top 2 from each division + four best remaining records in ACC).

wow that is goofy Jon. I know Carolina is having a bad season for them at least, but that would be freaky if they didn't even make the conference tournament.

wow that is goofy Jon. I know Carolina is having a bad season for them at least, but that would be freaky if they didn't even make the conference tournament.

It really is pretty wild, but that's what they're up against.

As of Sunday FSU & Clemson are the top 2 in the Atlantic, GT & Miami are the top 2 in the Coastal. For the other four spots, Virginia is 12-6, then NC State, BC, and Va Tech are all 9-9, which would fill the field. They're followed by Duke & UNC at 6-12, then Maryland (4-14) and Wake (2-16) bring up the rear. And Duke even has the tiebreaker edge over UNC thanks to taking 2 of 3 from them in their only series of the year.

The remaining schedule for UNC isn't a picnic either, with Clemson, Wake, UVA, and VaTech still to go.

It is not totally hopeless for UNC. Oklahoma State made the field of 64 last year despite not making the Big 12 tournament.

Texas is now up to 16 consecutive wins. They've now swept four straight series against conference opponents. Pitching has been lights out for Texas, with the staff giving up 3 or fewer runs in 14 of those 16 straight wins.

With Arizona State slipping up twice this past week, the Horns have a good shot at reclaiming the #1 spot in the polls.

GT loses 2 of 3 at home to Va Tech.

Jackets are now 16-5 in the conference, Miami & UVA are both 15-6 after the Canes dropped 2 of 3 to FSU while Virginia swept Maryland.

After sweeping conference rival VMI, Coastal Carolina stays in Virginia for a big game today against Virginia. They are ranked either #1 and #5 in the polls while Coastal is ranked #4 and #10. I hope the weather cooperates.

After sweeping conference rival VMI, Coastal Carolina stays in Virginia for a big game today against Virginia. They are ranked either #1 and #5 in the polls while Coastal is ranked #4 and #10. I hope the weather cooperates.

Weather should be fine here in Charlottesville...

Sadly the Chants could not keep the magic alive and had their 14 game winning streak broken by Virginia 6-3.

Texas swept Baylor over the weekend to push their winning streak to 20 games, and have set a Big 12 record with 17 straight conference wins. Their magic number to claim the regular season conference crown is 1.

GT loses 2 out of 3 at home vs NC State, falls all the way to 3rd place in their division, now trailing both UVA & Miami by one full game. FSU has a 3 game lead over Clemson in the other half.

Jackets fall all the way to #17 from #8 in the Baseball America rankings (UVA, Texas, Az State, Florida, and FSU are the top 5, Coastal Carolina is #7, UCLA falls back to #12, Arkansas is #14 among teams that get some mentions in this thread)

UCLA was destroyed at home by ASU. Bad series all around

Arkansas has had a bad couple of weekends. Got hosed on a call at the plate to lose the series at Florida and then gave up an 8 run 5th inning Saturday against Auburn and basically shut them down the rest of the game. Of course, getting blown out 13-2 the following day lost that series. Haven't been swept yet, at least, but our momentum is pretty much gone. Went through a similar, but much worse, stretch last season and still managed to catch fire in the tournament. Hope to do so again.

Coastal Carolina swept UNC-Asheville to remain undefeated in Big South play.

GT loses 2 out of 3 at home vs NC State, falls all the way to 3rd place in their division, now trailing both UVA & Miami by one full game. FSU has a 3 game lead over Clemson in the other half.

Not that it matters as we hit our typical late-season swoon; but that series was at State.

In honor of the final series of games in Rosenblatt's history, the NCAA came out with the "College World Series Legends Team".

NCAA And CWS, INC., Announce College World Series Legends Team - NCAA.com – The Official Website of NCAA Championships (http://www.ncaa.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/050610aaa.html)


Name Institution Pos Year In CWS
Will Clark Mississippi State University 1B 1985
Dustin Ackley University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1B 2007-09
Bob Horner Arizona State University 2B 1976-78
Todd Walker Louisiana State University 2B 1993-94
Spike Owen University of Texas at Austin SS 1981-82
Nomar Garciaparra Georgia Institute of Technology SS 1994
*Darwin Barney Oregon State University SS 2005-07
Sal Bando Arizona State University 3B 1964-65
Robin Ventura Oklahoma State University 3B 1986-87
*Pat Burrell University of Miami (Florida) 3B 1996-98
Fred Lynn University of Southern California OF 1971-73
Dave Winfield University of Minnesota, Twin Cities OF 1973
Terry Francona University of Arizona OF 1979-80
Barry Bonds Arizona State University OF 1983-84
Mark Kotsay California State University, Fullerton OF 1994-95
J.D. Drew Florida State University OF 1995-96
Steve Arlin The Ohio State University P 1965-66
Burt Hooton University of Texas at Austin P 1969-70
*Eddie Bane Arizona State University P 1972-73
Huston Street University of Texas at Austin P 2002-04
Jason Windsor California State University, Fullerton P 2004
Landon Powell University of South Carolina, Columbia C 2002-04
Ryan Garko Stanford University C 2001-03
Pete Incaviglia Oklahoma State University DH 1983-85
Brooks Kieschnick University of Texas at Austin DH 1992-93
Skip Bertman Louisiana State University Coach 1986-87, 89-91, 93-94, 96-98, 2000
Rod Dedeaux University of Southern California Coach 1951, 55, 58, 60-61, 63-64, 66, 68, 70-74, 78
Augie Garrido California State University, Fullerton / University of Texas at Austin Coach 1975, 79, 82, 84, 92, 94-95 / 2000, 02-05, 09
* Utility Player

Arkansas goes on the road and takes 2 of 3 from Ole Miss. Frankly, the Rebels' Saturday starter had the game of his life last night to help them take game 2 by a score of 3-2. The other two games were much easier wins for the Hogs, 11-4 and 7-0. Good to see us rebound from a couple of poor weekends. Need to finish strong and get on a roll for the post-season.

Texas had their 20 game win streak stopped by #20 Kansas State, losing 2-1 on Friday. They got revenge the next day, winning 17-2, and clinching the regular season Big 12 crown. The finished the series on Sunday with a 6-5 win.

South Carolina sweeps Arkansas in Fayetteville. Three good games, all 3 had very timely hits and great pitching for the Gamecocks. Arkansas had decent pitching, but never got the timely hits. Big blow to our hosting goals. We'll see how we respond at Vandy next weekend.

Amazing LSU got swept by Kentucky and may not even make the SEC tournament.

wow, the WAC is ending the season absolutely crazy. New Mexico St. was running away with the division 10 days ago. Now they have lost 7 straight conference games and any team in the top 5 has a chance to win the WAC regular season . Hawai'i has won 5 of 6 but has to win out to have any chance, but looks decent to at least win 2 or 3 of 4 if not the next 4. craziness!

GT takes 2/3 from Miami, pulls into a 2nd place tie for the division but still 1 game back of UVA which beat UNC today to stay in front. Miami & UVA play next weekend to end the regular season while GT travels to BC.

Amazing LSU got swept by Kentucky and may not even make the SEC tournament.

Never seen so manytalented players lose so much confidence under a very good coach before. It is still a top 5-10 talented team with guys with the right attitude, the wheels have just come off. After all the LSU teams that have found their groove so easily over the years, I guess there was bound to be a year like this sooner or later.

Texas swept La Tech in a doubleheader yesterday. They play Mizzou in the final series of the season this weekend, before starting conference tournament play.

It will be interesting to see who gets the #1 overall seed for the CWS. Virginia, Texas, and Arizona State all have strong cases, and Coastal Carolina could sneak in and get it as well.

Coastal swept 2nd place Liberty to claim the Big South Crown and remain undefeated. All that remains is a an out of conference home game against College of Charleston and a final series at 3rd place Radford.

Texas finished the regular season with a sweep of Mizzou. The Big 12 tournament starts on Wednesday, and Texas' first matchup is against... Mizzou.

Similar to Arkansas who finished the season taking 2 of 3 on the road at Vanderbilt and then opens the SEC tournament against Vanderbilt.

Hogs are holding out their two best players for at least the opener of the tournament, probably more, so that they will be ready for regionals. Hopefully we have done enough to host already. I think we have.

Hopefully we have done enough to host already. I think we have.

Looking at the latest RPI (before this weekend's games), I think you'd probably have to run into a perfect storm disaster scenario to not get a hosting opportunity. At that point there were 6 SEC teams in the top 16 in RPI, Arkansas was second among those trailing only Florida. I can see where an Auburn or an Alabama could end up not hosting in order to spread the geography out more but it's tough for me to imagine how Arkansas could get bumped that far down.

ACC tournament is set, with UVA & Clemson as the top two seeds (as division winners), GT and Miami as #3 & #4. FSU, Va Tech, NC State & BC round out the field.

The last spot came down to BC beating GT in the regular season finale, allowing them to stay tied for #8 with UNC who did all they could do by sweeping Va Tech. NC State got in by sweeping Duke who lost 10 of their last 11 conference games.

wow North Carolina doesn't make the conference tournament. What's their overall record then? Coastal will sure breathe a sigh of relief if their nemesis is not in the NCAA's.

Speaking of Coastal, they became the 4th team since 2000 to go undefeated in their conference, and quite possibly on record for the most conference wins ever with 25. The Big South tourney starts tomorrow, though Coastal won't play till Wednesday. They likely have clinched a national seed already, baring an awful 2 losses and your out in the tournament.

Texas really screwed the pooch in the Big 12 tournament, losing their first two games. Need to get whatever is wrong turned around in a hurry.

Need to get whatever is wrong turned around in a hurry.

Thank goodness it won't be against OU. I went to the first game of the OU-texas series, and it was hard to watch our hitters against your ace. It was maybe one of the most pitcher-dominated games I've seen in college baseball (not that I'm a huge college baseball afficianado)

Hawaii has won the first two legs of the WAC tournament after coming on strong at the end of the WAC season winning something like 10 of there last 12 or 13. YAY! win a couple more , and they win the WAC tourney!

Wacky times in the ACC tourney, both GT & Clemson lose the first games in their pool to VaTech & NCSU respectively. Meanwhile the UVA/Miami pool has four teams all at 1-1 with one game to play.

And since they're a frequent part of this thread, I'll mention that Arkansas is out of the SEC tourney, eliminated yesterday by Florida. Meanwhile #8 seed LSU and #7 seed Alabama are the remaining unbeaten teams awaiting the winners of Ole Miss-Auburn and Florida-Vandy elimination games.

Arkansas went 2 and done. They rested all of their best players for the tourney. It was a clear phone-in, sadly. Cox, Eibner, and Smyly, all sat game 1, and Smyly pitched in relief in game 2.

Still looked worse than they should've. Pretty grim outlook on regional performance, but it was last year, too.

Can someone tell me who won the final regular season game in Rosenblatt history???

Coastal Carolina had to hang on to beat Radford after taking a 10-0 lead in the second, but did so successfully winning 11-9. They remain undefeated in Big South play as they take on High Point today.

Can someone tell me who won the final regular season game in Rosenblatt history???

*sigh* So bittersweet... but 99% bitter...

*sigh* So bittersweet... but 99% bitter...
Totally with you, my man.

Coastal weathered a rain delay and a 6-1 deficit after 4 innings to come back to beat High Point 15-9. They move on to the Finals on Saturday against either #4 High Point or #2 Liberty

woot woot!!! Hawaii is still undefeated in the WAC tourney as they smashed #1 seed Fresno State 11-3 last nite. And now they are 1 win away from winning the WAC tournament!

Coastal Carolina has conquered the Big South Conference this year-going undefeated during the regular season and conference tourney. They beat Liberty 8-2 to win the crown. They should now be a national seed in the NCAA's

GT wins over NC State this morning to complete the rain delayed game from last night. Now they need to beat Clemson in the game just starting & have NCSU beat VaTech in the nightcap (if I understand things right) to advance to the ACC title game.

Naturally GT loses to Clemson 9-3, so the winner of the NCSU-VaTech game tonight will advance to meet FSU in the ACC tournament final.

From the ACC Facebook feed ... Wolfpack scores on a Maynard single and holds off Hokies, 10-9 in 10 innings. #7 NC State and #5 Florida State meet in the 2010 ACC Championship Game at 1 pm.

In the SEC it'll be #7 seed Alabama vs #8 seed LSU tomorrow at 2pm Eastern.

wow that's some crazy tournaments with all the low seeds making it to the Finals

Minnesota won the Big Ten Tournament championship as the top seed and regular season champions, though it's a bit of a surprise after they were 8-16 early in the season.

From the ACC Facebook feed ... Wolfpack scores on a Maynard single and holds off Hokies, 10-9 in 10 innings.


That doesn't tell the half of it. State was pounding the Hokies early on, leading 7-1 in the fourth. In the bottom half of the fourth, State's starter lost all control and confidence, allowing the Hokies to rock him for seven runs, all with two outs (gotta love college baseball). Why wasn't he pulled? Because State's bullpen blows huge chunks. Coach Avent opted to burn up the staff ace by bringing him in relief. A little rough to start, but he kept the Pack in it the rest of the way. State managed to push over the tying run late and then won it in the 10th.

So, the Pack played two games in one day, burned up their best pitchers, and now gets to play FSU. Not ideal. State's going to have to win it with the bats again. Doesn't work over an entire season (see the #7 seed we got), but may work out in a weekend tournament.

May 30, 2010
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NCAA Release

INDIANAPOLIS – The NCAA Division I Baseball Committee announced the 16 regional sites for the 64th annual NCAA Division I Baseball Championship.

The 16 regional sites, with host institutions and records are as follows: Arizona State (47-8), Tempe, Ariz.; Arkansas (40-18), Fayetteville, Ark.; Auburn (40-19), Auburn, Ala.; Cal State Fullerton (40-15 through Saturday, May 29), Fullerton, Calif.; Coastal Carolina (51-7), Conway, S.C.; Connecticut (47-14), Storrs, Conn.; Florida (42-15), Gainesville, Fla.; Georgia Tech (45-13), Atlanta; Louisville (48-12), Louisville, Ky.; Miami (Florida) (40-17), Coral Gables, Fla.; Oklahoma (44-15), Norman, Okla.; South Carolina (43-15), Columbia, S.C.; Texas (46-11), Austin, Texas; TCU (46-11), Fort Worth, Texas; UCLA (42-13), Los Angeles; Virginia (47-11), Charlottesville, Va.

and at that HAWAII WINS ! woot. I'm sure they are off to Fullerton, they always get stuck with that regional when they get in lol. but the main thing is we are in yay! 9-6 over Fresno State, Hawaii really got hot at the right time this season.

Never seen so manytalented players lose so much confidence under a very good coach before. It is still a top 5-10 talented team with guys with the right attitude, the wheels have just come off. After all the LSU teams that have found their groove so easily over the years, I guess there was bound to be a year like this sooner or later.

But LSU pulls it together to win their third straight SEC tourny, the first #8 seed to ever win it. Could they do what Oregon State did a few years ago? (Win a second straight championship after struggling in the regular season?) Who knows. Don't know what to expect from this team at this point.

But LSU pulls it together to win their third straight SEC tourny, the first #8 seed to ever win it. Could they do what Oregon State did a few years ago? (Win a second straight championship after struggling in the regular season?) Who knows. Don't know what to expect from this team at this point.

If the pitching comes together in the NCAA tournament like it did in the SEC tournament, LSU will break a lot of teams' hearts.

UCLA has been selected to host a regional for baseball

NCAA.com – The Official Website of NCAA Championships - NCAA (http://www.ncaa.com/brackets/2010/ncaa_bracket_DI_baseball.html)

LSU, UCI? Thanks a lot NCAA...

Yea, they sent the SEC championship/defending national champion fan base that has lead NCAA in attendance for 15 or so straight years to the furtherest away regional they could possibly go to. (Although, obviously Fullerton wouldn't be much closer.) Maybe that is the very reason they did so, though. Because they knew we would help out attendance regardless of where we went. UCLA isn't one of those west coast parks that only holds around 1k people is it?

Dola, and if we manage to upset UCLA in regional, we likely have to go back to that furtherest regional area to play Fullerton in the supers. (Compare that with Fullerton's 2 and 3 seeds, which are West coast teams, and wouldn't have to go far for UCLA.)

Man, I have never see a top 30 RPI team so thoroughly hosed on location before.

Very happy to see Coastal get its first ever national seed, and a bit surprised to see them get the #4 seed in front of Virginia who the Chants lost to this season.

I'm not a big fan of playing teams in your regional that you played in the regular season though I understand the reasons behind it. I'm not a big fan of putting a College of Charleston team in as the #2 seed in Coastal's regional that beat Coastal in both games they played this season. I would have preferred someone like Clemson or Virginia Tech as the #2 seed even though they faced them this year in one game each, Coastal won both. They have also played #3 seed NC State in one game this season, beating them. #4 Stony Brook (hopefully!) shouldn't be much of a problem in the first game.

I'm just happy that they didn't get nemesis North Carolina in their regional. How about the Tar Heels making the field without even making their conference tournament?

happy with our regional but not our super partner ffs

Yea, they sent the SEC championship/defending national champion fan base that has lead NCAA in attendance for 15 or so straight years to the furtherest away regional they could possibly go to. (Although, obviously Fullerton wouldn't be much closer.) Maybe that is the very reason they did so, though. Because they knew we would help out attendance regardless of where we went. UCLA isn't one of those west coast parks that only holds around 1k people is it?

Jackie Robinson field is small. I'm not sure how many it holds but baseball is the sport UCLA is traditionally the worst sport. UCLA has the pitching to go deep in the tournament but its not a veteran team. Coach Savage is the former coach of UCI as well

Yea, they sent the SEC championship/defending national champion fan base that has lead NCAA in attendance for 15 or so straight years to the furtherest away regional they could possibly go to. (Although, obviously Fullerton wouldn't be much closer.) Maybe that is the very reason they did so, though. Because they knew we would help out attendance regardless of where we went. UCLA isn't one of those west coast parks that only holds around 1k people is it?

From the chat with the selection chair
Baton Rouge: Why are you sending LSU to California?
Tim Weiser: One of the committee's policies is not to have teams from the same conference play in the same Regional. Balancing this policy with 8 teams from each of the Pac-10, ACC and SEC makes it very difficult to put the bracket together. So in some cases teams have to travel across time zones to compete.

edit to add: So let's see how much water that holds.

There are 16 regionals, 4 of which are hosted by SEC teams, so that leaves 12 possibilities.
Based on the top 8 national seeds, it looks like the top 16 (or so, depending on who didn't bid for a host slot)
1. Arizona State (est RPI #1)
2. Texas (est RPI #5)
3. Florida (est RPI #4)
4. Coastal Carolina (est RPI #2)
5. Virginia (est RPI #3)
6. UCLA (est RPI #6)
7. Louisville (est RPI #7)
8. Georgia Tech (est RPI #11)
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9. Auburn (est RPI #16)
10. FSU (est RPI #14)
11. CS-Fullerton (est RPI #10)
12. Oklahoma (est RPI #17)
13. South Carolina (est RPI #18)
14. Miami (est RPI #8)
15. TCU (est RPI #15)
16. Arkansas (est RPI #9)

Now the NCAA official page doesn't seem to have updated the end of regular season RPI (normally done on Tuesday) but here's a link to an approximation (http://www.boydsworld.com/baseball/rpi/currentrpi.html) of it as of today. I'm adding this estimated RPI to the list above

Missing from the top 16 seeds but in the estimated RPI top 16 are Alabama (#12) and Vandy (#13), who are both #2 seeds in their regionals. The remaining #2 seeds (and est RPI, in order of their top 16 seed opponent) are Washington State (#28), Baylor (#35), Texas A&M (#20), Va Tech (#34), Cal (#37), Stanford (#36), UConn (#23), Clemson (#19), then come Alabama (#12) and Vandy (#13), followed by LSU (#22), Ole Miss (#27), Coll. of Charleston (#26), Florida Atlantic (#38), Rice (#30), and San Diego (#29).

Teams in the top 32 of estimated RPI not in the field as a #1 or #2 seed are: UNC (#21), Arizona (#24), Oregon State (#25), Oregon (#31), and The Citadel (#32).

It looks to me as though they did some heavy geography on the 9-16 placement, setting up in-state matchups on the seeds where they could (Texas-TCU, Florida-Miami, UCLA-CS Full, and an adjacent state pair in GT-Auburn).

From there, the #2 seeds should have gone roughly with the following based on estimated RPI:
#1-1 Arizona State vs #2-38 erpi Florida Atlantic (actual vs #29 erpi San Diego)
#1-2 Texas vs #37 erpi Cal (actual vs #30 erpi Rice)
#1-3 Florida vs #36 erpi Stanford (actual vs #38 erpi Florida Atlantic)
#1-4 Coastal Carolina vs #35 erpi Baylor (actual vs #26 erpi Coll. of Charleston)
#1-5 Virginia #34 erpi Va Tech (actual vs #27 erpi Ole Miss)
#1-6 UCLA vs #30 erpi Rice (actual vs #22 erpi LSU)
#1-7 Louisville vs #29 erpi San Diego (actual vs #13 erpi Vandy)
#1-8 Georgia Tech vs #28 erpi Washington State (actual vs #12 erpi Alabama)
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#1-9 Auburn vs #27 erpi Ole Miss (actual vs #19 erpi Clemson)
#1-10 FSU #26 erpi Coll of Charleston (actual vs #23 erpi UConn)
#1-11 CS-Fullerton vs #23 erpi UConn (actual vs #36 erpi Stanford)
#1-12 Oklahoma vs #22 erpi LSU (actual vs #37 erpi Cal)
#1-13 South Carolina vs #20 erpi Texas A&M (actual vs #34 erpi Va Tech)
#1-14 Miami vs #19 erpi Clemson (actual vs #20 erpi Texas A&M)
#1-15 TCU vs #13 erpi Vanderbilt (actual vs #35 erpi Baylor)
#1-16 Arkansas vs #12 erpi Alabama (actual vs #28 erpi Wash. State)

Whew, whatta mess.

It appears that they may have tried to fill in geographic matches for the highest national seeds first, with in-state or adjacent non-conference opponents for the first four. One they did that then #5 Virginia & #6 UCLA had no available geo-partner, with #7 and #8 getting in-state/adjacent partners. They then did an adjacency for #15 TCU with Baylor (which should have been Tx A&M). And after that it kind of looks like they just threw the remaining teams in a hat.

Assuming the same #1's and #2's (and without me digging through the conference tourney results I didn't follow, and without me having access to the record vs top 100, record vs top 50, etc data), I would have done something like this

#1-1 Arizona State vs San Diego (actual vs #29 erpi San Diego)
#1-2 Texas vs Rice (actual vs #30 erpi Rice)
#1-3 Florida vs Florida Atlantic (actual vs #38 erpi Florida Atlantic)
#1-4 Coastal Carolina vs Va Tech (actual vs #26 erpi Coll. of Charleston)
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#1-5 Virginia vs Cal (actual vs #27 erpi Ole Miss)
#1-6 UCLA vs Baylor (actual vs #22 erpi LSU)
#1-7 Louisville vs Vandy (actual vs #13 erpi Vandy)
#1-8 Georgia Tech vs Ole Miss (actual vs #12 erpi Alabama)
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#1-9 Auburn vs UConn (actual vs #19 erpi Clemson)
#1-10 FSU vs Stanford (actual vs #23 erpi UConn)
#1-11 CS-Fullerton vs Washington State (actual vs #36 erpi Stanford)
#1-12 Oklahoma vs LSU (actual vs #37 erpi Cal)
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#1-13 South Carolina vs Coll of Charleston (actual vs #34 erpi Va Tech)
#1-14 Miami vs Alabama (actual vs #20 erpi Texas A&M)
#1-15 TCU vs Texas A&M (actual vs #35 erpi Baylor)
#1-16 Arkansas vs Clemson (actual vs #28 erpi Wash. State)

But nobody asked me ;)

From the chat with the selection chair
Baton Rouge: Why are you sending LSU to California?
Tim Weiser: One of the committee's policies is not to have teams from the same conference play in the same Regional. Balancing this policy with 8 teams from each of the Pac-10, ACC and SEC makes it very difficult to put the bracket together. So in some cases teams have to travel across time zones to compete.

Yea I noticed that myself when I saw that they had to send Pac-10 lesser seeds across the country too. LSU basically got screwed over because they only have three west coastish sites, but a good number of Pac-10 teams that can't be put in the same regionals. So someone had to go out West, and they decided it would be LSU as a 2 seed. (Why they couldn't find a way to send out West a 3 seed is beyond me though, at least tap a Big 12 two seed before you go to the SEC.)

They might need to get rid of that rule because of years like this when 3 conferences send so many teams. Doing right with the seeds and travel considerations is more important than having teams square off against conference rivals sooner rather than later.

Ucla holds about 2k fans

Yea I noticed that myself when I saw that they had to send Pac-10 lesser seeds across the country too. LSU basically got screwed over because they only have three west coastish sites, but a good number of Pac-10 teams that can't be put in the same regionals. So someone had to go out West, and they decided it would be LSU as a 2 seed. (Why they couldn't find a way to send out West a 3 seed is beyond me though, at least tap a Big 12 two seed before you go to the SEC.)

They might need to get rid of that rule because of years like this when 3 conferences send so many teams. Doing right with the seeds and travel considerations is more important than having teams square off against conference rivals sooner rather than later.

This happens every year. Some really good teams get sent out west. Last year UVA and Georgia Southern, both as #2 seeds. UVA made the best of it and went to Omaha. Georgia Southern went home in two games. Year before Vandy got sent west as a #2 seed. Not unusual, given the usually relatively small number of west coast hosts and large number of teams to place from the SEC and ACC.

so Hawaii ends up the #3 seed in the Arizona State regional (FFFFFFUUUUUU)
IMO I think Arizona State is F'n awesome this year and we don't stand much chance, but I also do like our chances against the other 2 opponents though. It seems that regional has one team a class above the rest (AState) and then 3 meh teams that Hawaii could come out with a couple wins, but hey in baseball you never know. I mean look what Fresno State did two years ago :D

dola, in other news The Hawaii women are moving on in the Womens College WS as they upset #1 seed Alabama over the weekend!

double dola, Also the Hawaii Pacific University Lady Sea Warriors just won the Division two College WS!

Hawaii ownes.

Plz to be defeating Arizona State tia

I think its crazy that UNC got in without getting in to there conference tourney, lol.

I think its crazy that UNC got in without getting in to there conference tourney, lol.

It's not terribly unusual. Arkansas got in a few years ago without making the SEC tournament, in fact.

I just want to say that I love the format of the baseball tournament. Really looking forward to this years.

Hawaii women's softball team: Clutch.

Just got home with my ticket booklets for the Fayetteville Regional. Cox and Eibner are hitting the cover off the ball in BP and reports are that the team is really fired up to have them back. Going to bust out of this slump at exactly the right time again, I think!

IM FIRED UP.

Probably going to flood this thread with pictures from the regional this weekend so run for cover.

If you're looking to watch some of the games not being shown on ESPNU right now, you can try CBS College Sports.

CBS College Sports All-Access (http://all-access.cbssports.com/player.html?code=ncaa&media=181759)

Let me know if that link doesn't work. Coastal is scoreless with Stony Brook heading into the bottom of the 2nd.

1-0 Coastal heading to the 3rd.

About to head to the ballpark for games 1 and 2 of our regional. Get to see game 1 with my dad (this is Arkansas vs Grambling) since my wife can't make it because of work.

And its thundering here, so I imagine the game will be delayed soon enough.

Yep, not raining at the ballpark, but raining here with thunder and they have delayed the game.

Does Coastal play on campus, or at the MB Pelicans stadium?

Softball tournament has been entertaining so far. UCLA mercy ruled Florida, Washington and Arizona are both already in the losers bracket

Does Coastal play on campus, or at the MB Pelicans stadium?

They play at the MB Pelicans stadium, which is a better place to play than the Coastal's field, which is badly in need of renovation.

Rain has mostly stopped here, but looks like a line of storms have popped up to the south and west.

Softball tournament has been entertaining so far. UCLA mercy ruled Florida, Washington and Arizona are both already in the losers bracket

I'm looking forward to UH vs UCLA today, the UH women set an NCAA record with 156 home runs this season.

In the first game of the Austin regional, Louisiana-Lafayette took down Rice 1-0.

I keep missing the kids name, but, who is the kid with the 55 game hitting streak? I think he's in college.

I keep missing the kids name, but, who is the kid with the 55 game hitting streak? I think he's in college.

That'd be Garrett Wittels of Florida Int'l

FIU's Garrett Wittels pushes hitting streak to 55 with double - ESPN (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5252319)

That'd be Garrett Wittels of Florida Int'l

FIU's Garrett Wittels pushes hitting streak to 55 with double - ESPN (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5252319)

Thank you. Impressive stat: 55 games played and has a hit in every game.

If he breaks Robin Venturas record, does he get to get punched in the face by Nolan Ryan?

Stony Brook played well against Coastal, it was 1-0 through five or six, but finally pulled away to win 6-0. That's a big relief, the Coastal starter has not done well in post-season play last year and this year, so glad to see him get it together for this important game.

Next up either College of Charleston or NC State-I'm rooting for NC State I think given Coastal losing twice to CofC this year.

Arkansas plastered Grambling. 19-7 I think. Something like 9 homers for Arkansas. Wilkins hit one over the scoreboard. Longest HR I've ever seen. Eibner had 3 HRs, Wilkins, McCann, and Kuhn all had 2 HRs each.

Wow was Grambling's starter awful. His fastball was ok, but everything else looked to be about 40 mph.

I'm looking forward to UH vs UCLA today, the UH women set an NCAA record with 156 home runs this season.

That was an impressive HR for UCLA

Man UCI is one pesky team as usual, and LSU bullpen continues to struggle since the middle of the season. UCI up 9-8 top of the 9th and threatening to score more.

Is the game on TV?

Is the game on TV?

In Louisiana and surrounding states. Cox Sports TV televises most LSU baseball games. All regional games, even non-LSU, will be on here.

Meltdown for UCI

LSU wins 11-10 in the bottom of the 11th on a 2 out 2 RBI double. This team may not have any consistency on the mound, but they have shown a lot of heart so far this post season.

Unfortunately I did not get my wish as College of Charleston raced out to a 7-0 lead after 4 innings and then held on to beat NC State 9-6. CofC has never faced our #1 pitcher Anthony Meo who will get the call in this game, so there is some hope Coastal can break the losing streak against the Cougars.

Poor Kent State

GT gets a 10-0 win over Mercer featuring their first 9-inning complete game shutout since 2007. Jackets get Alabama tomorrow while Mercer faces Elon in the elimination game.

Minnesota beats Cal State Fullerton! :)

Hawaii beats San Diego yesterday and now plays in the winners bracket vs ASU today YAY!

hawaii still surging and have won 14 of their last 18!

hawaii still surging and have won 14 of their last 18!

They owe it all to us, we willed that walk off HR in extra's against New Mexico State!

Stony Brook pulled off one of the biggest wins in their history by taking out NC State 6-2 to stay alive in Coastal Carolina's regional. Coastal plays Charleston tonight weather permitting.

They owe it all to us, we willed that walk off HR in extra's against New Mexico State!

damn right, I expect a free shirt at the very least from the team :D

well so much for Coastal's ace pitcher-down to CofC 7-2 in the second inning. :(

Jackets beat Alabama, 5-2. Still have the regular Sunday starter to go tomorrow vs. the Alabama-Mercer winner. If that fails, then Charlie All-staff is set for Monday.

ASU is killing Hawaii right now 10-1 top of the 9th

Well the LSU fan base dominated in the stands this weekend in LA, but doesn't look like LSU has the horses to carry this regional on the field. UCLA up 5-0 late, LSU batters look completely lost up against a great pitching performance.

12-1 bottom of the 9th....looks like ASU is moving on sending Hawaii to face a hungry and upset San Diego. The Toreros won today 22-1 in the losers bracket after falling to Hawaii in game #1 4-3 yesterday.

12-1 bottom of the 9th....looks like ASU is moving on sending Hawaii to face a hungry and upset San Diego. The Toreros won today 22-1 in the losers bracket after falling to Hawaii in game #1 4-3 yesterday.

beat em once we can do it again.

Minnesota tied up New Mexico 3-3 in the top of the 7th and their pitcher has been really strong the last 4 innings. Hopefully they can pull it out to win their first 2.

And New Mexico takes back the lead 4-3 in bottom of 7.

Just home from all day at Baum Stadium. Arkansas beat Washington State 6-4. Great game. Arkansas way out-hit WSU, but WSU got a couple of homers to keep it very close. Got very uncomfortable in the bottom of the 8th when the lead was down to 5-4 with the bases loaded and nobody out. Jordan Pratt came in and closed it out preserving the one run lead and then worked through the bottom of the 9th for the win.

Looking ahead to tomorrow, K-State and WSU play again for the opportunity to try to beat Arkansas twice. Arkansas still has Mike Bolsinger ready for tomorrow night (he was our Friday starter earlier in the season and has had a couple of great outings recently). Very comfortable with our pitching situation. Should be able to close it out.

Minnesota ties it up off a balk.

UCLA played well vs LSU. Bauer was nearly unhittable until the 9th inning but UCLA holds on to win.

Minnesota and New Mexico go to extra innings.

Minnesota wins after they got 2 in the 10th and pitcher Scott Matyas stuck out the last 8 batters he faced. They're the only 4 seed to be 2-0 right now, really hoping they can take at least 1 of 2 from the winner of Cal State Fullerton and New Mexico.

Very disappointed in Coastal Carolina after they lost 16-6 to Charleston. Starting ace pitcher only last 2 2/3 innings, giving up 10 runs. Thankfully the relief pitchers weren't used in the first game, so hopefully will still have some arms left for the hopefully next two games. Should be able to get by Stony Brook again I hope to get their revenge against the Cougars-but its going to be a tough job to beat them twice now.

Top 10 attended games through first 2 rounds of the regionals:

Arkansas-Wash. St. 9016
Citadel - S. Carolina 7418
La-Lafayette-Texas 7140
Rice-Rider 6366
Grambling-Kansas St. 5375
Virginia-Ole Miss. 4801
Hawaii-Ariz. St. 4371
Coastal Car.- Coll of Charles 4306
Va. Tech-Bucknell 4302
Alabama-Ga. Tech 4157

2 of the top 5 are from the Fayetteville Regional, including the far and away #1 (and it sure looked like there were more than 10k there last night) and a game not even involving the host team (it was the 3-4 elimination game).

Coastal cruising in the elimination game against Stony Brook, leading 12-2 in the 6th. Giving the bullpen a needed break after yesterday's late night rain delayed game.

Coastal is beating Stony Brook 25-6 in the 9th...I think they may win. I hope they still have some hits in those bats tonight at CofC

I think they may win.

Stranger things have happened.

Hawaii leads San Diego in the fifth 3-1.

Canes get two chances to advance. First chance is looking good as they lead TAMU 3-0 int he 3rd.

Hawaii up 4-1 now.

Do you think Hawaii has a shot against ASU if they win this game, given how they lost 12-1 the other day?

Alabama moves on. It was a close game (5-3, tying runners on in the 9th), but not nearly enough hitting by Mercer to tire out the Bama staff.

Do you think Hawaii has a shot against ASU if they win this game, given how they lost 12-1 the other day?

I doubt it, but stranger things have happened I guess. I'm just happy the team got hot at the right time of the year, but winning twice against ASU is a tall mountain to climb.

dola, unfortunately it looks like San Diego has the bases loaded with no outs in the 6th :(

game now tied San Diego 4 Hawaii 4

F^#$ San Diego scored 5 in the 6th, and lead 6-4 now

this is a crazy game, wtf is going on. Hawaii now has loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the 6th.

Hawaii gets a run on a wild pitch followed by a walk, bases still loaded and still no outs.

Hawaii gets a run on a wild pitch 6-5 San diego bases still loaded and still no outs.

Don't burn too much pitching winning this. Need you to take 2 from A-State so you can come to Fayetteville next week please and thank you.

It can get ugly when teams get deep into their pitching staff. Final score today in an elimination game: St. John's beat Ole Miss 20-16

TAMU tied it, but Miami hit two HR's to take a 5-3 lead in the 5th.

TAMU is going to have a rough time. Miami's best relievers are all rested. TAMU had to use their best closer to stay alive earlier in the day.

woot! Back 2 Back singles scores 2 more for Hawaii its now a 7-6 game Hawaii leads with no outs and runners on 1st and second.

8-6 Hawaii going to inning number 7.

Ugh. TAMU takes a 6-5 lead.

Home run followed by a single, Hawaii still hitting well, up 9-6 with 14 hits bottom 7 no outs.

Bam 3 run homer for frietas, Hawaii up 12-6. They may win this game yet.

Miami meltdown in the 6th and TAMU took an 11-5 lead. Miami gets one back in the bottom. Looks like TAMU might be bringing in their closer who pitched 2.2 innings earlier today.

GT trails 'Bama 7-1 in the 3rd inning as the Tide try to force a deciding second game.

Coastal and Charleston are tied 2-2 in the middle of the fifth

hawaii wins 12-9, San Diego is eliminated. Hawaii now must win twice vs ASU :(

first game is tonite at 9 EST. If UH wins 2nd game is tomorrow.

Coastal takes the lead 3-2 heading into the sixth, could have been more, got the bases loaded with 2 outs but then couldn't drive in any more runs.

*sigh* tied 3-3.

*bigger sigh* 5-3 Charleston middle of the 7th.

Coastal roars back with 3 runs in the 7th to take the lead again 6-5.

Unbelievable, the Chants just cannot hold on to a lead in this game, now down 7-6. :(

And the Chants are down to their last 3 outs...

Arizona State leads hawaii 3-2 in the 3rd.

OMG, Chants get a man on base, next guy hits a HR, see you on Monday Charleston!

OMG, Chants get a man on base, next guy hits a HR, see you on Monday Charleston!

LOL nice!

hawaii just got 2 run shot also! 4-3 Hawaii in the 4th :D

Just back from Baum Stadium. Washington State capitalized on a world record 7,582,188 fielding errors to win 10-7 and force a deciding game tomorrow.

Sigh.

I seriously think they could've just bunted every bat and the game would still be going on in the top of the 1st.

Unfortunately ASU toppled Hawaii 8-4, thus ending Hawaii's season, great great run at the end but not enough, good solid team though, and thats two years of very very good baseball by University of Hawaii. Good job boys :)

Fullerton continued to roll from their win over New Mexico earlier in the day, Minnesota will have to beat them Monday to get to move on to UCLA.

Sorry about Hawaii losing there K0ruptr, would have been fun to see them move on. Now you can help me root for Coastal Carolina :)

Texas bounced back nicely from their disaster in the Big 12 Championships to sweep their regional. Next up is a best 2 out of 3 against a tough TCU squad.

Coastal and Charleston are at it again. Coastal takes the lead 2-0 in the first, Charleston immediately ties it. Coastal scores 2 in the 3rd, Charleston scores at least 3 in the third with 1 out and men on 1st and third.

Charleston adds one more run to make it 6-4 heading into the fourth. Charleston has changed pitchers now and a freshman who's not pitched in the regionals yet is now playing. Coastal has also changed pitchers to their #1 starter who pitched so badly in the first game against Charleston.

Ugh Coastal just got robbed of a HR by a great jump and catch by the Charleston OF'er

Well the freshman had Coastal fooled for a couple innings before faltering, gave up a couple walks and a perfect bunt with no outs led to bases loaded...and then a grand slam!

Coastal can't manage to score any more runs despite no outs, and will now have to hold on again against a Charleston comeback. Coastal leads 8-6

*sigh* they just cannot hold on to a lead. 2 run-HR Charleston with no outs, tied up again

Well here we go again, Coastal scores two in the top of the eighth to take the lead again. Worrisome that unlike yesterday's game, Charleston will have the last at-bats.

Yep you guessed it, we go to the ninth tied at ten. Coastal's #2 starter is now pitching-he went the full 9 innings in game 1.

Watching your game on cbssports.com. Bit of a slug-fest.

Our game tonight is at 7. Wife has a meeting that ends at 8, so we are going but just for the second half or so of the game. We played a pretty terrible game last night and were still right in it. Comparing our pitching staff situation to WSU's gives me quite a bit of comfort. Plus realizing that Cox and Eibner should be back in the lineup. That's great by itself, but the true key is that it allows us to have everyone playing at their primary position. Having those 2 out of the lineup means we have to move half the team around to secondary positions. Last night, this bit us square in the ass with about a brazillion errors.

ugh a passed ball and a wild pitch leads to a guy on 1st and 3rd with two outs for Charleston...

And then a strikeout/wild pitch where the catcher couldn't find the ball leads to the bases loaded.

Wow at that play.

OMG an unbelievable play to end the inning, hit off the pitchers glove to the third baseman, and threw the guy out at first in a very close play. The Charleston coach went after the ump, and a policeman had to restrain him. He got thrown out-the third Charleston guy to be thrown out in this regional. Just a crazy, crazy game.

Coastal PBP guy just said that was the 3rd CoC person ejected in this series.

Their coach just got ejected for arguing a call that went against them that would've won the game. He was being restrained by a policeman and threw his arm away from him.

LOL of course a wild pitch and the Chants score the go-ahead run

Charleston down to last out with men on 1st and second after a long fly to CF where Charleston did not tag up and go to third...

Congrats.

STRIKEOUT! And finally the Chants finish off the Cougars. God I'm exhausted.

Thanks! That has to be the wildest game I've ever seen

Thanks! That has to be the wildest game I've ever seen

WOOHOO! at least you guys move on, wow crazy games this series had!

#7 Louisville is the first national seed to fall, losing to Vandy 3-2.
Earlier #5 UVA advanced with a 5-2 win over St. John's

Miami up 3-2 on TAMU in the 2nd inning, but rain has been problematic and they are currently on delay.

TAMU is in even worse pitching shape than yesterday, so I'm sure they'd love this one to be called off.

Another post-season, another GT flop.
'Bama wins 10-8 with 6 innings of two-run relief

Third straight year that Tech has been eliminated while hosting a regional.
Hopefully we can at least afford to get rid of Danny fucking Hall, sorry sonofabitch can't manage once the weather starts to get hot.

Clemson has eliminated regional host Auburn 13-7, so it'll be Clemson vs 'Bama in the superregional.

Fire Danny Hall!

Miami-TAMU game delayed until tomorrow at noon.

Fire Jim Morris!

Awesome game 1 in the CSWS game. UCLA hits the go-ahead HR in the bottom of the 6th inning, Arizona takes the lead in top of the 7th inning, and then UCLA ties it up in the bottom of the 6th on two errors and a double. Bottom of the 8th inning, UCLA's star player hits a 2 out walkoff HR

Woot. Arkansas handles WSU very easily tonight, 7-2. On to Tempe to play Arizona State in the Super Regional. Going to be tough, but we can do it. We took 2 of 2 from the in a mid-week last season at Baum. It's a Sat-Mon SR so our staff can be rested for game 1.

Minnesota didn't have the bats to keep up with Fullerton, putting an end to what had been a fun run over the last few weeks. With a team that got much better as the season went on and brings most of its players back next year hopefully the can do something next year.

Bump for Super-Regionals.


Vanderbilt down 6-0 early to FSU, back to 6-5 now top 6th.

Coastal/South Carolina starts tomorrow at Coastal. Very interesting series. Coastal started out as part of the University of South Carolina system and broke away in the mid 1990's in fairly ugly fashion. Politics and the apparant mutual dislike between the baseball coaches of the two teams have prevented the schools from playing each other in any sport until recently when some of the smaller sports teams played each other. No baseball games since 2004.

And now South Carolina is all up at arms about how Coastal handled ticket sales for the regional, which is the same exact way Carolina would have handled them. So it should be a pretty intense and exciting regional (with Coastal hopefully winning)

FSU beats Vandy 9-8 with a walk-off homer.

TCU beats Texas 3-1 in the first game of the Super Regional. That TCU pitcher was the real deal, getting 11 Ks.

Along with being pretty hilarious looking.

How to blow a rally, by UCLA

who cares about all this World Cup crap? The big game of the day is Coastal vs South Carolina at noon EST on ESPNU. Be there or be square. ;)

will be dual-screening

uh oh

I'm surprised he's still in the game, that looked pretty bad on the replays-that would have been a horrible start for Coastal-pitcher gone on the first play of the game

Coastal hanging tough after being down 4-0 early, but only getting one run with the bases loaded twice is not going to get it done. 4-3 Carolina in the 7th.

Coastal hanging tough after being down 4-0 early, but only getting one run with the bases loaded twice is not going to get it done. 4-3 Carolina in the 7th.

Make that three times, this time with no outs, relief pitcher comes in gets 2 K's and a ball batted back to him. *sigh*

heading into the bottom of the ninth, Coastal still down 4-3-everybody put your rally caps on!

Coastal got men on 1st and 2nd with 2 outs and just could not get any runs in. :( Sadly they deserved to lose after their bullpen kept them in the game after being down 4-0 after 2.

Texas laid the smackdown on TCU today, 14-1. Hopefully they didn't use everything up, and left some gas in the tank for the deciding game tomorrow.