Finally getting the respect the teams deserves after winning the B1G..
Maryland is 25th after winning 2 of 3 from Michigan...
Maryland is 25th after winning 2 of 3 from Michigan...
D1Baseball Ranks NU 20th
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So is Dave Van Horne just that great of a college baseball coach?
I tend to give very little credit to baseball coaches because of how little they impact the game once the game has started but he just seems to be freaking amazing.
I tend to give very little credit to baseball coaches because of how little they impact the game once the game has started but he just seems to be freaking amazing.
Congratulations Huskers!. I can understand their reluctancy though. We didn't do ourselves any favors the last time we got ranked by our performance against Rutgers. This team seems hungry and as Lou Brown said it's all coming together.
It's possible that, with a sweep of Michigan, Nebraska could earn a No. 1 seed (top 16 teams get regional No. 1 seeds) even though we'd have to travel.
There are currently 20 potential sites for regional tournaments:
TLDR version: This weekend's series is important in whom Nebraska will face in the regionals.
There are currently 20 potential sites for regional tournaments:
- Fayetteville (Arkansas ranked No. 1)
- Austin (Texas No. 2)
- Nashville (Vanderbilt No. 3)
- Knoxville (Tennessee No. 4)
- Lubbock (Texas Tech No. 5)
- Tucson (Arizona ranked No. 6)
- South Bend (Notre Dame No. 7)
- Starkpatch (Mississippi State No. 8)
- Palo Alto (Stanford No. 9)
- Eugene (Oregon No. 10)
- East Carolina (ECU No. 11)
- Oxford (Mississippi No. 12)
- Gainesville (Florida No. 13)
- Spokane (Gonzaga No. 14)
- Fort Worth (TCU No. 15)
- Ruston, La. (La. Tech No. 18)
- Hattiesburg (Southern Miss No. 19)
- Charlotte (Charlotte ranked No. 22, behind Nebraska)
- Pittsburgh (Pitt unranked and on a six-game losing streak)
- Columbia (So. Carolina unranked)
TLDR version: This weekend's series is important in whom Nebraska will face in the regionals.
He deserves a National Title and this year’s team is very capable of giving it too him..
Crossing my fingers were not 2 seed in Fayetteville..
I don't feel like Erstad was ever made for college baseball. MLB would suit him better in my opinion.
Agree some. Talent means alot in Baseball. You don't have the stud pitchers and 2 or 3 studs who can change the game with one swing it doesn't matter who the hell the coach is coaching the team. Only get so much out of average baseball players. Most always the talent wins in baseball
Nebraska RPI is like 47 I think. I would be hugely surprised if they are a #1 seed. 7 of their 11 losses are to teams with RPI over 100. They have played zero Q1 teams. There are just too many other teams with better resumes than what Nebraska puts out there.
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How and the world can they justify RPI when only playing against each other in conference play.
Biggest joke there is...
The Fairfield Stags are No. 2 nationally in RPI, so I wouldn't put a lot of emphasis on what an RPI is in determining a seed.
In addition to Nebraska's No. 47 RPI, Maryland is No. 65 and Michigan is No. 99, but all are being projected into the tournament.
I agree with your point that it's a long-shot for Nebraska to be a No. 1 seed, but we're closer to a 1 than a 3 at this point, and this weekend against Michigan will determine if our road to a Super Regional is difficult or improbable.
Before last weekend's 4-0 against top-half Big Ten teams, Baseball America projected Nebraska as the No. 2 seed in the Tucson regional against No. 4 Arizona, or technically the 29th seed. Surely we've improved our lot since then, and can again versus Michigan.
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Well every other conference outside of the MAAC, (Fairfield), is playing out of conference schedules. How can they justify any Big Ten team is any good when they only play each other?
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Fairfield is much like Nebraska in that their league is not playing OOC games either, so all of their RPI is based on their 35-1 record.
In baseball, it doesn't really matter after the first 16 anyway. So much of the pairings after that are based on location, travel expense and dividing conference that have 8 and 9 bids so they don't play each other. There really isn't a 1-64 seeding, it is a 1-16 and fill it the blanks.
Good point. Bottom line: Nebraska would be a projected No. 1 seed if we'd swept Rutgers at home instead of getting swept. We hurt ourselves.
Granted Warren idiotic move to not play mid week games hurt the conference.. Nebraska could easily had 8-10 wins in of which would have been against Creighton and I don’t remember who else Bolt scheduled as another high caliber team but the RPI had no idea what teams were ranked when the season started..Where do they start from at the very beginning?This goes for basketball too
RPI is simply a calculation that factors in winning pct 25%/ opponents winning pct 50%/ opponents opponents winning pct 25%. Then there bonus points for Q1 wins and penalties of Q4 losses. Typically the first RPI doesn't come out until the end of March after a large number of non conference and even some conference games are played.
There is no preseason RPI
midweek games are just a small portion of the idiocy. The preseason tournaments is where you can play 15-20 games in 3 weeks, get some wins and play top teams. That is where your RPI is built, not the 7 or 8 midweek games against local teams.
Nebraska is likely locked in as a mid-to-high #2 seed, but I wouldn't count on that keeping them out of Fayetteville. As already suggested, it's a big crap shoot after the top 16.
I'm not saying NU will get stuck going to Arkansas, I just don't think the Michigan series will decide that one way or the other.
Well of course obviously
but the Big 10 started later than the rest of other conferences this Covid season and weren’t allowing any teams to play in tournaments because they decided to play conference only...Latest D1Baseball projections have us as the No. 2 seed in the Lubbock regional, with overall No. 8 seed Texas Tech as the top seed. I know this isn't exact because regionals in baseball are often geographic, it is the equivalent of being the 25th-ranked team.
Michigan is a No. 2 seed in South Bend (Notre Dame overall the No. 6), while Maryland is a No. 3 seed in Nashville against overall top seed Vanderbilt. Indiana is a No. 3 seed in Eugene, with overall No. 12 Oregon as the top seed.
Let me check one more thing — yes, just as I suspected. Iowa sucks.
Michigan is a No. 2 seed in South Bend (Notre Dame overall the No. 6), while Maryland is a No. 3 seed in Nashville against overall top seed Vanderbilt. Indiana is a No. 3 seed in Eugene, with overall No. 12 Oregon as the top seed.
Let me check one more thing — yes, just as I suspected. Iowa sucks.
That could change too TCU for some reason isn’t in the top 10 despite tying the whorns for 1st place.
remind us again - who's responsible for compiling those responsible for compiling the talent?
DVH is a college baseball legend. tons of success everywhere he's been.