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72heel

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in the supers was the most difficult? So Cal sure surprised me with their pitching as it just about equaled ours. I haven't seen another team in the brackets with that much mound presence, although I have seen a LOT of offensive power from others.
 
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PonsterM

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72heel said:
in the supers was the most difficult? So Cal sure surprised me with their pitching as it just about equaled ours. I haven't seen another team in the brackets with that much mound presence, although I have seen a LOT of offensive power from others.
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Yes. USC was Omaha worthy. The fact that the series went three games and came down to literally the last play tells you everything you need to know. USC is a little too reliant on the top end of their lineup for hitting, and they need a little more help in the bullpen, but they could have done a lot of damage in Omaha imo.

I'll put it this way. I went to all three games this weekend, and it wasn't just the 95° weather that was making me sweat.
 
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mpaer said:
What I care about now is our Omaha bracket
All I can say is I am grateful for our side of the bracket-very grateful
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Agreed. We were fortunate to not face our #2 seed in the regional at all, but USC was an extremely tough matchup, regardless of what the seedings said, with that pitching staff in a short series combined with hot hitting. They had a stellar record for a reason.

But now that we are in Omaha, it sets up really well for us to get to the finals. Of course we could just go 0-2 and go home since it's baseball, but avoiding all of the national seeds on our side except #16 WVU is huge. And the other side of the bracket is pretty loaded with a bunch of teams that can mash the ball. Let them beat themselves up on that side and hope our pitching can be a strength again in a regional format on our side.
 
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bluebooksandbluecups

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USC put up one heck of a fight. We were close to recording two rather easy wins and winning the Super 2-0 though. What our starting out co big did to the Trojan bats was phenomenal.

Lynch - 5.2 IP, 4 ER (2 charged to him on the McDuffie grand slam) 6 H, 7 K, 0 BB

DeCaro - 9.0 IP, 0 ER (nobody reached second base), 2 H, 8 K, 1 BB

Glauber - 7.1 IP, 3 ER (one on a ball), 6 H, 11 K, 1 BB (intentional)

Just great starting pitching all three games for us.
 
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wsdog

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Sorry for bringing the conversation down to conspiracy theories, but I keep hearing that Auburn AD John Cohen is as shady as they come. There were some suspicious placements when he was head of the tourney committee and, even having rolled off of his term, still seemed to have a finger in it with his cronies.

That to say, Auburn being put ahead of us into a weak regional, and then subsequently opposite a weaker 1-seed for Supers set them up for a nice path to Omaha. Being overseeded themselves (IMO), they lost, and now that path is ours.

No bracket should be overlooked, but some certainly look better than others.
 
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unc80

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We were obviously very fortunate to win the Super. USC is really good. Ultimately, our pitching and defense overcame their pitching and defense. Both stellar. And of course, Bosh Magic. We need to somehow get that stuff on the plane with us to Omaha. It's real.
 
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UNCHeels08

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Ole Miss is playing really well right now (as is pretty much everyone who gets to Omaha), and have a couple highly rated (MLB draft) starting pitchers in Rabe and Townsend.

However, those have been the Sat/Sun starters for Ole Miss, with lefty Hunter Elliott as their Friday starter despite decidedly worse numbers this year (he was great in 2025 though). I personally hope they keep with what they've done in the regionals/supers and start Elliott first rather than Rabe, but we'll see.
 
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scared

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TBH, I think we're blowing smoke up USC's skirt a little bit. I think they're a solid team, a high 2 at the end of the day...with A/A- pitching talent but a relatively weak lineup that delivered 1.5 big innings. And that's where they were seeded. I'm very pleased we got USC as opposed to the bats a Mississippi St would've rolled in, for example.

I also think that 1 big inning knocked us off our game and had us pressing for damn near 3 days. Their pitching certainly had something to do with it. They attacked early, threw strikes for the most part. But it just felt like we got away from working counts, trusting ourselves and playing Carolina ball IMHO. We were a tick early on the off-speed stuff all weekend and to their credit they kept us guessing.
 
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Unc1999

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I agree with above. They were a solid team, but a team we should have handled much more easily. We were 3 of 24 or something with RISP.

I get we easily could be sitting at home for the CWS. But 1 pitch and swing also made this a 3 game series. Had we left the 6th up 5-2 in game 1 - we sweep them and I think we’d be talking about how they were the #4 team in an average conference that went 1-9 vs the top 3 teams in the B10.
 
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NoHighHeels

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JimmyDaHeel said:
How about DeCaro's response to being replaced by Lynch!?

Talk about rising to the occasion!
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I wouldn't say he was replaced. I'd say we saved the ace for game 2 in the regionals.

And both had to pitch this weekend. Both are good, so it didn't really matter which went game 1 or 2. Better to just keep everyone on the same rest.

The bigger question will be who throws first in Omaha. Do they keep the same rest or move Decaro back to the first game.
 
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Malachidad05

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I mean TBH everyone is correct on here. USC was a decent team. They benefitted from one pitch where their guy made a play and hit a grand slam. After that our momentum was gone and that game was over. That dude was hitting like .240 or something a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while.
The mindset that our team has will allow us to keep playing baseball for a long time.
The only team that slightly scares me in Omaha is Texas.
 
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unctarheel1984

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Combining at the box scores for all three games it appears:
UNC went 3-26 RISP with 30 LOB
USC went 3-19 RISP with 12 LOB

We could look at it like neither team did a great job batting with RISP or we could look at it like both teams had excellent pitching and defense that consistently got them out of jams.
 
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lakelawyerheel

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So, when the brackets came out everyone with a brain said "if UNC makes it to Omaha....they will have earned it." And we did. Forget about Tennessee getting bounced....ECU is as tough a match-up for a regional as we can face just because of how bad they want to beat us.

And that USC team that left Chapel Hill yesterday with their season over is a damn good baseball team.

Our side of the bracket in Omaha is as good as we could possibly hope for and honestly, maybe the best one we've ever gotten in all of our trips there. So maybe the baseball deities gave us a little good karma bump. But we still have to win game 1....and all the rest. IF this is the year that everything happens, this team EARNED it, continues to EARN it, and DESERVES it.
 
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RogerThatHeel

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oldwell said:
We played a very good team that was hot. USC was top 10 in the RPI.

I feel like there were other equally as competitive matchups in the supers though.

WVU got the cakewalk.
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WVU was handed to Omaha. I know you still have to win the games, but it couldn’t have been any easier for them. We’ll see how those country roads look in Omaha.
 
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I would be worried about Ole Miss before I would think of Ga or Texas. Two projected first round MLB draft starters and on a late season Hot streak.
 
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Malachidad05

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premn said:
Are we the only team that didn’t get this far by hitting a crap ton of HRs?
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I think so, but honestly that’s what makes our offense even more deadly IMO. We can string hits and walks together and put more pressure on pitchers. As we saw with Globe yesterday solo HR don’t hurt you much.
 
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I like the fact that we had to win the supers the way we did. Was unconventional and went against the grain of what we've done during the season in some respects. That kind of grit and the way we play ball will only help in Omaha.
 
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drowsy

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Tarheeldoc20 said:
I would be worried about Ole Miss before I would think of Ga or Texas. Two projected first round MLB draft starters and on a late season Hot streak.
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Heck, OU may be playing the best ball of anyone. Getting Ole Miss isn't the worst of SEC matchups imo.
 
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premn

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Yeah it’s annoying our offense hasn’t been particularly good but it means there’s a lot of room for improvement even if we revert back to season average
 
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Pogo_ka

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lakelawyerheel said:
So, when the brackets came out everyone with a brain said "if UNC makes it to Omaha....they will have earned it." And we did. Forget about Tennessee getting bounced....ECU is as tough a match-up for a regional as we can face just because of how bad they want to beat us.

And that USC team that left Chapel Hill yesterday with their season over is a damn good baseball team.

Our side of the bracket in Omaha is as good as we could possibly hope for and honestly, maybe the best one we've ever gotten in all of our trips there. So maybe the baseball deities gave us a little good karma bump. But we still have to win game 1....and all the rest. IF this is the year that everything happens, this team EARNED it, continues to EARN it, and DESERVES it.
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