Should the CWS be all SEC?
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Based on merit and all, maybe so. But I don't think this is good for the game. Consolidation of power is never good.
Well they set it up to have Auburn & Florida in one bracket and Georgia, Texas & Alabama in the other. Then they matched one of the 9-16 SEC seeds with an SEC regional and one with a non-SEC regional. Don’t know what else they could do to try to not have it turn out the way it did. Upsets happen.
Of the three non-SEC teams....Florida should have come out of the Troy bracket, TAMU or Tenneseee out of the UNC bracket, and well you can't blame Kentucky for not winning the WVU bracket that should have been UCLA.
I don’t understand the question. There were SEC teams that were eliminated by non-SEC teams, so no. Also, when you have a 16 team league, it becomes harder to avoid intra-league super matchups.
Only four of the sixteen regionals did not have an SEC team in it. Three of the teams that came out of those four regionals were exceptionally weak, Cal Poly, St Johns, Little Rock. Oregon was the only exception. The ACC had a putrid showing. Three host site, nine teams in. Only one team made advanced out of the regional round.
If the tournament was chalk all the way through, there would be five SEC teams in the CWS, as five of the top eight national seeds were SEC. Three of those teams (Georgia, Texas, Alabama) made the CWS, joined by unseeded Ole Miss and Oklahoma. So all the upsets didn't change how many SEC teams are in the CWS based on what would've happened if there were no upsets at all.
Auburn and State were eliminated by SEC teams. Both may have made the CWS if they had played in other Super Regionals.
But Auburn was only beaten by an SEC team because Ole Miss pulled an upset and won a road regional. They were the 2 seed in the Nebraska regional. If the seeds had held, Auburn would've been hosting Nebraska. The only SEC vs SEC super regional that was set up by seeding was State vs Georgia.
That doesn't matter. Auburn was eliminated by an SEC team. 5 SEC teams made the CWS and 2 were eliminated by another SEC team. State or Auburn would have won at Troy easily, probably would have won at WVU, and 50/50 at North Carolina.
I think you should avoid matching up 1 seeds from the same conference in supers if possible, but the only way it was possible this year was to match us up against Georgia Tech, as A&M was lined up against UNC. I think that probably was the right way. UGA probably should have been #2 ahead of Ga Tech. But I'm not sure they really went out of their way to eliminate SEC teams this year. Ga Tech had a good resume against weaker competition. Hard to draw the line between Ga Tech and UGA without just explicitly saying the SEC team gets the benefit of the doubt, which is not unreasonable but I get why they don't take that route.
Hell, no! We need to give somebody else a chance, even though they will fumble it the ball.
Who think Troy is going to scrub West Virginia?
Who think Troy is going to scrub West Virginia?
I hope WVU is as good as their record and seeding say they are. I need someone as a fallback to beat UMiss if UNC doesn't. And it won't be Troy.
I feel like we all should be pulling for UNC… because I think wvu and Troy are going to get bounced quick. Hope I’m wrong
WVU is the wild card. We know UNC is good. We know Troy is in way over their heads. We don’t know how good WVU is. They won the Big 12, but it was a pretty down year for the big 12. They may be pretty good. Or they may not be.
Troy beat Florida, Florida should have been there.
Big 10 should never get a host spot, nor should have southern and sun belt.
Big 10 should never get a host spot, nor should have southern and sun belt.