Interesting from the SEC tournament

[patdog]

The top 4 seeds are 3-5, while #5-#7 are 8-1. Is this because:
1 - The top 4 have nothing to play for and are coasting,
2 - There's pretty much no difference in the top 7, or
3 - A statistical oddity from a small sample size.

I'd say a little of all 3, but in order I'd go with #3, #2, #1.

 

[HardyStreetAlumniClub]

Just happens that Ole Miss and LSU are playing their best baseball of the season at this time. LSU always plays their best baseball at the end of the season.

 

[Tin Cup Cowboy]

I think I'd lean a little more towards #2, #3, #1.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

It's probably about the same in all the categories. The importance of the baseball tournament is small compared to, say, the basketball tournament. We've also got our national seed while LSU and UM are fighting for theirs.

Interesting fact: LSU is the only SEC team to win both the SECT and the CWS in the same year (1993*, 2000, 2009).

 

[Lawdawg.sixpack]

4 - That's baseball.

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[KurtRambis4]

Last night,

it was pretty obvious to me that neither the players nor the coaches were too interested in the game. Moonshot pitching was the main evidence.

 

[notoriousD_O_G]

it was pretty obvious to me that neither the players nor the coaches were too interested in the game. Moonshot pitching was the main evidence.

Tatum on the mound might as well be a white flag

 

[MSUDC11]

Last night was not an important game, and we played like it wasn't an important game.

Tonight is probably the end of our stay in Hoover, especially if Shore is pitching. Get Sexton his 5 or 6 innings or 100 pitches max, get an inning from Rigby and/or Humphreys just so they won't be rusty next weekend, and then let someone like Cyr, Breaux, or James get some work in. I hope that's the plan whether we are winning or losing.

I don't see a ton of difference between the Top 7. I think A&M is the best overall team, and I would probably put us second with Florida very close behind. But the next group of teams are all good enough to make deep runs in the next month.

LSU is a young and talented team, and the arc of their season shows that. Started of slow, but gradually got better and better and now they're playing extremely well.

Ole Miss has had solid pitching all year, they just needed the bats to wake up. If the middle of their order is going to hit like this the rest of the way, they'll probably get to Omaha.

 

[rem101]

We were only #1 becuase of #7 - obviously they are the better team.

fattenburgered

 

[Philly Dawg]

USC is always garbage at the SEC Tournament and they have done really well in NCAA's.

 

[Hoover Dawg]

Our fans (specifically you patdog) go overboard in a vain attempt to be seen as objective or reasonable (reasonable, in the world's eyes for an MSU fan, is to be defeatist no matter what). Any rational minded person can tell that Florida, Texas A&M, Mississippi State and MAYBE South Carolina are a notch above everyone else. Those teams were good enough to earn national seeds. However, South Carolina slacked late, and LSU, Vanderbilt and Ole Miss MAY be playing for a national seed now due to the way things shook out, but I think one of those will have to win the whole tournament to get one. And due to that, they are playing harder. It's not rocket science and no, the top 7 are not equal.