Interesting re: our baseball team.

[patdog]

Despite the poor record, our RPI is #30 after this weekend. And Boyd predicts that if we can go 14-15 the rest of the season we would finish with a top 32 RPI. So it looks like any winning record at all would get us some serious consideration for an NCAA bid. We've got to do some serious improving over the rest of the season to get there though. We're nowhere near the 30th best team in the country right now (Boyd's ISR ranks us #63, which is probably a lot closer to the truth).

 

[Goat Dawg]

nm

 

[Shmuley]

nm

 

[KurtRambis4]

is currently ranked 23 (ESPN/USA Toda) and 22 (CB) with an RPI of 27.

 

[8dog]

so those losses are no worse than losses to South Carolina and UCLA.

UCLA is currently #2 and is 26-1. wow.

 

[patdog]

they've played a very tough schedule. If you look at Boyd's ISR rankings, The gap between Arizona St. (who is also having an unbelievable start against a tough schedule) and UCLA and the #3 team is as big as the gap between the #3 team and the #32 team.

 

[Todd4State]

I think we get in. Problem is, I don't know if we can get 30. 29 might be enough.

What we have to do is win two more SEC series (UT? AU?) and NOT get swept. That would give us 12 SEC wins. If we can win the rest of our home non-conference games at home against USA and Northwestern LA and the SWAC schools and then split the season series with USM, we could do it.


One thing we have have in our favor is that four of our last seven SEC series are in Starkville where we play much better.

 

[Todd4State]

in the sense that it's hurting us from getting 30 wins.