NCAA preliminary site list (Ruston, Charlotte, Hattiesburg included)

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The for sure list...

Arizona	Oregon
Arkansas
	South Carolina
Florida	Stanford
	TCU
	Tennessee
Mississippi State	Texas
Notre Dame	Texas Tech
Ole Miss	Vanderbilt

Who will the other 2 be?

Ole Miss lost one of its weekend starting pitchers for the season this week and closes with Vanderbilt at home this weekend and at Georgia next week. The Rebels likely have some work to do to get a #1 seed.

And South Carolina definitely has big time work to do being at 12-12 in the SEC. At Kentucky this week and home vs Tennessee next week. The Gamecocks really need a minimum of 3 wins from those six plus at least a couple of wins in Hoover to stay in hosting contention.

Ultimately I think the SEC gets 5 host sites for sure and maybe 6, but not all 7.

The C-USA Tournament winner should be a lock to host if that is Tech, USM, or Charlotte. And a second C-USA host could happen if that team makes the championship game. The third team is probably off the list.

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INDIANAPOLIS – Louisiana Tech's baseball program has been named as one of the 20 possible programs to host a postseason NCAA Regional. LA Tech, along with three other C-USA programs, was announced among the 20 predetermined preliminary-round sites for this year's Division I Baseball Championship.

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Ole Miss lost one of its weekend starting pitchers for the season this week and closes with Vanderbilt at home this weekend and at Georgia next week. The Rebels likely have some work to do to get a #1 seed.

And South Carolina definitely has big time work to do being at 12-12 in the SEC. At Kentucky this week and home vs Tennessee next week. The Gamecocks really need a minimum of 3 wins from those six plus at least a couple of wins in Hoover to stay in hosting contention.

Ultimately I think the SEC gets 5 host sites for sure and maybe 6, but not all 7.

The C-USA Tournament winner should be a lock to host if that is Tech, USM, or Charlotte. And a second C-USA host could happen if that team makes the championship game. The third team is probably off the list.

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Not keeping up with the SEC much. I had heard about the Ole Miss pitcher. I figured with all those listed they were all on the VERY probable list. I think all the western teams with the possible exception of Gonzaga will get to host.

Gonzaga is a half-game ahead of San Diego in the WCC, and there is no tournament. The Zags close at Portland and home vs San Francisco, and those are the #4 and #3 teams in the WCC standings.

Can't see Gonzaga getting a host site unless it wins the conference. San Diego almost certainly has to win the conference to even get in with a 76 RPI.

That’s exciting news! You have to think CUSA gets 2 hosting sites, but not 3. Assuming we take at least 3 of 4 this weekend and sweep ODU, we still have to do well in the tournament. That’s a tall order, but still exciting to think about.

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Originally Posted by SicemDawgz

That’s exciting news! You have to think CUSA gets 2 hosting sites, but not 3. Assuming we take at least 3 of 4 this weekend and sweep ODU, we still have to do well in the tournament. That’s a tall order, but still exciting to think about.

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If Charlotte and Tech are in opposite pools and that is the championship game matchup, both teams could be hosting.

Charlotte just took a big step to clinching the #1 seed by winning 9-6 at Rice.

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Originally Posted by PawDawg

Not keeping up with the SEC much.

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I never understood those that did.

Isn’t it crazy that the day word comes out about Tech’s opportunity to maybe host in the NCAAs is the day Tech plays like they absolutely don’t want to host. Tech is elite at not capitalizing on their opportunities. Pretty much any other institution team would play up to the opportunity, but not Tech. Instead, we wilt in spotlight of accomplishment.

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Isn’t it crazy that the day word comes out about Tech’s opportunity to maybe host in the NCAAs is the day Tech plays like they absolutely don’t want to host. Tech is elite at not capitalizing on their opportunities. Pretty much any other institution team would play up to the opportunity, but not Tech. Instead, we wilt in spotlight of accomplishment.

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Did you expect anything different?

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Originally Posted by Bone_afide_Dawg

Isn’t it crazy that the day word comes out about Tech’s opportunity to maybe host in the NCAAs is the day Tech plays like they absolutely don’t want to host. Tech is elite at not capitalizing on their opportunities. Pretty much any other institution team would play up to the opportunity, but not Tech. Instead, we wilt in spotlight of accomplishment.

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When they announced we were in the 20, it was like hearing “Orange Bowl committee members will be in attendance for tonight’s game.” You just know something bad is going to happen.

We should sequester all our teams from day 1 of the season. Don’t let them see anything but school work and scouting reports. No rankings, no articles, no interviews.

Got to think Charlotte proposing a site off campus might hurt their bid.

Committee has to be kicking themselves for putting Pitt on the list and leaving off both Florida State and Louisville. Panthers have celebrated being on the list by losing two at home to North Carolina State.
Problem is even with those losses Pitt still has a better RPI than either Florida State (1-1 this weekend) or Louisville (0-2 this weekend).

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Originally Posted by Bone_afide_Dawg

Isn’t it crazy that the day word comes out about Tech’s opportunity to maybe host in the NCAAs is the day Tech plays like they absolutely don’t want to host. Tech is elite at not capitalizing on their opportunities. Pretty much any other institution team would play up to the opportunity, but not Tech. Instead, we wilt in spotlight of accomplishment.

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Ok but we did win both games today.... what’s your deal? Don’t beat yourself and us up so much.

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Ok but we did win both games today.... what’s your deal? Don’t beat yourself and us up so much.

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Try to stay current. That comment is two days old. Be careful you don’t get too far ahead of yourself. Tech was a squeaker from going down 2-1 today and there’s tomorrow to come yet. You’d better cross your fingers like I will be.

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Try to stay current. That comment is two days old. Be careful you don’t get too far ahead of yourself. Tech was a squeaker from going down 2-1 today and there’s tomorrow to come yet. You’d better cross your fingers like I will be.

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That’s baseball and what makes it exciting even when the game in general can be called “slow”.

Southern Miss is close to overtaking Louisiana Tech in Conference USA’s hosting pecking order. The Golden Eagles swept a doubleheader from FAU on Saturday after dropping the series opener on Friday. USM leads the C-USA West Division by a half game and has an RPI of 25, slightly higher than the Bulldogs. This is a fascinating race to follow over the next few weeks.

That’s from D1 who has been in love with Tech from basically the beginning of the season. If they are starting to falter, then we are actually probably behind so Miss and Charlotte in the pecking order for hosting.

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Originally Posted by rlirette

That’s from D1 who has been in love with Tech from basically the beginning of the season. If they are starting to falter, then we are actually probably behind so Miss and Charlotte in the pecking order for hosting.

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Good information. We had our chances and our Daddy is in position to beat us again even when we went 5-3 against them during the year. It's all about pitching.

Other than our BP, my concern is this...The same nine guys have been in the order since the Middle series. I'm not saying they are not our best nine, but I am concerned with who he goes to when he needs a pinch hitter when there are other guys who have not gotten a chance to hit since Marshall and before. That's puzzling to me when he had no problem using them for the first half of the season and with some success.

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Good information. We had our chances and our Daddy is in position to beat us again even when we went 5-3 against them during the year. It's all about pitching.

Other than our BP, my concern is this...The same nine guys have been in the order since the Middle series. I'm not saying they are not our best nine, but I am concerned with who he goes to when he needs a pinch hitter when there are other guys who have not gotten a chance to hit since Marshall and before. That's puzzling to me when he had no problem using them for the first half of the season and with some success.

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I think maybe Jaxson Slaughter could be the guy. Very intimidating name and the opposing teams know little about him so they would have a very minimal scouting report on him.

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Originally Posted by rlirette

Southern Miss is close to overtaking Louisiana Tech in Conference USA’s hosting pecking order. The Golden Eagles swept a doubleheader from FAU on Saturday after dropping the series opener on Friday. USM leads the C-USA West Division by a half game and has an RPI of 25, slightly higher than the Bulldogs. This is a fascinating race to follow over the next few weeks.

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After today, Tech is probably #1 again in that C-USA pecking order.

Seems like the two ODU games are great opportunities to beef up our RPI.

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Originally Posted by FriscoDawg

After today, Tech is probably #1 again in that C-USA pecking order.

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Hell yeah

Here are the RPIs of the 20 potential hosts through Sunday's games:

1 Arkansas
3 Texas
4 Vanderbilt
5 TCU
6 Arizona
7 Mississippi State
8 Texas Tech
9 Tennessee
10 East Carolina
11 South Carolina
12 Ole Miss
13 Notre Dame
15 Oregon
17 Gonzaga
20 Florida
22 Charlotte (in Gastonia)
23 Stanford
24 Louisiana Tech
28 Southern Miss
41 Pittsburgh

TCU lost to ulm...that should disqualify them from hosting.

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Originally Posted by FriscoDawg

After today, Tech is probably #1 again in that C-USA pecking order.

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Yep

CUSA is probably very deserving of having 3 first round NCAA home sites IF there aren’t any CUSA tournament disastrous outcomes like 0-2 and out. I’m really hoping we get 3 home field opportunities. The problem is as we all know, the major conferences get more than their fair share of favoritism. At this point pending their SEC tournament play LSU could snatch away Tech’s home hosting opportunity. It’s true they schooled us this season which sucks enormously but for us to then lose hosting to them would be horrific! Let’s hope this something of a hard earned Cinderella type season continues like destiny.

As long as we don’t fall flat on our face the next 2 weeks, I like our chances. I don’t see them choosing 3 Mississippi teams to host, so I think Southern Miss has a very hard road to get there. I also think the fact that LSU or ULL not being in the running for a host site helps us. Plus I think our back story with the tornado and new stadium helps us too. .
If we can at least split with ODU and win 2+ in the tournament, I think we can make it. Fingers crossed.

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Originally Posted by Bone_afide_Dawg

CUSA is probably very deserving of having 3 first round NCAA home sites IF there aren’t any CUSA tournament disastrous outcomes like 0-2 and out. I’m really hoping we get 3 home field opportunities. The problem is as we all know, the major conferences get more than their fair share of favoritism. At this point pending their SEC tournament play LSU could snatch away Tech’s home hosting opportunity. It’s true they schooled us this season which sucks enormously but for us to then lose hosting to them would be horrific! Let’s hope this something of a hard earned Cinderella type season continues like destiny.

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LSU is not in the running for hosting a regional.

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Originally Posted by SicemDawgz

LSU is not in the running for hosting a regional.

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Are you sure that can’t be changed should LSU pull off one of their crazy lucky endings and win the SEC tournament?

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Originally Posted by Bone_afide_Dawg

Are you sure that can’t be changed should LSU pull off one of their crazy lucky endings and win the SEC tournament?

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Yes, because the final sites will be chosen from the list above.

From the 20 initial consideration host sites; Arizona, Arkansas, East Carolina, Florida, MS State, Notre Dame, Ole Miss, Oregon, TCU (-), Tennessee, Texas, Texas Tech & Vanderbilt are what I’d consider 13 sure bets with TCU having an asterisk for their ULM catastrophe. If that marked a late season collapse TCU could fall out in the blink of an eye. They play at K-State this last weekend who are pretty good at home.

So based on my numbers of the remaining 7 lesser positioned teams; Gonzaga, Pittsburgh, S Carolina, S Miss, Stanford, Charlotte & LA Tech there are only 3 open spots. That’s awfully slim pickings made even more so considering there are 3 CUSA teams in the group of 7.

I do think Charlotte, Tech and Southern Miss are very well positioned as serious possible hosts as long as they don’t ‘lose’ their way the rest of the season.

As wild as this season has been already for Tech fans it’s not going to get any easier trying to capture hosting a NCAA first round. The thing is that with it being so historically close to being in our grasp it’d suck big time for it to slip through our fingers.

Good luck Dawgs!

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Are you sure that can’t be changed should LSU pull off one of their crazy lucky endings and win the SEC tournament?

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Via biased SEC wishes and Ump calls of course. 🥴

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Originally Posted by Bone_afide_Dawg

From the 20 initial consideration host sites; Arizona, Arkansas, East Carolina, Florida, MS State, Notre Dame, Ole Miss, Oregon, TCU (-), Tennessee, Texas, Texas Tech & Vanderbilt are what I’d consider 13 sure bets with TCU having an asterisk for their ULM catastrophe. If that marked a late season collapse TCU could fall out in the blink of an eye. They play at K-State this last weekend who are pretty good at home.

So based on my numbers of the remaining 7 lesser positioned teams; Gonzaga, Pittsburgh, S Carolina, S Miss, Stanford, Charlotte & LA Tech there are only 3 open spots. That’s awfully slim pickings made even more so considering there are 3 CUSA teams in the group of 7.

I do think Charlotte, Tech and Southern Miss are very well positioned as serious possible hosts as long as they don’t ‘lose’ their way the rest of the season.

As wild as this season has been already for Tech fans it’s not going to get any easier trying to capture hosting a NCAA first round. The thing is that with it being so historically close to being in our grasp it’d suck big time for it to slip through our fingers.

Good luck Dawgs!

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Since Gonzaga is one of only three potential hosting schools in the west (along with Oregon & Arizona), I would say it's highly likely that the Zags get one of those hosting spots.

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Here are the RPIs of the 20 potential hosts through Sunday's games:

1 Arkansas
3 Texas
4 Vanderbilt
5 TCU
6 Arizona
7 Mississippi State
8 Texas Tech
9 Tennessee
10 East Carolina
11 South Carolina
12 Ole Miss
13 Notre Dame
15 Oregon
17 Gonzaga
20 Florida
22 Charlotte (in Gastonia)
23 Stanford
24 Louisiana Tech
28 Southern Miss
41 Pittsburgh

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Remaining schedules (RPI Reverse order)
Pitt @ Wake Forest
USM @ C-USA Tourney
Tech vs. ODU, C-USA Tourney
Stanford @ Oregon, vs. Oregon State (Both high RPI)
CLT vs. UNCW,
Florida @ Arkansas
Gonzaga @ Oregon, vs. San Francisco
Oregon vs. Gonzaga, vs. Stanford, @ Cal
ND @ VA Tech
Ole Miss vs. TN-Martin, @ Georgia
S Carolina vs. App St, Tennessee
E Carolina @ S Florida

I’m thinking and hoping that RPIs aren’t going to be the all important deciding factors this year like they have been in the past because this Covid season has been so limiting in so many ways. I’m not going to analyze every conference, but I know plenty of conferences have done things so differently this year that RPIs are not a consistently fair measure this year like simple wins and loses are. Having said that, I’m 99% sure the NCAA will have the host sites be who they want them to be even if they have to use 10 different formulas to get them there. As much as Tech’s wins, loses and RPI plays into their chances to host, so does the story of Tech’s weather related hardships and their new facility, it’s a really good comeback story. I’m going to do all I can with crossed fingers and toes and just hope Tech continues to win.

I agree that our story would sell. TV sets and seats. I imagine people who just love baseball may turn out just to be a part of it.

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Originally Posted by Bone_afide_Dawg

From the 20 initial consideration host sites; Arizona, Arkansas, East Carolina, Florida, MS State, Notre Dame, Ole Miss, Oregon, TCU (-), Tennessee, Texas, Texas Tech & Vanderbilt are what I’d consider 13 sure bets with TCU having an asterisk for their ULM catastrophe. If that marked a late season collapse TCU could fall out in the blink of an eye. They play at K-State this last weekend who are pretty good at home.

So based on my numbers of the remaining 7 lesser positioned teams; Gonzaga, Pittsburgh, S Carolina, S Miss, Stanford, Charlotte & LA Tech there are only 3 open spots. That’s awfully slim pickings made even more so considering there are 3 CUSA teams in the group of 7.

I do think Charlotte, Tech and Southern Miss are very well positioned as serious possible hosts as long as they don’t ‘lose’ their way the rest of the season.

As wild as this season has been already for Tech fans it’s not going to get any easier trying to capture hosting a NCAA first round. The thing is that with it being so historically close to being in our grasp it’d suck big time for it to slip through our fingers.

Good luck Dawgs!

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This is the exact scenario I have written down. Those same 7 teams for the final 3 spots. Although I have Pittsburgh out of the running, so 6 teams for 3 spots.

I agree with HogDawg that Gonzaga will likely take one of those spots, so that would leave 5 teams for 2 spots. I'll be following South Carolina and Stanford closely this weekend (playing #4 Tennessee and #10 Oregon, respectively) hoping they lose 2 or 3 each.

I ultimately think Stanford gets to host (will be the only regional in California) and South Carolina misses the cut, leaving only 1 CUSA team to host. Unless the tournament champion is someone other than Tech, S Miss, or Charlotte, I think the tournament champion will be the one to host.

Here are the RPIs of the 20 potential hosts through Tuesday's games with results and regular season games remaining:

1 (was 1) Arkansas, home vs Florida (3), SEC
2 (was 3) Texas, game vs Rice canceled, home vs West Virginia (3), Big 12
4 (was 4) Vanderbilt, won 20-4 vs FIU, home vs Kentucky (3), SEC
5 (was 5) TCU, game vs Texas State canceled, at Kansas State (3), Big 12
6 (was 6) Arizona, won 14-3 vs New Mexico State, at Oregon State (3), vs Dixie State (3)
7 (was 8) Texas Tech, vs Kansas (3), Big 12
8 (was 7) Mississippi State, won 6-1 vs Jacksonville State, at Alabama (3), SEC
9 (was 9) Tennessee, won 11-2 vs Belmont, at South Carolina (3), SEC
10 (was 10) East Carolina, at South Florida (4), AAC
11 (was 11) South Carolina, won 2-0 vs Appalachian State, vs Tennessee (3), SEC
12 (was 13) Notre Dame, at Virginia Tech (3), ACC
13 (was 15) Oregon, won 10-3 vs Gonzaga, vs Stanford (3), at California (3)
15 (was 12) Ole Miss, lost 9-7 vs Tennessee-Martin, at Georgia (3), SEC
17 (was 17) Gonzaga, lost 10-3 at Oregon, vs San Francisco (3), vs San Diego (3)
18 (was 23) Stanford, at Oregon (3), vs Oregon State (3)
19 (was 20) Florida, at Arkansas (3), SEC
21 (was 22) Charlotte (in Gastonia), vs UNC Wilmington (3), C-USA
23 (was 24) Louisiana Tech, vs Old Dominion (2), C-USA
26 (was 28) Southern Miss, C-USA
39 (was 41) Pittsburgh, game vs Akron canceled, at Wake Forest (3), ACC

LSU lost to the NSU Demons, 7-3. That can't help the ole RPI...

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LSU lost to the NSU Demons, 7-3. That can't help the ole RPI...

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NSU has a pretty big advantage though:

They're not Tech.

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LSU lost to the NSU Demons, 7-3. That can't help the ole RPI...

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LSU dropped from 18 to 22, 12 RPI points or 0.0012 ahead of Tech (0.5723 to 0.5711).

Miami dropped to 24 after FAU's 3-0 win in Coral Gables last night, and that moved Tech up to 23.

This could be a factor since Louisiana is now at 100%.

WholeHogSports - NCAA opens door for full stadiums at baseball, softball regionals

Hopefully we could get enough fans in the stands to make it a truly home regional

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Hopefully we could get enough fans in the stands to make it a truly home regional

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If lsu was in I’m not sure our people could react fast enough to outnumber them

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If lsu was in I’m not sure our people could react fast enough to outnumber them

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Yeah I don’t think so either. It’d be disappointing but still fun.

Surely the NCAA wouldnt place two Louisiana teams in the same regional.

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Surely the NCAA wouldnt place two Louisiana teams in the same regional.

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I wouldn't necessarily expect LSU in Ruston, but I would not be surprised at all if at least two Louisiana teams were placed in Ruston.

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Surely the NCAA wouldnt place two Louisiana teams in the same regional.

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That’s there MO - we could have 4 Louisiana teams

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If lsu was in I’m not sure our people could react fast enough to outnumber them

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The 16 host sites will be announced at 7:30 PM CT on Sunday, May 30. If we are hosting, that gives us over 15 hours to sell tickets before the bracket is announced at 11:00 AM CT on Monday, May 31, on ESPN2.

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Originally Posted by FriscoDawg

The 16 host sites will be announced at 7:30 PM CT on Sunday, May 30. If we are hosting, that gives us over 15 hours to sell tickets before the bracket is announced at 11:00 AM CT on Monday, May 31, on ESPN2.

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I don't think it will be an issue ;)

I'm already looking at accommodations around StarkVegas

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Originally Posted by FriscoDawg

The 16 host sites will be announced at 7:30 PM CT on Sunday, May 30. If we are hosting, that gives us over 15 hours to sell tickets before the bracket is announced at 11:00 AM CT on Monday, May 31, on ESPN2.

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I guess when Tech finally screws up the NCAA hosting opportunity, at least half way there after last night’s OD loss, we can get the monkey off our back and just play good baseball. It seems like Burroughs can’t coach under the pressure, so he hurts the team overthinking things.

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I don't think it will be an issue ;)

I'm already looking at accommodations around StarkVegas

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That’s there MO - we could have 4 Louisiana teams

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Now, we can all finally quit pretending about Tech hosting a regional. Arkansas or MS State, here we come...

More importantly, will our coach ever acknowledge that from the first pitch of the season we would be about 5 arms shy of possible greatness?

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Now, we can all finally quit pretending about Tech hosting a regional. Arkansas or MS State, here we come...

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.....I think it's a mistake to automatically assume that Tech makes the regionals. We probably have a 50/50 chance at best. If we screw up the CUSA Tournament the way we have the end of our regular season, it's game over.

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.....I think it's a mistake to automatically assume that Tech makes the regionals. We probably have a 50/50 chance at best. If we screw up the CUSA Tournament the way we have the end of our regular season, it's game over.

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As it should be. Our senior and/or junior leaders need to get this team back on track.

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.....I think it's a mistake to automatically assume that Tech makes the regionals. We probably have a 50/50 chance at best. If we screw up the CUSA Tournament the way we have the end of our regular season, it's game over.

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To go from a possible projected 16 seed host site team to not even making the field of 64 in just 4 games would have to rank as one of the all time greatest of the greatest FUps ever. Surely not even Tech in all it’s infamous dumpster fire endings could pull that off. Even for LA Tech it simply isn’t possible to go from a nationally ranked best season ever team to the be the biggest failing team of all time ever in one season. You’d have to be the most diabolical script writer of all time to write out that scenario. Tell me it isn’t going to happen. Surely Tech can’t finish the season losing their last 2 regular season games at home, then go 0-2 at home as tournament host to them go 0-2 in the NCAA playoffs. I bet that’s never happened in the history of collegiate baseball. Something like that would be as unimaginable as a record setting 87 yard fumble. Oh wait, that happened ;).

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Originally Posted by Bone_afide_Dawg

To go from a possible projected 16 seed host site team to not even making the field of 64 in just 4 games would have to rank as one of the all time greatest of the greatest FUps ever. Surely not even Tech in all it’s infamous dumpster fire endings could pull that off. Even for LA Tech it simply isn’t possible to go from a nationally ranked best season ever team to the be the biggest failing team of all time ever in one season. You’d have to be the most diabolical script writer of all time to write out that scenario. Tell me it isn’t going to happen. Surely Tech can’t finish the season losing their last 2 regular season games at home, then go 0-2 at home as tournament host to them go 0-2 in the NCAA playoffs. I bet that’s never happened in the history of collegiate baseball. Something like that would be as unimaginable as a record setting 87 yard fumble. Oh wait, that happened ;).

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEEDwRrHujs

As long as our admin is happy with winning seasons and they celebrate finishing first in CUSA West regular season play, nothing will change. Things that other schools expect every year we think are goals in our 5-10 year plan. If we stopped cutting down nets and dumping Gatorade for regular season success, things might be different.

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To go from a possible projected 16 seed host site team to not even making the field of 64 in just 4 games would have to rank as one of the all time greatest of the greatest FUps ever. Surely not even Tech in all it’s infamous dumpster fire endings could pull that off. Even for LA Tech it simply isn’t possible to go from a nationally ranked best season ever team to the be the biggest failing team of all time ever in one season. You’d have to be the most diabolical script writer of all time to write out that scenario. Tell me it isn’t going to happen. Surely Tech can’t finish the season losing their last 2 regular season games at home, then go 0-2 at home as tournament host to them go 0-2 in the NCAA playoffs. I bet that’s never happened in the history of collegiate baseball. Something like that would be as unimaginable as a record setting 87 yard fumble. Oh wait, that happened ;).

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Well, we did go from having Orange Bowl reps in the stadium to no bowl in just 2 games. I’d say anything is possible when it comes to Tech athletics.

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Well, we did go from having Orange Bowl reps in the stadium to no bowl in just 2 games. I’d say anything is possible when it comes to Tech athletics.

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Yep, that ranks right up there as one of the biggest Tech-ups!

Man y’all are nuts. Tech is making the ncaa tourney even if they go 0-2.

The question hosting, just need to be better than so miss and Charlotte in the tourney. Might not host as a 1 but we would still host in that situation. Pitt is out of the hosting convo and they would give the best cusa team a host spot over another team.

Now the plausibility of tech actually being better in the cusa tournament is low given their recent play. But stranger things have happened.

Here is a stranger thing.

Jackson State went 24-0 in regular season SWAC play and 3-0 in its tournament pool. But SWAC win #28 didn't happen. Southern gets a 3-run HR in the top of the 9th and wins the NCAA bid 7-6. Unexpected RPI boost for Tech.

Here are the RPIs of the 20 potential hosts as of 6:30 PM Sunday with record, record since making the host list, today's games, and games remaining.

1 Arkansas (42-10, 5-1), SEC Tournament Wednesday vs Georgia/LSU
3 Texas (40-13, 2-1), Big 12 Tournament Wednesday vs West Virginia/Kansas
4 Vanderbilt (39-13, 4-3), SEC Tournament Wednesday vs Ole Miss/Auburn
5 Mississippi State (40-13, 4-2), SEC Tournament Wednesday vs Florida/Kentucky
6 Arizona (38-14, 6-1), W 6-5 at Oregon State, vs Dixie State (3)
7 TCU (36-16, 2-4), Big 12 Tournament Wednesday vs Kansas State
8 Texas Tech (35-13, 4-2), Big 12 Tournament Wednesday vs Baylor
9 Tennessee (42-14, 4-3), SEC Tournament Wednesday vs South Carolina/Alabama
10 Notre Dame (29-10, 3-0), ACC Tournament pool play with Virginia and Virginia Tech
11 East Carolina (38-13, 5-3), AAC Tournament Tuesday vs Memphis
13 Stanford (31-13, 4-3), W 8-5 (12) at Oregon, vs Oregon State (3)
14 South Carolina (33-20, 5-2), SEC Tournament Tuesday vs Alabama
15 Ole Miss (38-17, 4-3), SEC Tournament Tuesday vs Auburn
17 Oregon (35-13, 5-2), L 8-5 (12) vs Stanford, at California (3)
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18 Charlotte (39-17, 4-3), would host in Gastonia, C-USA Tournament Wednesday vs Middle Tennessee
20 Florida (35-19, 2-4), SEC Tournament Tuesday vs Kentucky
24 Gonzaga (32-15, 5-2), L 11-1 vs San Francisco, vs San Diego (3)
25 Southern Miss (35-17, 2-2), C-USA Tournament Wednesday vs Western Kentucky
29 Louisiana Tech (36-16, 3-3), C-USA Tournament Wednesday vs UTSA
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48 Pittsburgh (22-19, 0-6), ACC Tournament pool play with North Carolina State and North Carolina

My take is that the first 13 hosts listed are locks. And Oregon would likely have to lose its series at Cal (80 RPI) to be in any danger of not hosting.

Pittsburgh must make noise in the ACC Tournament to even make the NCAA field with basically no chance to host.

That leaves the remaining five for two host spots. The C-USA Tournament winner could get a host spot if it is from the three on the list. Florida could be out with a one-and-done or 1-2 record in Hoover. Gonzaga could get the other spot if it can win its series vs San Diego, and it needs one win to claim the WCC championship.

It may have already been covered, but who in the hell scheduled a two game series with a very good team from CUSA in the last week of the regular season (that didn't even count as a conference game), when no other team in the conference did the same (or did they)? AD or HC?

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It may have already been covered, but who in the hell scheduled a two game series with a very good team from CUSA in the last week of the regular season (that didn't even count as a conference game), when no other team in the conference did the same (or did they)? AD or HC?

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FIU would have played at USM had they made the tournament. We were originally scheduled to play Rice on Thursday/Friday (as non-conference). Those games were removed very soon after the schedule was originally announced. UNCC played UNCW.

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It may have already been covered, but who in the hell scheduled a two game series with a very good team from CUSA in the last week of the regular season (that didn't even count as a conference game), when no other team in the conference did the same (or did they)? AD or HC?

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AD may have veto power but doesn't schedule baseball.

If we are scared we should just stay home. ODU was a good team and it appears our football coach called our baseball coach to tell him how to...

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It may have already been covered, but who in the hell scheduled a two game series with a very good team from CUSA in the last week of the regular season (that didn't even count as a conference game), when no other team in the conference did the same (or did they)? AD or HC?

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Most likely Burroughs. Even up to the games being played they were advantageous for Tech IF we’d won them. The wins would’ve helped Tech’s win-lose record, boosted the RPI, helped with hosting an NCAA regional and would’ve been confidence boosters headed into the tournament. Now however after losing both games in repeat performance losing a substantial lead we’ve been weakened in every way possible. It seems fair to say the lesson learned is that if you’re going to take such risks then you’ve got to have a better plan for winning than just coaching by the seat of your pants.

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If we are scared we should just stay home. ODU was a good team and it appears our football coach called our baseball coach to tell him how to...

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.......mail it in?.........choke away the lead?............micromanage our teams into a complete loss of confidence?

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.......mail it in?.........choke away the lead?............micromanage our teams into a complete loss of confidence?

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Yep. I’ve been to every home game this year. I thought the price for tournament passes was too high so I decided to wait on session passes. Not paying $60 per session to watch what I’ve seen over the past several weeks. EllAye Tech continues to run fans away

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Well, we did go from having Orange Bowl reps in the stadium to no bowl in just 2 games. I’d say anything is possible when it comes to Tech athletics.

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“No bowl”???

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Yep. I’ve been to every home game this year. I thought the price for tournament passes was too high so I decided to wait on session passes. Not paying $60 per session to watch what I’ve seen over the past several weeks. EllAye Tech continues to run fans away

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Go to the games please. Support the team. I’d be there if I could and will be at the regional if we host. Go dawgs!

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Go to the games please. Support the team. I’d be there if I could and will be at the regional if we host. Go dawgs!

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It’s a new season starting this week guys!!
Lord willing, I’m there on Wednesday and every Dawg game this week.

I’ve got my 1st session tickets although they are fewer than my season tickets. Our recent play didn’t justify such an expenditure and considering game time it’s impossible to get some of the family there. Of course I’m pulling hard for Tech, but I’m concerned. As everyone knows, of late we haven’t been playing anywhere close to our best baseball or really even good baseball. There’s no room for underachieving anymore. Go Dawgs, Beat UTSA!

Hopefully we have enough fans show up to outnumber utsa and then likely so miss fans. Though I’m thinking so miss will outnumber us which is unfortunate.

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Hopefully we have enough fans show up to outnumber utsa and then likely so miss fans. Though I’m thinking so miss will outnumber us which is unfortunate.

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That’s crazy thinking! No way either out number us.

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That’s crazy thinking! No way either out number us.

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I think unless something is done about the morale of the fanbase, then it feels almost like a sure thing that southern miss outnumbers is. They are probably sending multiple buses and motorhomes in for the game.

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That’s crazy thinking! No way either out number us.

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That's because you have UNREALISTIC expectations! Shame on you!

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That's because you have UNREALISTIC expectations! Shame on you!

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He's right you should've seen this coming after the team played Marshall.

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That's because you have UNREALISTIC expectations! Shame on you!

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Yeah there is no way you show up to the cusa tourney games so that’s one passionate fan out. Too bad you can’t show up and bring a bunch of fans with you. I think supportive and loud fans like yourself can really make a big difference.

Who knows, we could even end up in Omaha!

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He's right you should've seen this coming after the team played Marshall.

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It's the fans fault Tech teams crash and burn every year every sport!

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It's the fans fault Tech teams crash and burn every year every sport!

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Dang right! And it’s even more on the shoulders of us on the board. If we projected good vibes, things would be different.

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Who knows, we could even end up in Omaha!

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Fresno St came from nowhere to win it all.

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It's the fans fault Tech teams crash and burn every year every sport!

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You know this isn’t true. I get you maybe trying to shame people into coming to the remaining games or to get them to let up on their criticisms of Tech not playing better here lately, but in honesty, the fans have absolutely nothing to do with the players’ performance on the field. I can’t help Ray not take strike 3 or Netterville swinging at an outside curveballs, I haven’t walked the first opposing batter or even hit a walkoff HR. It fans truly impacted the game our teams would never lose.

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You know this isn’t true. I get you maybe trying to shame people into coming to the remaining games or to get them to let up on their criticisms of Tech not playing better here lately, but in honesty, the fans have absolutely nothing to do with the players’ performance on the field. I can’t help Ray not take strike 3 or Netterville swinging at an outside curveballs, I haven’t walked the first opposing batter or even hit a walkoff HR. It fans truly impacted the game our teams would never lose.

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He was being sarcastic.

And certainly the fans can’t play the game for the players. If that were the case, we would lose every game. Now I disagree that fans have no impact on player performance. Baseball is a mental as well as physical game, and fans can provide emotional support to improve the players’ belief in themselves that even though they failed the first two times that they can get up there and do better next time.

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You know this isn’t true. I get you maybe trying to shame people into coming to the remaining games or to get them to let up on their criticisms of Tech.

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Yes all Dawg fans need to get their butts in the seats this week! Period! Quit pissing and moaning.

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Yes all Dawg fans need to get their butts in the seats this week! Period! Quit pissing and moaning.

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I'll be there. I changed my mind, but not because a few pretentious fans "shamed" me into it.

This is a message board where people compliment, complain, and air out what they feel, know, or think they know.

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I'll be there. I changed my mind, but not because a few pretentious fans "shamed" me into it.

This is a message board where people compliment, complain, and air out what they feel, know, or think they know.

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Awesome, glad you’ll be there. I was worried that my favorite poster on here wasn’t going to the games. I was thinking if he isn’t going then how many other people are thinking of not going...

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Awesome, glad you’ll be there. I was worried that my favorite poster on here wasn’t going to the games. I was thinking if he isn’t going then how many other people are thinking of not going...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54LgyqSPfsQ


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Let’s get it on right on into hosting a regional. Ready for a 4-0 week. Let’s go boys!

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I'll be there. I changed my mind, but not because a few pretentious fans "shamed" me into it.

This is a message board where people compliment, complain, and air out what they feel, know, or think they know.

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Agreed!
I complain as well. This week is the time for us to step up as well. We will be there too “Lord Willing” as we have the rooms as well.