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Baseball Conference Updates - CTcard - 05-03-2018

Pac 12 baseball has turned into the Big 3 and Little 8 (Colorado doesn't have a team), though UW is currently hanging with the top 3 in conference standings.

The current conference standings are:
Stanford  14-4,     33-6,    ranked #1/2,          RPI #1
UCLA      14-4,     30-10,   ranked #6-8,          RPI #20
Oreg St   12-6,     33-7,     ranked #3 (mostly), RPI #9
UW         11-7,     20-19,   unranked,              RPI #79
cal         10-11,    25-17,   unranked,              RPI #82
ASU       10-11,    18-25,   unranked,              RPI #111
Arizona    7-11,    25-17,   unranked,              RPI #58
Oregon    8-13,    21-21,   unranked,              RPI #79
$C            7-14,    19-21,   unranked,              RPI #116
WSU        6-12,   14-23,    unranked,             RPI #158
Utah        6-12,   12-29,    unranked,             RPI #197

* According to the official NCAA site, UW and Oregon are exactly tied in RPI.
** There are 297 teams in NCAA Div. 1 baseball.

Stanford still has conference series at Utah, at Oregon State, vs. WSU, at UW
UCLA still has conference series at Arizona, at UW, vs Oregon, at Oregon State
Oregon State still has conference series at WSU, vs Stanford, at $C, vs UCLA

So, Stanford and UCLA have 3/4 series on the road, OSU 2/4; but OSU still has to face both the other leading teams whereas Stanford and UCLA have already played (UCLA won that series). The difficulty of the schedules remaining are fairly similar. I'd probably give UCLA the current advantage as they hold a tie-breaker.


Baseball America currently projects Stanford as the National #2 seed, OSU as #6, and UCLA as #10. Other sites project something similar.

In a new development this year, the super-regionals are set as winner of regional hosted by #1 vs winner of regional hosted by #16, #2 vs #15, etc. In the past the super-regional pairings were set after the regionals due to geography-ish.

At the moment, Baseball America is projecting Arizona as a fourth Pac-12 team to make the field as one of the last four in.

Stanford OOC opponents projected into the field include Texas (2 seed), Fullerton (3 seed), Michigan (3 seed), USF (4 seed),

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