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Further to the discussion of the impact of required sports on our Cup prospects, the following table shows the current status of all four sports.  For the three sports in progress I have used Seed, Seed, and Rank respectively as a proxy for how well they are doing.  Apologies in advance for the poor formatting.

			Cup Points	Seed	Seed	Rank
	Standings	School	WVB	WBK	MBK	M Baseball
	1	Stanford	83	4	None	3
	2	Penn State	83	None	None	NR
	3	Wisconsin	64	None	None	NR
	4	UCLA	64	3	11	17
	5	Michigan	25	7	3	NR
	6	Michigan State	73	None	3	NR
	7	North Carolina State	50	4	9	24
	8	USC	73	None	None	NR
	9	Colorado	64	None	None	NR
	10	Texas	73	2	10	NR
	11	Duke	0	5	2	21

The above information suggests that UCLA is the biggest threat to outscore Stanford in the four required sports.

A more complete analysis would look deeper into baseball rankings and possibly consider Ohio State and Florida since they have each finished second to Stanford within the past five years.  In any event, we'll have a much better feel for this in a few weeks after Final Fours have concluded and we have additional official Cup scores.  In the meanwhile, we can cheer on the Women's Basketball team and resurgent Baseball.

Geaux Cardinal!

[BigEasyCard]

Further to the discussion of the impact of required sports on our Cup prospects, the following table shows the current status of all four sports.  For the three sports in progress I have used Seed, Seed, and Rank respectively as a proxy for how well they are doing.  Apologies in advance for the poor formatting.

			Cup Points	Seed	Seed	Rank
	Standings	School	WVB	WBK	MBK	M Baseball
	1	Stanford	83	4	None	3
	2	Penn State	83	None	None	NR
	3	Wisconsin	64	None	None	NR
	4	UCLA	64	3	11	17
	5	Michigan	25	7	3	NR
	6	Michigan State	73	None	3	NR
	7	North Carolina State	50	4	9	24
	8	USC	73	None	None	NR
	9	Colorado	64	None	None	NR
	10	Texas	73	2	10	NR
	11	Duke	0	5	2	21

The above information suggests that UCLA is the biggest threat to outscore Stanford in the four required sports.

A more complete analysis would look deeper into baseball rankings and possibly consider Ohio State and Florida since they have each finished second to Stanford within the past five years.  In any event, we'll have a much better feel for this in a few weeks after Final Fours have concluded and we have additional official Cup scores.  In the meanwhile, we can cheer on the Women's Basketball team and resurgent Baseball.

Geaux Cardinal!