05-29-2023, 09:53 AM
(05-29-2023, 08:29 AM)terry Wrote:(05-28-2023, 11:34 AM)Mick Wrote: SCU finished 1-1 against Stanford this year. Stanford's the #3 ranked team in the country. D1 Baseball is projecting that Stanford wreill be the #1 seed in the local regional of the 64 teams selected for the NCAA tournament (16 four-team regions). They are projecting that SCU will be the #4 seed in the same regional, along with Texas and UC Irvine as the #2 and #3 seeds. The tournament selection is 9:00 a.m. tomorrow, Pacific time.
I'd rather not have Santa Clara in Stanford's bracket. I think they could be a tough 4 seed.
You get your wish. Santa Clara (and Arizona) are in the garden spot of America -- Fayetteville, Arkansas, a mere 1,875 miles from the SCU campus. Arkansas is the #1 seed, followed by TCU, Arizona and SCU in that order.
The organizers didn't do Arkansas any favors. TCU beat Arkansas earlier in the year. TCU also lost 2 of 3 to San Diego, a sub-.500 team that played SCU pretty evenly (each team won a 10-6 game, then USD had a narrow overtime win over SCU earlier in the year when SCU had some injured regulars). And Arizona beat #2 Tennessee earlier in the year and split with Stanford. It could get interesting...
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