(03-17-2025, 11:21 AM)cardfan77 Wrote: East Coast bias. When Stanford won the series on the road against UNC, they entered the ranking at #18. However, Louisville won the series at home against UNC, and they entered the ranking at #16.
Stanford just needs to keep winning and hopefully be one of the top 8-seeded teams. It would be great if they could host regional and super regional.
ECMB. First commented on it in rec.sport.football.college iirc.
(03-17-2025, 03:15 PM)needle Wrote:(03-17-2025, 10:33 AM)skip75 Wrote: Stanford moves up 4 spots to #14.
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/stor...eek-5-2025
The top 4 are all from the SEC. Other ACC teams in the top 25 are: Florida State still at #5; Clemson up 3 spots to #7; Wake Forest stays at #11; Louisville enters the top 25 at #16; UNC tumbles 11 spots to #17; and UVa remains at #23.
I'm just a casual baseball fan, but did anyone notice the scores between Xavier and the three SEC teams they played? Xavier, which split a four-game series with Stanford, lost all five of their games against SEC competition (Tenn., LSU and Vandy x 3) by a combined score of 9-56.
Overall, Xavier is 8-13. My very uninformed opinion is that Stanford split the series with Xavier because that's baseball. Curious if others have thoughts about it.
Early season. Team still gelling. Plus just one of those weekends.