(05-06-2025, 10:25 AM)TonyLima Wrote: Current RPI. We’re #47? https://www.11point7.com/college-baseball/rpi-rankings
Baseball America has a projected NCAA tournament field. This is of course very unofficial, but, as of April 30, Stanford is not close to being invited to the dance:
https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/...-april-30/
Maybe last weekend's series win over BC (65 RPI) helped a little, but I kind of doubt it. We have regular season games left against Santa Clara (211) tonight, Grand Canyon x 3 (90) this weekend and North Carolina State x 3 (36) next weekend.
Stanford is currently 15th (out of 16) in the ACC rankings with a 9-18 conference record and no chance to earn a first-round bye in the ACC tournament starting on May 20. To win the automatic bid, we would need to win five games in six days.
In 2024 no ACC teams with a conference record below .500 were selected as at-large teams, although Georgia Tech and Wake Forest were 15-15.
I don't follow non-Stanford college baseball, so I have no idea what we would need to do to earn an at-large bid. Sweep SCU and GCU, win the series @ NC State and make the semis of the conference tournament? I don't know, that's just a WAG.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)