Rankings of Regional Teams from BA and USA Today... and then I ranked the difficulty of each Regional and put them in order, check out some of the gimmes that are given out... Fullerton Regional: 1 (Wow... Harvard a push over, but the rest.. yikes) CSF 4/3 Mizzou 16/NR Arizona 7/9 Harvard NR/NR New Orleans Regional: 2 (Tulane got screwed with USL/Bama) Tulane #1/1 Alabama #18/NR USL #NR/20 Southern NR/NR Baton Rouge Regional: 3 ( LSU/Rice very good teams at moments) LSU #13/12 Rice #14/7 NSU NR/NR Marist NR/NR Long Beach Regional: 4 (Most of the good West Coast teams here) USC 21/18 Pepperdine NR/NR Rhode Is. NR/NR Long Beach 12/16 Waco Regional: 5 (All good and solid teams) Stanford NR/NR TCU 24/NR Baylor 8/10 UT SA NR/NR Atlanta Regional: 6 (GTech solid, USC solid, Furman solid) GTech 5/6 South Car. NR/23 Furman NR/NR Michigan NR/NR Lincoln Regional: 7 ( NC St. solid, Creighton... Ill Chic... weak) Nebraska 3/4 NC St. 22/25 Creighton NR/NR Ill-Chicago NR/NR Gainesville Regional: 8 (UNC has talent, Notre Dame also, but still weak) Notre Dame NR/NR Stetson NR/NR UF 11/8 UNC NR/15 Coral Gables Regional: 9 (Miss. St. play good ball of late, but who else?) Miami 17/13 Miss. St. 19/21 FAU NR/NR VCU NR/NR Oxford Regional: 10 (Choklahoma... Maine.. probly should be lower) Ole Miss 9/11 Oklahoma NR/NR Maine NR/NR Southern Miss NR/NR Tallahassee Regional: 11 (Auburn put up a fight, but who else here) FSU 20/14 Army NR/NR South Alabama NR/NR Auburn NR/NR Knoxville Regional: 12 (Wichita is not the same, Winthrop one good SP) Tennessee 10/17 Wichita St. NR/NR Winthrop NR/NR Austin Peay NR/NR Tempe Regional: 13 (Coastal a two seed, 3000 students at the school) Az. St. 23/24 UNLV NR/NR Coastal Car. 25/NR East Car. NR/NR Austin Regional: 14 (Arkansas is the only real challenge and not much) UT 6/5 Arkansas NR/NR Quinnipiac LOL Miami (Ohio) LOL Clemson Regional: 15 (cream puffs) Clemson 15/19 College of Char. NR/22 NC A&T NR/NR Oral Roberts NR/NR Corvallis Regional: 16 (what the fudge are 3 east coast teams doing in Oreg) Oregon St. #2/2 Virginia NR/NR St. Johns NR/NR Ohio State NR/NR
I think the likes of Wake Forest, Vanderbilt, aTm, UGA should have gotten seeds over Quinnipiac, Miami OH, FAU and the likes... also where the hell is the Big East teams ? Do they even play baseball ? I also think that the Regionals should reward higher post season rankings with lower ranked 2,3,4 seeds.... to reward for good regular seasons... also the Big 10 Northeastern teams should be given their own regional... and host their own teams... I.E. Tulane v. #32 team in the nation CalStFul v. #31.... etc.. then just plug in conference title winners for 4 seeds and 3 seeds closest area. Wish i was on the board who sets up Regional/Supers
I seriously think that the committee picks out the most obvious 16 #1 seeds, the most obvious 16 #4 seeds (Southern, Harvard, etc.), and then throws everybody else into a hat to see where they go and how they're seeded. I really believe that. And why not? It makes about as much sense as anything else, given the way this thing is set up every year.
