NCAA Baseball Tournament Selection Show

by **MVCfans** » May 28th, 2011, 10:18 pm

You can see where the Creighton Bluejays will be seeded on Monday at 11:30am, when ESPN televises the tournament selection show. Creighton officials indicated that they hope to claim a 2 seed in the regional tournament, although some expect a 3 seed in the four team bracket that will be announced on Monday.

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by **MVCfans** » May 29th, 2011, 9:54 am

Projecting the NCAA baseball field is an inexact science because the host sites are determined by variables such as RPI, attendance figures, etc. There's only a handful of places where you can find tournament projections. One that I found has Creighton heading to Corvallis, Oregon. When I have more time, I'll see what else I can find or please offer your own thoughts.

Corvallis Regional:

Oregon State

Fresno State

Creighton

Gonzaga

by **MVCfans** » May 29th, 2011, 9:57 am

Here's another:

Fullerton Regional:

Cal State Fullerton

UCLA

Creighton

Stony Brook

by **MVCfans** » May 29th, 2011, 10:00 am

2011 NCAA BASEBALL TOURNAMENT FULLY-SEEDED PROJECTION
(based primarily on the CB360 Composite National Rankings; slight corrections made to avoid certain conference matchups)

Vanderbilt is the new #1 team in the Composite National rankings and would be paired up in its home Regional with Alcorn State (#64 “seed”), plus Creighton and Coastal Carolina (the #32 and #33 teams in the current CB360 top-50/CNR). Essentially, the combined seeds in all of the day-1 matchups listed below add up to 65 (prior to modifications to keep conference rivals apart in the earlygoing).

http://collegebaseball360.com/2011/05/2 ... -scenario/

(1) Vanderbilt
Creighton
Coastal Carolina
Alcorn State

Rice
Oklahoma
Mississippi
Stony Brook

by **LJay** » May 29th, 2011, 10:23 am

Does it really matter if you are a 2 versus a 3? Don't you end up in pretty much the same place...on the opposite side of the bracket from the #1 in a 4 team pod?

This would especially seem true if you were just barely in or out as a 2 versus a 3 as I am guessing they play the lowest rated 2 against the top 3 with the 2 that just barely missed being a 1 taking on the lowest rated 3.

Can't say I know how the NCAA does their thing.

Can say that last night was a ton of fun!!!! :rock:

by **MVCfans** » May 29th, 2011, 2:48 pm

16 regional sites were just announces:

Georgia Tech 40-19
Texas 43-15
Cal State Fulleron
North Carolina 45-14
Virginia 48-9
Clemson 41-18
Texas
Texas A&M 41-18
South Carolina 45-14
Oregon State 38-16
TCU 42-17
Florida 44-16
Rice 41-19
UCLA 33-21
Vanderbilt 47-9
Florida State 42-16
Arizona State 38-16

by **Pinkie** » May 30th, 2011, 8:38 am

There's nothing even remotely local so I'm not sure it matters where CU gets sent. If they can avoid a top 8 team in their bracket, that would be good enough I think.

by **LMS** » May 30th, 2011, 10:35 am

Former Bluejay Brian O'Connor and Virginia are the #1 overall seed.

by **LMS** » May 30th, 2011, 10:39 am

Pinkie wrote:There's nothing even remotely local so I'm not sure it matters where CU gets sent. If they can avoid a top 8 team in their bracket, that would be good enough I think.

Looks like they'll be in one of the 9-16 brackets.

by **LMS** » May 30th, 2011, 10:45 am

Jays head to Corvallis. Georgia in the first game.