NCAA tournament time!

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fryeguy93

fryeguy93

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NCAA Tournament begins tomorrow.

We have not really discussed but in light of the fact that we are apparently waiting for coaches involved to be eliminated before interviewing and hiring I think it’s worthy of discussion

There are 8 National Seeds. In most cases, they are guaranteed of hosting the first two weekends if not eliminated. Those 8 seeds are dominated by SEC and ACC. As you may recall, the ACC has not won a national title since Wake Forest in 1955 (2 years after conference was founded) Yet we still hear a lot about their dominance. Wonder why?

Anyway the national seeds are:

(1) Virginia
(2) Florida
(3) North Carolina
(4) South Carolina
(5) Florida State
(6) Vanderbilt
(7) Texas
(8) Rice

Eight other schools host first weekend and those regions are paired against regions hosted by seeded teams.
UCLA (Virginia)
Georgia Tech (Florida)
Cal State Fullerton (North Carolina)
Clemson (South Carolina)
Texas A&M (Florida State)
Oregon State (Vanderbilt)
Arizona State (Texas)
TCU (Rice)

#1 Virginia hosts Navy; St. Johns & East Carolina
UCLA hosts San Francisco; Irvine & Fresno

#2 FLORIDA hosts Manhattan; Jacksonville & Miami
Georgia Tech hosts Austin Peay; MISSISSIPPI STATE & Southern Miss

#3 North Carolina hosts Maine; James Madison & FIU
CS-Fullerton hosts Illinois; Kansas State and Stanford

#4 SOUTH CAROLINA hosts Georgia Southern; NC State & Stetson
Clemson hosts Sacred Heart; Coastal Carolina and Connecticut

#5 Florida State hosts Bethune-Cookman; ALABAMA & UCF
Texas A&M hosts Wright State; Seton Hall & Arizona

#6 VANDERBILT hosts Belmont; Troy & Oklahoma State
Oregon State hosts Arkansas-LR; GEORGIA & Creighton

#7 Texas hosts Princeton; Kent State & Texas State
Arizona State hosts New Mexico; Charlotte & ARKANSAS
#8 Rice hosts Alcorn State; California & Baylor
TCU hosts Oral Roberts; Dallas Baptist & Oklahoma

Seven SEC schools made the tournament and that is a good number. Neither Auburn nor LSU were far-and-away better than at-large teams from other conferences.

Seven ACC teams also made the field. However, two of their teams are hosting first round games indicating they had five teams in top-16. I don’t believe Clemson warrants this treatment but hey, they’ll lose early anyway

We may amend this with output from your guys, but I marked teams in blue that may have something to do with UT coaching search. I’m being realistic here and listed only the reasonable ones.

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There are always host teams that lose and I don&#8217;t recall a CWS when all seeded teams made it. (In 2001, Tennessee upset ECU to be the only team outside top-8 in Omaha)

Upset predictions in first round (host teams that will lose)
Georgia Tech
Clemson
TCU

National seeds that will not make it Omaha:
Virginia (big one)
Vanderbilt
Texas
 
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Here is the order the main candidates (the names we hear anyway) should be available

Louisville - Dan McDonnell ===========> Available now (not in tourney)
Troy- Bobby Pierce ==============> Done by 6/6
Coastal Carolina- Gary Gilmore =======> Done by 6/6
Oklahoma - Mike Bell (Assistant) ======> Done by 6/6
CS-Fullerton - Dave Serrano =========> Likely done by 6/13
South Carolina - Chad Holbrock =======> College World Series no later than 6/29

It is ironic, that Serrano (like CTR) could have his final games with current team at North Carolina. Greatly different expectations between CSF and WCU to say the least.
 
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u v a will win it all this year. went through a very tough acc tournament with no problems. mark it down, it's the cavs year !!!
 
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Rough night for Ga Tech. Makes me semi-sick though that Austin Peay is capable of putting out a team with 19 in-state guys on it that is capable of pulling that off.

SEC went 5-2 last night.
 
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We won yesterday and I fully expect us to beat Seton Hall tonight.
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3 seed Kent State up 5-2 on Texas after a grand slam by David Lyon. Happy to see the MAC representative doing work, but I can't say I'm surprised. Kent has some serious talent.
 
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Don't know about you guys but seeing Vandy so close to Omaha wants to make me puke....can't stand their program.....they'll win today to finally get to the CWS...ugh!
 
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TNVols58 said:
Don't know about you guys but seeing Vandy so close to Omaha wants to make me puke....can't stand their program.....they'll win today to finally get to the CWS...ugh!
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This is their last, best chance to get to Omaha.

As stated in prior years, everything was building to 2011 ad with the number of high draft picks it's now or never.

Yet, they still did not win the SEC despite all this talent.

Not being snide. But this is it for them.
 
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The Gators get out of the Bottom of the 7th but not before the MS Bulldogs tie the game at 2.
 
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Amazing Finish the MS Bulldogs hit a two run homer to beat the Gators, and force a game 3. The MS Bulldogs whatever undefeated streak the Gators had when leading after 6 innings.
Should be a excellent game 3. No doubt the ball was gone.
 
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Back to back home runs. 4-0

I bet Miss State's pitcher is feelin pretty good right now.
 
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Three run home run by piss state! Still have 0 outs in the top of the 4th.

4-3 Florida
 
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