https://d1baseball.com/top-stories/2023-d1baseball-projected-field-of-64/

#2 seed in Knoxville with #2 national seed Tennessee

Not a great spot obviously. Give me Greenville or College Park. Hosting is probably a reach given our pitching questions, both roles and health of starters. As we saw last year, just get in at a reasonable spot (i.e, not one of the top 2-3 seeds). Anything can happen.

Don't get the Wake love. No 4 overall seed???

Isn't this the same team that went 2-and-'que in one of the easiest regionals last year, at Maryland....and needed a series W over us just to make the tourney?

castlewood107 said:

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Not a great spot obviously. Give me Greenville or College Park. Hosting is probably a reach given our pitching questions, both roles and health of starters. As we saw last year, just get in at a reasonable spot (i.e, not one of the top 2-3 seeds). Anything can happen.

Don't get the Wake love. No 4 overall seed???

Isn't this the same team that went 2-and-'que in one of the easiest regionals last year, at Maryland....and needed a series W over us just to make the tourney?

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my bad castle, I didn't realize that Wake has NOT updated their roster for the 2023 season for some stupid reason. You might be right to have some questions.


They lost Turconi and Tinsman which were some big bats from that lineup.

castlewood107 said:

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Not a great spot obviously. Give me Greenville or College Park. Hosting is probably a reach given our pitching questions, both roles and health of starters. As we saw last year, just get in at a reasonable spot (i.e, not one of the top 2-3 seeds). Anything can happen.

Don't get the Wake love. No 4 overall seed???

Isn't this the same team that went 2-and-'que in one of the easiest regionals last year, at Maryland....and needed a series W over us just to make the tourney?

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Highfill and Whitaker are healthy but will be used sparingly early on. We have hitting. Always have. We will have power similar to the 2021 team. Power will come from several players, not just 1.

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castlewood107 said:

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Not a great spot obviously. Give me Greenville or College Park. Hosting is probably a reach given our pitching questions, both roles and health of starters. As we saw last year, just get in at a reasonable spot (i.e, not one of the top 2-3 seeds). Anything can happen.

Don't get the Wake love. No 4 overall seed???

Isn't this the same team that went 2-and-'que in one of the easiest regionals last year, at Maryland....and needed a series W over us just to make the tourney?

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They quite literally return everyone from their team last year. The entire lineup plus all 3 weekend starters come back for them so I get them having some hype.

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They're so dang young too. I'm not a fan of Wake, but I can't help but like Tommy Hawke.

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CLTWolf said:

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castlewood107 said:

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Not a great spot obviously. Give me Greenville or College Park. Hosting is probably a reach given our pitching questions, both roles and health of starters. As we saw last year, just get in at a reasonable spot (i.e, not one of the top 2-3 seeds). Anything can happen.

Don't get the Wake love. No 4 overall seed???

Isn't this the same team that went 2-and-'que in one of the easiest regionals last year, at Maryland....and needed a series W over us just to make the tourney?

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They quite literally return everyone from their team last year. The entire lineup plus all 3 weekend starters come back for them so I get them having some hype.

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They're so dang young too. I'm not a fan of Wake, but I can't help but like Tommy Hawke.

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He's like 4'9 but plays like he's 6'4.


Also, I'm totally and completely wrong on this one. Wake lost dudes from last year, I just didn't realize they haven't updated their roster. How in the fk you not gonna have your roster updated yet!?

My bad. So maybe wondering about Wake isn't so misguided. haha

#2 seed in Columbia regional with #6 national seed South Carolina

https://d1baseball.com/top-stories/2023-midseason-field-of-64-projections/

#2 seed in Columbia, SC with #5 national seed South Carolina

https://d1baseball.com/projections/d1baseball-field-of-64-projections-week-10/

NCAA Division I Baseball -- RPI Needs Report

http://www.boydsworld.com/baseball/rpi/rpineeds.html

North Carolina State

Remaining: 9 home, 6 road, 0 neutral
Current RPI: 28
ROWP: 0.509

Top 45:

3 home wins, 6 road wins
4 home wins, 5 road wins
5 home wins, 4 road wins
6 home wins, 3 road wins
7 home wins, 2 road wins
8 home wins, 1 road wins
9 home wins, 0 road wins

Top 32:

6 home wins, 5 road wins
7 home wins, 4 road wins
8 home wins, 3 road wins
9 home wins, 2 road wins

Top 16:

9 home wins, 5 road wins

Top 8:

No way to reach the threshold.

LAST FIVE IN: Southern California, Georgia, TCU, Maryland, Virginia Tech
FIRST FIVE OUT: Auburn, Kansas State, Rutgers, North Carolina, Texas State

https://d1baseball.com/projections/d1baseball-field-of-64-projections-week-11/

#3 seed in Columbia, SC regional
South Carolina #3 national seed
Campbell
NC State
Army

Nope…. That's no good. Don't want to be in Columbia with SC and Campbell.

Wolfer79 said:

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TraCha4 said:

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Nope…. That's no good. Don't want to be in Columbia with SC and Campbell.

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as we learned last year

you can play your way out of a bad seed, you can't play your way out of no seed

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Yep I'll take anything at this point.

Without looking, I think we were #33 RPI last year and got left out. Have to improve that conference record. Hopefully we can make some hay over the next few weeks.

Our SOS and OOC SOS are much, much better than last year, at least as of last night. Really though, I try to not even compare to last year, that was a hose job. Just win more than you lose down the closing stretch. There is always a ton of movement week to week in baseball, just control what you can.

wilmwolf80 said:

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Our SOS and OOC SOS are much, much better than last year, at least as of last night. Really though, I try to not even compare to last year, that was a hose job. Just win more than you lose down the closing stretch. There is always a ton of movement week to week in baseball, just control what you can.

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The Citadel is 217th in RPI. It has to be a sweep this weekend.

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wilmwolf80 said:

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Our SOS and OOC SOS are much, much better than last year, at least as of last night. Really though, I try to not even compare to last year, that was a hose job. Just win more than you lose down the closing stretch. There is always a ton of movement week to week in baseball, just control what you can.

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The Citadel is 217th in RPI. It has to be a sweep this weekend.

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Might be better off if a game or two gets rained out.

Cancel the series. Kidding (maybe)

metcalfmafia said:

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Cancel the series. Kidding (maybe)

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some bubble teams have done that in previous seasons

not in Baseball America's April 26th projections

It's still too early to really get into the tournament bubble, but last week's results certainly shook up the bubble race. Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee landed huge sweeps in SEC play, opening clear paths for both teams to at-large bids. Clemson and Notre Dame made similar moves in ACC play. On the flip side, Louisiana-Lafayette, Michigan State, Mississippi State, Missouri and North Carolina State all suffered significant setbacks to their bubble hopes.

Last Four In
Northeastern
UC Santa Barbara
Georgia
Old Dominion

First Four Out
Clemson
Xavier
Auburn
Georgia Southern

Next Four Out
Oklahoma
North Carolina State
Rutgers
Elon

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2023-ncaa-tournament-projected-field-of-64-42623/

Boyds World

http://www.boydsworld.com/baseball/rpi/rpineeds.html


North Carolina State

Remaining: 8 home, 6 road, 0 neutral
Current RPI: 24
ROWP: 0.496

Top 45:

3 home wins, 6 road wins
4 home wins, 5 road wins
5 home wins, 3 road wins
6 home wins, 2 road wins
7 home wins, 1 road wins
8 home wins, 0 road wins

Top 32:

5 home wins, 6 road wins
6 home wins, 5 road wins
7 home wins, 3 road wins
8 home wins, 2 road wins

Top 16:

7 home wins, 6 road wins
8 home wins, 5 road wins

Top 8:

No way to reach the threshold

warren nolan

https://www.warrennolan.com/baseball/2023/conf-prediction?conference=ACC

current rpi 24
26-14, 8-12

projected final rpi 25
38-16, 15-14

Crap

Just win the next game.

AT-LARGE LADDER:
Last five in to last five out, from strongest to weakest:

60. NC State

#3 seed in Dallas
#15 national seed Dallas Baptist
Texas
NC State
Sam Houston

https://d1baseball.com/projections/d1baseball-field-of-64-projections-week-12/
https://d1baseball.com/projections/d1baseball-field-of-64-projections-week-12/

D1Baseball Field of 64 Projections: Week 13
TOP STORIES D1 Baseball Staff - May 10, 2023

https://d1baseball.com/top-stories/d1baseball-field-of-64-projections-week-13/

AT-LARGE LADDER:
Last five in to last five out, from strongest to weakest:

60. NC State
61. Texas Tech
62. UTSA
63. Texas State
64. Troy

Here are our postseason overall field changes from last week:

IN: Texas State and UNC Wilmington (UNCW was moved to the automatic bid for the Colonial)

#3 seed in Conway regional
Coastal Carolina #12 national seed

The SEC has the most projected bids with 11, and all three bubble teams Auburn, Texas A&M and Georgia strengthened their positions over the past week. The ACC is next with 9, followed by the Pac-12 (five), Big 12 (five), Sun Belt (four) and Big Ten (three).

If we lose 2 out of 3 vs UNC and win 2 out of 3 vs Pitt (basically going .500 here out), are we out or still think have a shot with good acct resume? Last year we made the finals and still got left out.

packman34 said:

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If we lose 2 out of 3 vs UNC and win 2 out of 3 vs Pitt (basically going .500 here out), are we out or still think have a shot with good acct resume? Last year we made the finals and still got left out.

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Probably out. If we lose 2 out of 3 to UNC we might be done no matter what happens after that. We would need to sweep Pitt for sure to get back in the conversation.

matracey said:

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packman34 said:

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If we lose 2 out of 3 vs UNC and win 2 out of 3 vs Pitt (basically going .500 here out), are we out or still think have a shot with good acct resume? Last year we made the finals and still got left out.

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Probably out. If we lose 2 out of 3 to UNC we might be done no matter what happens after that. We would need to sweep Pitt for sure to get back in the conversation.

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Ughh Hate to hear that. Man we had a brutal schedule this year but that series where we got swept by Clemson, really will be the one series we look back on and say we blew it right there.

packman34 said:

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matracey said:

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packman34 said:

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If we lose 2 out of 3 vs UNC and win 2 out of 3 vs Pitt (basically going .500 here out), are we out or still think have a shot with good acct resume? Last year we made the finals and still got left out.

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Probably out. If we lose 2 out of 3 to UNC we might be done no matter what happens after that. We would need to sweep Pitt for sure to get back in the conversation.

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Ughh Hate to hear that. Man we had a brutal schedule this year but that series where we got swept by Clemson, really will be the one series we look back on and say we blew it right there.

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Losing 2 out 3 to UNC and then sweeping Pitt would get us to 14-15 overall in the ACC and only 4-6 in ACC series. It would be an eerily similar resume to last year but our non conference and RPI are much stronger this year so that may get us in. I don't think the ACC tournament will matter unless we win it as shown last year with getting to the ACC finals and still being left out.

Take 2 out of 3 from UNC and sweep Pitt and that puts us at 15-14 ACC record and 5-5 in ACC series. Combine that with our RPI that puts us in.

Longest avg HR distance this season, min 5 HR:

Ronald Acuña Jr.: 437 ft
Juan Soto: 428 ft
Ezequiel Duran: 428 ft
Blake Sabol: 420 ft

record for a season under Statcast (2015), min 25 HR: 2022 C.J. Cron, 426 ft -- who hit 22 of 29 HR at home at Coors Field https://t.co/jIIaaCde7i

— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) May 17, 2023

NC State out

AT-LARGE LADDER:
Last four in, first four out, from strongest to weakest:

61. UC Irvine
62. Oklahoma
63. Arizona State
64. TCU
CUTOFF
65. Texas State
66. Georgia Tech
67. Rutgers
68. Louisiana

D1Baseball Field of 64 Projections: May 22
PROJECTIONS D1 Baseball Staff - May 22, 2023

https://d1baseball.com/projections/d1baseball-field-of-64-projections-may-22/

AT-LARGE LADDER:
Last four in, first four out, from strongest to weakest:

61. Arizona State
62. Notre Dame
63. Oklahoma
64. NC State
CUTOFF
65. Texas State
66. Elon
67. UTSA
68. Cal State Fullerton

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