Do they still have that dumb**** format where you can go 0-2 and advance so long as you're a high seed or wear blue as your primary color?

Good. That was so idiotic, assume that was a Swofford contraption.

Nairo said:

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Do they still have that dumb**** format where you can go 0-2 and advance so long as you're a high seed or wear blue as your primary color?

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No: 16 teams with single elimination.
Seeds 1-4 get double bye
Seeds 5-8 get single bye

Must better format this one

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We will post the official bracket once released.

It's looking like State will play Duke on Tuesday with the winner facing UVA next. Certainly two winnable games.

I would imagine State runs out Hemric into Garino and Harris on Tuesday. You could then use Andrews, Nance, and I'd even say Consiglio on Wednesday given that the next matchup would be GT. Sell out to win two and solidify a tournament birth.

Would love to see Marohn get an inning to prepare for a regional, but wait and see on that front.

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GT might score 30 on whoever they end up facing.

Announcer yesterday said if we win and Virginia lost, we would be the 8 seed. Guess he was wrong.

pack95 said:

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Announcer yesterday said if we win and Virginia lost, we would be the 8 seed. Guess he was wrong.

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I heard them say depending of the outcome of the Stanford game we'd be either 9 or 10. There was no path to passing UVA. due to better overall record.

Glasswolf said:

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pack95 said:

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Announcer yesterday said if we win and Virginia lost, we would be the 8 seed. Guess he was wrong.

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I heard them say depending of the outcome of the Stanford game we'd be either 9 or 10. There was no path to passing UVA. due to better overall record.

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Budrovich did say several times that we could be the ,8, and then later in the game he said that their math had been wrong and we couldn't be the 8.

Glasswolf said:

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pack95 said:

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Announcer yesterday said if we win and Virginia lost, we would be the 8 seed. Guess he was wrong.

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I heard them say depending of the outcome of the Stanford game we'd be either 9 or 10. There was no path to passing UVA. due to better overall record.

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Probably not the worst thing to be the 9 rather than the 8.

Gives you another game to boost your RPI

wilmwolf said:

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Glasswolf said:

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pack95 said:

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Announcer yesterday said if we win and Virginia lost, we would be the 8 seed. Guess he was wrong.

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I heard them say depending of the outcome of the Stanford game we'd be either 9 or 10. There was no path to passing UVA. due to better overall record.

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Budrovich did say several times that we could be the ,8, and then later in the game he said that their math had been wrong and we couldn't be the 8.

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It did actually sound like he was correcting himself from something he said earlier

Glasswolf said:

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wilmwolf said:

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Glasswolf said:

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pack95 said:

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Announcer yesterday said if we win and Virginia lost, we would be the 8 seed. Guess he was wrong.

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I heard them say depending of the outcome of the Stanford game we'd be either 9 or 10. There was no path to passing UVA. due to better overall record.

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Budrovich did say several times that we could be the ,8, and then later in the game he said that their math had been wrong and we couldn't be the 8.

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It did actually sound like he was correcting himself from something he said earlier

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I had to switch to listening on Varsity so I didn't hear that. Thanks.

pack95 said:

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Glasswolf said:

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wilmwolf said:

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Glasswolf said:

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pack95 said:

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Announcer yesterday said if we win and Virginia lost, we would be the 8 seed. Guess he was wrong.

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I heard them say depending of the outcome of the Stanford game we'd be either 9 or 10. There was no path to passing UVA. due to better overall record.

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Budrovich did say several times that we could be the ,8, and then later in the game he said that their math had been wrong and we couldn't be the 8.

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It did actually sound like he was correcting himself from something he said earlier

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I had to switch to listening on Varsity so I didn't hear that. Thanks.

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I tuned in just in time to see unc make it 7-2. One of the few times I didn't have the tv synced to Andrew Sanders

Some challenging pitching scenarios for this week.

Andrews went 100 on Thursday
Consiglio went 86 on Friday
Nance went 93 on Saturday.

Based on that I would say
Tue - Hemric
Wed - Andrews
Thu - Consiglio - nance comes available out of pen this day

Kind of odd that we threw our best guy on Saturday heading into ACC tournament but I get we didn't want Nance against Decaro. But it effectively takes Nance out of event unless we advance deep.

Just curious what everyone's opinion is of the tournament format. Next to impossible to win having to play 5 straight days. Obviously, no way to carry through with limited pitching. I understand awarding the top teams but I'm of the opinion just to have the top 8 teams enter the tournament.

It takes 4 wins right
I would prefer the 16 format over just 8 teams. We wouldn't even be in the event if that was the case.

5 wins in 5 days is borderline impossible. Talk bout taxing a pitching staff.

The current format is miles ahead of the previous one, playing meaningless pool games when teams were trying to get their pitching ready for the NCAA tournament was dumb. It would be extremely difficult to win the current format without being top 8, almost impossible probably. Still a better format though.

I wasn't a big fan of the previous format, but I don't think this ones any better personally.

You could argue the previous format valued season performance as well because you were seeded in the pods based on your season performance. In that format, if you went 2-0 in your pod, you advanced. Once you advanced you were in a similar footing as everyone else with respect to pitching. In this format, teams ranked 9-16 have zero chance of winning this tourney. 8 of them are spending travel expenses to play one game, and the other 8 are hoping maybe a win gets them in the discussion for an NCAA bid. Not a fan.

If you are 9-16 you aren't supposed to win it. But a slim chance is better than no chance for those teams. Get hot swinging it and who knows.

If you don't like thr format blame conference expansion. Now way to field a conference tournament in baseball with this many team and college teams trusting so few pitchers in their staff.

Maybe go to 12 teams where top 4 have a bye. Still tough to win 4 in a row but still better than 5 days.

If only there was a tournament bracket format that could accommodate 16 teams without doing byes and double byes..

Oh, wait.. There is, and common sense folks have been using it for 100 years.

I'm on board with everyone having an even slate. 4 games to win it.

BigLefty24 said:

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If only there was a tournament bracket format that could accommodate 16 teams without doing byes and double byes..

Oh, wait.. There is, and common sense folks have been using it for 100 years.

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The top teams who you know warned that seed don't want to blow out their staff playing in a low value tournament that ends a few days before the real tournament starts. I mean why don't they do that in basketball where there is no price to be paid by playing games like there is in baseball.

That's stupid.

They'd be playing the same number of games as they are now, outside of the top 4 seeds. The same number of games they played under pod play format. And only two teams would be playing four games.

Agreed. If you play 4 games then you have to play your traditional midweek starter and relievers

Or, just move the damn start of the NCAA tourney back a few days and let the whole country's pitching staff the chance to breathe and recover.

Or the conferences could start their conference slate a week earlier and give all their teams a chance to rest leading up to the NCAA tourney.

The ACC has made the ACC Tournament this big convuluted mess for 20 years when it doesn't need to be. Seed the teams 1-16, and play a 16 team single elimination tournament like a normal damn tournament director would do. Top seeds get the benefit of playing lowest seeded teams in early rounds, which rewards them for their regular season finish. Lower seeded teams get the chance to add a marquee win early that could help propel them into an NCAA bid.

8 first round losers play one game.
4 second round losers play two games
2 semifinal losers play 3 games
Two championship final teams play four games.


This ain't rocket science.