{"id":13898,"date":"2017-06-07T09:24:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T13:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=13898"},"modified":"2017-06-08T14:24:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T18:24:21","slug":"2017-cws-tournament-regional-results-super-regional-pairings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=13898","title":{"rendered":"2017 CWS tournament: Regional Results, Super-Regional Pairings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/CWS-2017_calendar-narrow.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13886\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13886\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/CWS-2017_calendar-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"CWS-2017_calendar-narrow\" width=\"234\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a recap of our CWS coverage so far for 2017:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=13362\">College Baseball 2017\u00a0Kickoff<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=13884\">Field of 64 announcement<\/a>\u00a0with Regional predictions and highlights of top-end draft prospects.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=11114\">2017 Draft Preview<\/a> with coverage of\u00a0Local College-age eligible players of note (publishing closer to the draft)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now we\u2019re through the Regionals and the field has been winnowed from 64 to just 16.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll review the 16 regionals in order of the larger bracket. \u00a0<strong>Bold<\/strong> is the host and <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Bolded<\/strong> <strong>Red<\/strong> <\/span>is the winner.\u00a0 We\u2019ll also highlight significant players and\/or guys who are big names in the upcoming draft as we get to them.<\/p>\n<p>It was a crazy set of regionals; by Sunday night only 6 of the 16 brackets were decided; a slew of regionals were forced to monday games (two weather delays involved). \u00a0And we saw one of the biggest upsets in recent memory. \u00a0Read on.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Regional Recaps<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the #1 <strong>Oregon State <\/strong>regional, Oregon State held serve easily while Yale scored the unlikely upset over Nebraska in the 2\/3 game. \u00a0In the winners bracket game, Oregon State blitzed Yale 11-0 behind\u00a0<strong>Luke Heimlich<\/strong>&#8216;s 7ip-2hit performance. \u00a0Holy Cross sent home Nebraska in the loser&#8217;s bracket, cementing their status as a drastically over-seeded team from the Big-10. \u00a0In the regional final, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Oregon State<\/strong><\/span> again crushed Yale 8-1 to cement their status as the #1 team in the land and advance to Super Regionals.<br \/>\nIn the\u00a0#16 <strong>Clemson\u00a0<\/strong>regional, Vanderbilt crushed an over-ranked St. John&#8217;s team in the opener (an upset not by seeding but by ranking) while Clemson snuck by UNC-Greensboro. \u00a0In the losers bracket, St. Johns was sent home 2-and-out by UNCG while Vanderbilt blitzed by Clemson 9-4. \u00a0Clemson fought their way out of the loser&#8217;s bracket and then forced the Monday decider with a 6-0 win over Vandy. \u00a0In the do-or-die game though, Clemson never got started and <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Vanderbilt<\/strong> <\/span>advanced 8-0.<\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0#8 <strong>Stanford\u00a0<\/strong>regional (which started a day early), both top teams blasted inferior competition to setup a Stanford-Cal State Fullerton winner&#8217;s bracket game. \u00a0 In that game, Fullerton won easily to put themselves into the driver&#8217;s seat. \u00a0Sacramento State became the first team eliminated thanks to this regional starting a day early to placate BYU. \u00a0Stanford made their way back to the title game, but were beaten again by Fullerton, making <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Cal State Fullerton<\/strong><\/span> the upset winner and the first team to advance.<br \/>\nIn the\u00a0#9 <strong>Long Beach State<\/strong>\u00a0regional, Texas beat UCLA for the fourth time this season (beating UCLA&#8217;s ace and likely 1st rounder\u00a0<strong>Griffin Canning<\/strong> along the way), while host Long Beach State beat SDSU easily. \u00a0In the winner&#8217;s bracket game, Texas&#8217;\u00a0<strong>Morgan Cooper<\/strong> (the Nats 2014 34th round pick) threw a solid game and the Longhorns got into LBSU&#8217;s bullpen for an extra inning&#8217;s victory. \u00a0UCLA went 2-and-out in the loser&#8217;s bracket game; yet another example in SDSU of a #4 seed not finishing 4th. \u00a0Long Beach got back to the deciding game and took one from Texas, forcing the Monday finish. \u00a0There, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Long Beach State<\/strong><\/span> got 2 runs early and made them stick, advancing through the loser&#8217;s bracket and setting up an in-conference matchup with Fullerton.<\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0#5 <strong>Texas Tech<\/strong> regional, the hosts won easily while Sam Houston state took it from Arizona in a 2\/3 seed upset. \u00a0TT took out Sam Houston easily in the winner&#8217;s bracket. \u00a0However the pesky #3 seed Sam Houston took out Arizona again, then took a game from TTU to force the Monday decider. \u00a0There, the amazing happened, with tiny <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sam Houston State<\/strong><\/span> beating the #5 national seed again and becoming the 2nd most unlikely regional winner this year.<br \/>\nIn the\u00a0#12 <strong>Florida State<\/strong> regional, Auburn scored the slight upset over UCF in the opener and then Tennessee Tech took out Florida State for 2 upsets in a row. \u00a0Auburn won the winner&#8217;s bracket game while FSU kept their hopes alive in the elimination game. \u00a0Florida State grinded their way back to the final and then took a walk-off win over Auburn to force the Monday decider. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Florida State<\/strong><\/span> made the decider a non-issue, dominating Auburn and winning 6-0 to advance.<\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0#4 <strong>LSU<\/strong> regional, both top seeds won in an offense-minded regional, scoring double digits. \u00a0The region continued to go chalk with both seeded teams again winning and again scoring in the double digits. \u00a0Rice beat out SELA to get to the regional final, but there <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>LSU<\/strong> <\/span>got 8 shutout innings from its #3 starter\u00a0<strong>Eric Walker<\/strong> and they advanced to the super-regionals.<br \/>\nIn the\u00a0#13 <strong>Southern Miss<\/strong> regional, the host won a barn-burner to avoid a first round upset against Illinois-Chicago while South Alabama upset SEC power Mississippi State. \u00a0 Southern Miss held-serve to advance to the final, while Mississippi State got revenge against South Alabama to reach the regional final. \u00a0There, the SEC power <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Mississippi State<\/strong><\/span> took two from Southern Miss to advance.<\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0#2 <strong>UNC<\/strong> regional, Davidson took it to upper 1st rounder\u00a0<strong>J.B. Bukauskas<\/strong> and knocked him out early, then held on for the day&#8217;s biggest upset over UNC. \u00a0Meanwhile FGCU easily topped Michigan to setup a very weird winner&#8217;s bracket game. \u00a0Bukauskas&#8217; final collegiate performance (coupled with his struggles in the ACC tournament) may have cost him draft spots; lots of mocks have him going 6th overall, but now I think he falls. \u00a0In the winner&#8217;s bracket game, Davidson again defied the odds, taking out FGCU while UNC salvaged some hope with an easy 8-1 win over the over-seeded Michigan team (again showing why the Big-10 did not deserve as many teams in the CWS as they got). \u00a0 UNC made it back to the regional final, but their bats came up empty as <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Davidson<\/strong> <\/span>shocked the baseball world and took the regional 2-1. \u00a0The most amazing thing I heard about Davidson this week? \u00a0They only gave out three (3) scholarships. \u00a0Three! \u00a0UNC probably has 3 full-rides just in its rotation.<br \/>\nIn the\u00a0#15 <strong>Houston<\/strong> regional, both top seeds were upset, with TAMU and Iowa topping Baylor and Houston respectively. \u00a0And Iowa did it without any input from their cleanup slugger\u00a0<strong>Jake Adams<\/strong> (who had 27 homers this season). \u00a0Houston took out some aggression on Baylor in the elimination game, winning 17-3, while TAMU (who were supposedly one of the last four teams in) took the winner&#8217;s bracket game to hold the driver&#8217;s seat in this regional. \u00a0Houston made it back to the title game with a win over Iowa, but couldn&#8217;t take out <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Texas A&amp;M<\/strong><\/span>, who won the regional and likely won the right to host a super-regional despite not being a regional host.<\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0#7 <strong>Louisville<\/strong> regional, both top seeds advanced with ease (Oklahoma and Louisville). \u00a0Louisville destroyed Oklahoma 11-1 in the winner&#8217;s bracket game behind top-pick\u00a0<strong>Brendan McCay<\/strong>&#8216;s 6 1\/3 innings of one-run ball (to go along with his batting clean-up as perhaps the best two-way college player we&#8217;ve seen in a while). \u00a0Virginia&#8217;s Radford went two-and out as the #4 seed. \u00a0Xavier blitzed Oklahoma in the loser&#8217;s bracket final, but then couldn&#8217;t hang with Louisville in the regional decider, losing 8-7 as <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Louisville<\/strong> <\/span>advances.<br \/>\nIn the\u00a0#10 <strong>Kentucky<\/strong> regional, Kentucky survived a late rally to top Ohio in the opener while under-seeded NC State topped Indiana in a 2\/3 seed upset. \u00a0NC State showed why they were underseeded as a #3 by taking out the host in the winner&#8217;s bracket game. \u00a0Kentucky made it back to the regional final, and took a game from NC State to force the extra decider. \u00a0There, hand it to\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Kentucky<\/span><\/strong>, they got the win they needed and advanced to setup a great in-state super-regional.<\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0#6 <strong>TCU<\/strong> regional, all games were delayed a game due to rain to start. \u00a0Both top seeds advanced, with UVA getting a strong performance from #2 starter\u00a0<strong>Derek Casey<\/strong> over the tough Dallas Baptist team. \u00a0In the winner&#8217;s bracket game, UVA&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Daniel Lynch<\/strong> got hit early and their hitters could do nothing with TCU&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Jared Janczak<\/strong> and they lost 5-1. \u00a0UVA has to face DBU again, as DBU eliminated #4 seed Central Connecticut in the loser&#8217;s bracket. \u00a0In the loser&#8217;s bracket final rematch between UVA and DBU, UVA&#8217;s thin pitching staff was finally exposed, giving up 9 runs in the first two innings (<strong>Evan Sperling<\/strong> could not record an out as the starter)\u00a0and never getting all the way back. \u00a0It didn&#8217;t matter much, as <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>TCU<\/strong> <\/span>destroyed DBU in the final to advance and show why they were the consensus #1 ranked team pre-season.<br \/>\nIn the\u00a0#11 <strong>Arkansas<\/strong> regional, the host won easily while the day&#8217;s best game featured Missouri State getting a do-or-die walkoff 2-run homer to top Oklahoma State. \u00a0Missouri State showed they belong by upsetting the hosts in the winner&#8217;s bracket game while Oral Roberts pounded OK-State in the elimination game. \u00a0Arkansas made it back to the regional final, taking an 11-10 wild game from Missouri State to force the extra decider on Monday. \u00a0There, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Missouri State<\/strong><\/span> gritted out the win over Arkansas to advance.<\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0#3 <strong>Florida<\/strong> regional, the hosts and South Florida easily advanced to hold serve against lower-seeded competition. \u00a0The region continued chalk with Florida\u00a0scoring 4 in the 12th to ease past South Florida (Florida threw their ace\u00a0<strong>Alex Faedo<\/strong> in this game; he delivered with 7 innings of one run ball). \u00a0Bethune Cookman advanced out of the losers&#8217;s bracket and promptly took a game off of Florida, forcing the extra regional decider Monday. \u00a0There, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Florida<\/strong> <\/span>outlasted tiny Bethune to advance as expected.<br \/>\nIn the\u00a0#14 <strong>Wake Forest<\/strong> regional, the two top seeds both battered Maryland teams UofMaryland and UMBC. \u00a0In the loser&#8217;s bracket, UMaryland committed some Terrapin-on-Terrapin crime by destroying them 16-2, while \u00a0Wake held on for a win over WVA in the winner&#8217;s bracket. \u00a0WVA took advantage of Maryland&#8217;s thin pitching corps to advance to the regional final, but lost 12-8 as <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Wake Forest<\/strong><\/span> advanced.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Predictions versus Actuals<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=13884\">My Predictions<\/a>:\u00a0Oregon State, Vanderbilt, CS-Fullerton, Long Beach State, Texas Tech, Florida State, LSU, Mississippi State, UNC, TAMU, Louisville, Kentucky, UVA, Arkansas, Florida, Wake Forest.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Actuals<\/span>; Oregon State, Vanderbilt, CS-Fullerton, Long Beach State, Sam Houston, Florida State, Mississippi State, LSU, Davidson, Tamu, Louisville, Kentucky, TCU, Missouri State, Florida and Wake.<\/p>\n<p>I got 12 of 16 right. \u00a0I missed on Davidson and Sam Houston State (like every one else), but over-thought the TCU\/UVA matchup, forgetting how good TCU was, and missed on the Arkansas\/Missouri State matchup.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Summary of Regionals statistically<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">9 of 16 hosts advanced, including 5 of 8 National seeds. \u00a0National Seeds losing: #2 UNC, \u00a0#5 Texas Tech, #8 Stanford.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>3 first time Super-Regional participants; Davidson, who was also a first time REGIONAL participant. \u00a0Sam Houston State. \u00a0Kentucky is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/story\/_\/id\/19559067\/ncaa-baseball-tournament-super-regionals-feature-history-rivalry\">also a 1st timer<\/a> despite being seeded.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">7 = number of regionals forced into the \u201cextra\u201d deciding game: Vanderbilt\/Clemson, Long Beach\/Texas, Texas Tech\/Sam \u00a0Houston, FSU\/Auburn, Kentucky\/NC State, Arkansas\/Missouri State, Florida\/Bethune-Cookman.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">9 number one seeds, 4 number two seeds, 2 number three seeds, and 1 number four seeds advance to the super regionals. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>7 number of #4 seeds who didn\u2019t finish 4th in their regional; Holy Cross, UNC-G, SDSU, Tennessee Tech, Davidson, Iowa, Oral Roberts. \u00a0That&#8217;s great balance.<\/li>\n<li>Zero hosts that went 2-and-out this year.<\/li>\n<li>1 of the regionals went pure chalk (Wake Forest). \u00a0That&#8217;s either a great testament to the balance of the tournament, or a real indictment of the seeding of #2s versus #3 teams.<\/li>\n<li>#4 over #1 openers: Davidson over UNC, Tennessee Tech over Florida State, Iowa over Houston<\/li>\n<li>Most surprising regional winner: Davidson easily, followed by Sam Houston State.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Conference Breakdowns of the teams in the Super Regionals<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SEC: LSU, TAMU, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, Kentucky, Florida<\/li>\n<li>Big12: TCU<\/li>\n<li>ACC: Louisville, Wake Forest, Florida State<\/li>\n<li>Pac12: Oregon State<\/li>\n<li>Big West: Cal State Fullerton, Long Beach State<\/li>\n<li>Atlantic 10: Davidson<\/li>\n<li>Southland: Sam Houston State<\/li>\n<li>Missouri Valley: Missouri State<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>9 of the 16 super regional teams from the two power conferences ACC and SEC. \u00a0The Big12 was the <a href=\"http:\/\/warrennolan.com\/baseball\/2017\/conferencerpi\">#1 ranked RPI conference<\/a> and placed 7 teams into the tourney, but just one advanced, perhaps an indictment of these conference RPI rankings in general. \u00a0But, with 8 conferences represented overall, there&#8217;s good spread. \u00a0Only the Big10 really didn&#8217;t show up, putting 5 teams in the tourney and faring horribly. \u00a0It seems like this is a recurring theme; Big10 gets 5 teams in and does nothing while higher ranked conferences like the AAC and C-USA put in fewer teams (3 and 2 respectively). \u00a0I doubt anything will change in the future; the committee seems to fall in love with wins (not one eligible team with 40+ wins missed the tourney) and with marginal big-conference teams in lieu of better teams from smaller conferences .<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Super Regional Matchups<\/strong><\/span>: \u00a0the higher ranked team is the host in each case.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">#1 Oregon State vs Vanderbilt<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Davidson vs TAMU<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">#3 Florida \u00a0vs #14 Wake Forest<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">#4 LSU vs Mississippi State<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Sam Houston State v #12 Florida State<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">#6 TCU v Missouri State<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li>#7 Louisville v #10 Kentucky<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cal State Fullerton vs #9 Long Beach State<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Super Regional Thoughts<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hard not to pick Oregon State, who looks the part of a #1 ranked team. \u00a0Also hard to pick Davidson to continue their upset run, so I&#8217;ll go with TAMU based on experience.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll take Florida over Wake, despite Wake&#8217;s being rather under-rated. \u00a0They lost only two weekend series allyear, both away to top teams. \u00a0But Florida has the ace in Faedo and the cache.<\/p>\n<p>A SEC rematch between LSU and Mississippi State might be a laugher; LSU swept MSU on their field in their weekend series earlier this year, and LSU will host. \u00a0Look for two quick wins for the National power.<\/p>\n<p>As with Davidson, its hard to give Sam Houston a shot at the veteran Florida State team.<\/p>\n<p>The in-state Kentucky matchup between Louisville and Kentucky is a good one; they met twice in mid-week games and split them, but those games (both throwing mid-week starters) aren&#8217;t a great predictor. \u00a0I like Louisville&#8217;s pitching and experience here.<\/p>\n<p>The final matchup, between two Big West teams, seems easy enough to call on paper: Long Beach State and CS-Fullerton met 6 times this year and Long Beach won five of them. \u00a0I&#8217;m guessing LBSU hosts, where they swept Fullerton earlier this year. \u00a0I think the Dirtbags should advance easily.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Super Regional Star Power<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lots of top-end draft picks will be playing this weekend, just ahead of the MLB draft which starts on 6\/12\/17. \u00a0By Super Regional:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oregon State\/Vanderbilt: the likely #1 overall draft pick\u00a0<strong>Kyle Wright<\/strong>, also <strong>Kendall<\/strong>, plus Oregon State&#8217;s two dominant starters <strong>Heimlich<\/strong> and <strong>Jake Thompson<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Davidson\/TAMU; none really.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Florida\/Wake Forest: <strong>Alex Faedo<\/strong> mostly.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">LSU\/Mississippi State: <strong>Alex Lange<\/strong> for LSU, <strong>Brendan Rooker<\/strong> for MSU.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Sam Houston State\/Florida State; none really, despite FSU&#8217;s ranking.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">TCU\/Missouri State; MSU&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Jake Burger<\/strong>; TCU is led more by under-classmen but does have\u00a0<strong>Evan Skoug<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>who might get drafted relatively highly.<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Louisville\/Kentucky; Louisville of course led by possible #1 overall pick\u00a0<strong>Brendan McKay<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cal State Fullerton\/Long Beach State; no 1st round notables.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/news\/article\/235028632\/ncaa-super-regionals-feature-draft-prospects\/\">MLB.com has a nice summar<\/a>y with all the above names plus more.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CWS Predictions<\/strong>: Oregon State, TAMU, Florida, LSU, Florida State, TCU, Louisville, Long Beach State.<\/p>\n<p>Or, in the CWS groupings: Oregon State, CS Fullerton, FSU, LSU in one bracket, and TAMU, Louisville, TCU and Florida in the other.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;d be a great CWS field.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>College CWS tournament references<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>d1baseball.com&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.d1baseball.com\/daily\/today.htm\">daily scoreboard<\/a> is my go-to link<\/li>\n<li>d1baseball&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/d1baseball.com\/regional-tournament-central\/\">Tourney Central<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Baseball America&#8217;s\u00a0College coverage home page<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegebaseballdaily.com\/\">CollegeBaseballDaily.com<\/a> has coverage as well.<\/li>\n<li>CollegeBaseballCentral.com has coverage as well.<\/li>\n<li>Ncaa.com&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/interactive-bracket\/baseball\/d1\/2017\">interactive full 64-team bracket<\/a> for 2017<\/li>\n<li>NCAA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/stats\/baseball\/d1\/current\/individual\/200\">Individual player stats<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Warren Nolan.com&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrennolan.com\/baseball\/2017\/index\">College Baseball RPI<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Warren Nolan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/warrennolan.com\/baseball\/2017\/conferencerpi\">Conference RPI rankings<\/a> for 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a recap of our CWS coverage so far for 2017: College Baseball 2017\u00a0Kickoff Field of 64 announcement\u00a0with Regional predictions and highlights of top-end draft prospects. 2017 Draft Preview with coverage of\u00a0Local College-age eligible players of note (publishing closer to the draft) Now we\u2019re through the Regionals and the field has been winnowed from 64 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