{"id":17602,"date":"2022-06-07T09:11:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T13:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17602"},"modified":"2022-06-10T09:13:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T13:13:21","slug":"cws-regionals-recap-and-super-regionals-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17602","title":{"rendered":"CWS 2022: Regionals Recap and Super-Regionals preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick recap of the Regionals, which saw an astounding 9 of the 16 competitions head to the &#8220;extra&#8221; game.  An exciting post-season so far for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are ordered by the national seeds\/regional matchups.  So instead of doing them alphabetically or in order of national seed, they&#8217;re done 1-16, 8-9, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Resources\/links I use heavily during CWS time:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>D1baseball&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/d1baseball.com\/college-baseball-tournament-central\/\">tournament central page<\/a>, which has all the games in one place.<\/li><li>Top 25 lists according to d1baseball, baseballamerica, and usatoday Coaches poll.   <\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.warrennolan.com\/baseball\/2022\/rpi-live\">WarrenNolan&#8217;s RPI rankings<\/a> <\/li><li>Full <a href=\"https:\/\/d1baseball.com\/columns\/2022-ncaa-field-of-64-bracket\/\">Field of 64 at d1baseball.com<\/a> <\/li><li>Full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/news\/baseball\/article\/2022-05-30\/2022-ncaa-di-baseball-championship-bracket-announced\">field of 64 with some great data points at NCAA.com<\/a> <\/li><li>CWS tournament <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/news\/baseball\/article\/2022-05-28\/2022-college-baseball-conference-tournament-brackets-schedules-auto-bids\">resource page from NCAA.com<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Quick predictions for the 16 regionals, ordered by National Seed super Regional matchup.  <strong>Bold = winner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>#1 <strong>Tennessee <\/strong>had to dig deep to avoid going the extra game against Georgia Tech, but advanced.  The regional ended up chalk, but Campbell as a #3 seed got the early upset of GaTech.<\/li><li>#16 Georgia Southern was upset as expected by ACC&#8217;s <strong>Notre Dame<\/strong> and finished third behind them and Texas Tech in a clear indictment of the tournament seeding&#8217;s decision not to give Notre Dame the host site.<\/li><li>#8 <strong>East Carolina<\/strong> made it to the winner&#8217;s bracket but was stretched to the extra game by Coastal Carolina, who took out UVA to make it 1-3 in the end.  It didn&#8217;t matter: Coastal couldn&#8217;t repeat their magic from 2016 and lost in game 7.<\/li><li>#9 <strong>Texas <\/strong>advanced without losing a game, but it was 4th seed Air Force who made the regional final.  Bravo to the service academy for going that far and taking out a couple of baseball powerhouses.<\/li><li>#5 <strong>Texas A&amp;M<\/strong> takes advantage of a soft regional and advanced without losing a game.<\/li><li>#12 <strong>Louisville <\/strong>was upset early by #3 seed Michigan, but blew them out 20-1 to force the Monday game 7, where they held on for an 11-9 win.<\/li><li>#4 <strong>Virginia Tech<\/strong> cruised through its regional, taking out #3 Ivy winner Columbia in the final.<\/li><li>#13 Florida came back from a game down to force the Monday finisher with Oklahoma, while local team Liberty goes two-and-out.  In game 7, <strong>Oklahoma <\/strong>took out the host and advanced.<\/li><li>#3 <strong>Oregon State<\/strong> was stretched to the Monday finish by Vanderbilt, who lost their first game but blew out the competition to get to regional game 7.  There, Vandy&#8217;s luck ran out and Oregon State avoided the huge upset.<\/li><li>#14 <strong>Auburn <\/strong>battered its way to the title, winnings its games 19-7, 21-7, and 9-0, the last game of which was interrupted by rain.<\/li><li>#6 Miami won its opener, but them lost two straight to not even advance to the regional final.  Instead, a Monday game will decide between Ole Miss and Arizona in a battle of college baseball royalty.  The final game turned out to be a laugher, as <strong>Ole Miss<\/strong> destroyed Arizona 22-6 to move on.<\/li><li>#11 Southern Miss was beaten in the winner&#8217;s bracket by LSU, but fought back to force Monday game.  IN game 7, <strong>Southern Miss<\/strong> held on for a back and forth battle to win.<\/li><li>#7 Oklahoma State and <strong>Arkansas <\/strong>didn&#8217;t show a ton of defense en route to a monday final; Oklahoma State&#8217;s games were 10-5, 12-20, 29-15, and 14-10.  In the final game, Arkansas won with a more reasonable score of 7-3 to move on.<\/li><li>#10 <strong>UNC <\/strong>was stretched to a Monday game by #3 seed VCU.  However, UNC held on to advance.<\/li><li>#2 <strong>Stanford <\/strong>lost early to Texas State, but came back to force a Monday finish.  A concerning wobble for the #2 overall seed.  In that final, Stanford needed a captivating 9th inning come back to walk off the win.<\/li><li>#15 Maryland had to go extras to force the Monday finisher against Big East perennial powerhouse UConn.  There, <strong>UConn <\/strong>got the big win and moved on.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Fun facts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Not ONE #1 seed lost on day one.  That&#8217;s gotta be a first.<\/li><li>Highest Seed out: #6 Miami <\/li><li>Nine of the Sixteen regionals stretched to game seven.<\/li><li>Most dominant Regional win: Either Texas A&amp;M or Auburn.<\/li><li>Worst showing by #1 seed: Georgia Southern or Miami.  Probably Miami, the highest seed to lose.<\/li><li>Best showing by #4 Seed: Air Force Academy<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Super Regionals:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>#1 Tennessee hosts Notre Dame: Tennessee is on a run, though Notre Dame is the kind of senior team that can stretch them.  <\/li><li>#8 ECU hosts #9 Texas: I&#8217;m favoring the big12 school here; they are clicking.<\/li><li>#5 TAMU versus #12 Louisville: i think the SEC team has the advantage here.<\/li><li>#4 Virginia Tech vs Oklahoma: Tech may be the seed, but Oklahoma may be the better team.<\/li><li>#3 Oregon State vs #14 Auburn: I&#8217;m thinking Auburn has the advantage here.  I just don&#8217;t rate Pac12 teams in college baseball right now.<\/li><li>Ole Miss vs #11 Southern Miss: Love this all-Mississippi matchup.  Ole Miss is the SEC power, but they&#8217; have to go to their junior cousin to win.  <\/li><li>Arkansas vs #10 UNC: UNC is the seed and host, but Arkansas is the hot hand<\/li><li>#2 Stanford vs UConn; Uconn has to fly 3000 miles for this one; can they push the Pac12 champ?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Conference representation in the Super Regionals:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>SEC 5: Tennessee, TAMU, Auburn, Ole Miss, Arkansas<\/li><li>ACC 4: Notre Dame, Louisville, Virginia Tech, UNC<\/li><li>AAC: 1: ECU<\/li><li>C-USA: 1: Southern Miss<\/li><li>Big East: 1: UConn<\/li><li>Big12: 2: Texas, Oklahoma<\/li><li>Pac12: 2: Oregon State, Stanford<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As expected, heavy on the two big baseball conferneces &#8230; and the two Big12 teams are moving to the SEC soon.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Predictions: Tennessee, Texas, TAMU, Oklahoma, Auburn, Ole Miss, Arkansas, Stanford.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick recap of the Regionals, which saw an astounding 9 of the 16 competitions head to the &#8220;extra&#8221; game. An exciting post-season so far for sure. These are ordered by the national seeds\/regional matchups. So instead of doing them alphabetically or in order of national seed, they&#8217;re done 1-16, 8-9, etc. Resources\/links I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17602"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17614,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17602\/revisions\/17614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}