{"id":6925,"date":"2013-06-12T08:21:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T12:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=6925"},"modified":"2013-06-12T08:21:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T12:21:55","slug":"cws-super-regional-results-and-cws-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=6925","title":{"rendered":"CWS Super Regional Results and CWS Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick look at the College Baseball Super Regionals, which finished up on 6\/11\/13 due to the crazy rain the east coast has seen.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Previous Links on the CWS this year<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My original Field-of-64 thoughts\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=6755\">are here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>My Regional review and super-regional preview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=6839\">is here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>My favorite no-frills just data College Baseball site is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.d1baseball.com\/\">d1baseball.com<\/a>, where I go for all the results<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Super-Regional Results<\/span><\/strong> (in the order in which these teams line up for the CWS)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">#<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1 <strong>UNC<\/strong><\/span> d #16 South Carolina<\/span><\/span>: UNC looked like a vulnerable #1 seed after getting blown out 8-0 to force a 3rd Super Regional game, but squeaked out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goheels.com\/\/ViewContent.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3350&amp;CONTENT_ID=772846\">5-4 victory<\/a> on \u00a0tuesday to become the last team to advance and complete the CWS field.<\/li>\n<li>#9 <strong>NC State<\/strong> defeated Rice: NC State rocks some 1980&#8217;s style uniforms and squeaks past Rice in 2 straight to punch its CWS ticket.<\/li>\n<li>#12 <strong>UCLA <\/strong>defeated\u00a0#5 Cal State Fullerton: UCLA wins a tight \u00a0regional in 2 straight to advance.<\/li>\n<li>#4 <strong>LSU<\/strong> defeated\u00a0Oklahoma: LSU gets a win over 1st round draftee <strong>Jonathan Grey<\/strong> and then blitzes Oklahoma in the second game to advance.<\/li>\n<li>#11 <strong>Mississippi State<\/strong> upsets #6 Seed UVA two straight on the road. \u00a0 They didn&#8217;t seem that troubled by UVA&#8217;s squad frankly; was UVA overseeded? \u00a0Or is the SEC just that deeper a conference?<\/li>\n<li>#3 <strong>Oregon State<\/strong> v #14 Kansas State overcomes a first game loss to take the set 4-3 on Monday.<\/li>\n<li>#10 <strong>Indiana <\/strong>defeated\u00a0#7 Florida State: Indiana was never scared of a Florida State team that blized through its own regional and went punch for punch in this high scoring regional, winning 2 straight in Tallahassee to advance. \u00a0This is the first time a <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/more\/news\/20130609\/college-world-series-indiana-louisville-vanderbilt-florida-state.ap\/\">Big 10 team has made the CWS since 1984<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>#15 <strong>Louisville <\/strong>defeated #2 Vanderbilt;\u00a0this may have looked like an upset by the seedings, but Louisville&#8217;s two dominant starters controlled Vanderbilt&#8217;s offense for most of these two games and Louisville advances.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, at the end of the Super Regionals only 3 of the 8 national seeds advanced, but they&#8217;re 3 of the 4 favorites heading into the tournament. \u00a0To me the only significant upset in the super regionals was Vanderbilt getting beat, though they&#8217;ve shown a propensity to falter early when seeded well (see 2007 when they entered the tournament as the #1 overall seed and had ace <strong>David Price<\/strong> but lost in their own regional to Michigan).<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">CWS Preview<\/span><\/strong> (reminder of format: each of these four groups will play a double elimination mini-tourney amongst themselves to arrive at a finalist for the Championship 3-game set):<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Conference Distribution<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Big 10: <strong>Indiana<\/strong>, Regular and Post Season Champ<\/li>\n<li>Big East: <strong>Louisville<\/strong>: Regular Season Champ<\/li>\n<li>Pac-12: <strong>Oregon State<\/strong>, Regular Season Champ.<\/li>\n<li>Pac-12: <strong>UCLA<\/strong>: 3rd Place Regular Season<\/li>\n<li>ACC:\u00a0<strong>UNC<\/strong>: 1st Place Coastal Division Regular Season, Post Season ACC Champ.<\/li>\n<li>ACC:\u00a0<strong>NC State<\/strong>: 2nd Place Atlantic Division Regular Season<\/li>\n<li>SEC:\u00a0<strong>LSU<\/strong>: 1st Place Western Division regular season, Post Season SEC champ<\/li>\n<li>SEC:\u00a0<strong>Mississippi State<\/strong>: 3rd place Western Division regular season<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two teams each from the 3 power baseball conferences and then the undisputed champs of two lesser conferences. \u00a0There&#8217;s some good distribution of conference champions in the CWS; 5 of the 8 teams are their conference&#8217;s Regular Season champions. \u00a0Non Regular Season champs UCLA and NC State advance in at the expense of perennially over-seeded Rice and Cal-State Fullerton. \u00a0 Mississippi State advances in a SEC-ACC showdown over UVA that was probably closer on paper than their ranks and seeds may have indicated.<\/p>\n<p>Fun Fact: Speaking of the ACC; A member of the ACC (not counting Miami, who wasn&#8217;t in the ACC at the time of their recent victories) has not won the College World Series since <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/College_World_Series\">Wake Forest&#8217; 1955 victory<\/a>. \u00a0 Despite being considered the best or 2nd best conference out there. \u00a0And honestly, I don&#8217;t see an ACC team winning this year either; UNC may be the #1 seed but they&#8217;ve struggled the whole post season.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pot 1: UNC<span style=\"color: #000000;\">, <\/span>NC State, UCLA, LSU<\/li>\n<li>Pot 2: Mississippi State, Oregon State, Indiana, Louisville<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">CWS Predictions<\/span><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Pot 1, We get a fun intra-state opening game of UNC-NC State (they split the regular season matchups and then UNC beat them in the ACC tournament). \u00a0LSU should take out a weaker UCLA, giving us a great potential UNC-LSU winners bracket showdown. \u00a0Frankly, I think LSU easily advances when all is said and done; they should have been a higher seed after winning the SEC championship over Vanderbilt, they&#8217;ve showed they can beat one of the best arms in the country in Jonathan Grey, and I think they&#8217;ve got what it takes to win it all.<\/li>\n<li>Pot 2 has three unexpected teams and a clear favorite in Oregon State. \u00a0 I&#8217;ll take Oregon State to hold serve against Mississippi State and I&#8217;ll take Louisville in the opener over surprising Indiana. \u00a0After that, I think Louisville continues to lean on their two big starters and eventually advances to the title game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the title game I&#8217;ll take LSU over Louisville; after watching LSU in the super regional I think they&#8217;re the best team playing the best ball right now heading into Omaha.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegebaseballdaily.com\/2013\/06\/10\/2013-cws-schedule-released\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CollegeBaseballDaily+%28College+Baseball+Daily%29\">Click here for the complete CWS broadcast schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick look at the College Baseball Super Regionals, which finished up on 6\/11\/13 due to the crazy rain the east coast has seen. Previous Links on the CWS this year: My original Field-of-64 thoughts\u00a0are here. My Regional review and super-regional preview is here. My favorite no-frills just data College Baseball site is\u00a0d1baseball.com, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[223,1766],"class_list":["post-6925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","tag-david-price","tag-jonathan-grey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6925","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=6925"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6991,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6925\/revisions\/6991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}