13 teams in the NCAA Baseball Tournament, 9 hosted, and only 3 made it to Super Regionals. When is are the committees going to stop giving them sooooo much credit?
OT: Looks like the SEC isn't just overrated in football...
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Tennessee, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, and Vanderbilt have won the last 5 CBB titles.
Totally get that they have had the top team, but that doesn't mean they are 13 teams deep because they play each other. That was the principal objective for my OP. Also, Last year Evansville took Tennessee to the very brink, before they were able to win it all.
The SEC has indeed been impressive in baseball. They deserve their billing as the top conference. The OP has a valid point, however, that the committee went overboard in giving them all the credit for this tournament.
ACC: 9 total entrants; 3 seeded teams (#5, #9, and #11); 5 teams advance to the super regionals
SEC: 13 total entrants; 8 seeded teams (#1, #2, #3, #4, #6, #7, #10, #14); 4 teams advance to super regionals
Something was definitely off in the committee's overall evaluation of these two conferences.
ACC: 9 total entrants; 3 seeded teams (#5, #9, and #11); 5 teams advance to the super regionals
SEC: 13 total entrants; 8 seeded teams (#1, #2, #3, #4, #6, #7, #10, #14); 4 teams advance to super regionals
Something was definitely off in the committee's overall evaluation of these two conferences.
Nothing was off. It's baseball. You're seeded based on regular season performance. Once you get in the playoffs, anything can happen in that sport.
Anything can happen in an individual game. The pattern across dozens of games tells a different story. A single bead dropped in a Galton Board can land anywhere. If the whole distribution goes off center, then something is definitely off.
The seeding committee has an impossible job. Couch critics sit at home, wait for the games to be played, then shout you are wrong when everything does not go to form.
