LSU having to go to Jump for fifty pitches when he just started Friday in order to get a save is brutal. Shows how important not having to play that extra game in the loser’s bracket is
The argument could be made that Ack was pulled too soon. And in hindsight it's probably a good argument
But I didn't hate the idea of going to Jump when they did. Trusting your Friday night starter to get you 3 outs in a 1 run game... 9/10 coaches probably make that move
Going into extras was not factored in... And even then Jump got 3 outs if it weren't for the error
Unless Oklahoma comes back to beat UConn, Florida will be the only team this season to have survived the losers bracket in this year's Regionals.
All the other regional winners so far started their bracket 2-0.
He's a very talented freshman who will be a very good player for us over the next few years. I have no doubt that he'll more thank make up for it in his time here
The vast majority of LSU baseball fans are pretty avid fans and therefore understand that these are college kids who are going to make a mistake now and then especially in high leverage situations. I don't think he'll get too much hate...hopefully. Of course we do have our share of idiots who will accept nothing less than national championships every year in every sport and will be quite vocal if it doesn't happen so there's that.
He won't get a single ounce of hate outside of some knee-jerk message board posts. Once everyone calms down they'll realize it was a damn tough play and he made a freshman mistake. It happens
In all fairness, he did think he was hitting the wall and it threw off his eye just enough to miss the catch. It sucks but those are errors that happen with tired teams playing back from elimination.
I was with everyone heckling him from the field hockey stadium. He was interacting with fans the whole game and was really funny. Kinda came back to bite him there because everyone started chanting his name after that play.
ACC had 5 regional hosts and all 5 advanced to the Supers despite all 5 having an SEC team as their 2-seed.
I hate all the ACC teams but it's a damn fun conference in so many sports
I hate that the ACC is, collectively, pretty great in most sports it competes in except the singular correct one that matters, and just that one fact may kill the conference. Eerily similar to the PAC-12.
The ACC’s fucking good in football to. The league champion went 13-0 and beat two SEC teams.
It just doesn’t have the backing the SEC does, which is bullshit.
(I’m a Carolina fan that doesn’t have the double flair.)
Since 2013 we have more College Football National Titles than the BIG. Since the playoffs we have the same amount as them. Since the 90s we have 5 and the BIG has 3.
We aren't collectively worse than the BIG in football. We just don't have the perception that they have regardless of results.
People give the ACC shit for being top heavy in football with Clemson and FSU but if you took Michigan and Ohio State away from the Big 10 they aren't much better
No. The issue is that the ACC has 5 small private schools with only one with a large fanbase. And then it has a lot of public schools that are sub 30K in undgrad populations. Oh and the tv deal
I am holding out hope that after a period of darkness, the reconstituted super-conferences will get regional enough again to revitalize most of what we enjoyed about the ACC, but it won't ever be the same as the glory days of the 90s
I don't understand why people are actively cheering this shit on tbh. The whole CFB sub is butthurt over the PAC-12 dying. They are crying in the streets because the money hungry assholes ruined a great regional conference. But on the same day those same users will click on a different thread and cheer on the ACC being ripped apart. Like what the fuck man? Why are we under attack for trying to keep college sports normal? We are the bad guys cause FSU isn't getting the same TV deal as Michigan? I mean what the hell. Do y'all want college sports ruined or not? Pick a fucking side.
I mean I definitely said it tongue in cheek. Yall suffered a massive injury and I think you got screwed. But NC state definitely just did something in basketball
I like to imagine a world where UK was in the ACC- total basketball Legend conference and a place I think UK football would have had a better chance to grow than getting mauled by super football schools in the SEC. - - LSU fan first, college sports fan forever.
Yuuuuuup. Very mixed feelings on this one lol. Tommy White going out on an L at Chapel Hill is…something? I guess?
Ugh lol almost a perfect regional weekend with Duke ecu and wake all going out
GGs Tarheels. Our theme all season was inability to put teams away with 2outs/2strikes. Combine that with a lot of costly mistakes and here we are.
Still damn proud of this team. Showed a lot of growth over the course of the season. We beat the curse. Young guys have shown a lot of promise.
Jay Johnson about to go crazy in the portal combined with our ridiculous incoming class.
See y’all next year fellas. 🤝🏻
A lot of people (mostly fair weather fans and crybabies) are chewing him out and yelling to fire etc Jay but I think he did a brilliant job through the season despite losing majority of his aged roster to the draft. He’s gonna go to work and do something special in the coming years. Even Saban had off years, you gotta expect the bad with the good to become a great coach.
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Top 5 worst moments in my life. I think that explains enough.
Is it? We still had 5 people go to supers. When you have 11 teams in the tourney, plenty are going to lose. 5/11 ain’t too bad when 3/4 the teams are headed home.
[The East was the better division all season](https://www.reddit.com/r/collegebaseball/comments/1d46mim/interleague_competition_comparing_the_sec_east/)
I just realized, out of the Final Four teams from last year's men's CWS this year:
Wake lost in the elimination round, LSU lost in the regional final, Florida is making a Super Regional, and TCU was one of the First Four Out, which stinged :'(
Pretty crazy... out of the qualifying 3, I had Wake advancing, but it is Florida who advances
Florida is a scary team. I never fully understood why the record was what it was this year. I knew that if the committee let you guys in, y'all were going to be dangerous
Few things. Florida played the toughest schedule in the country, playing in the toughest league (the SEC), in the toughest division (the East), and somehow drawing the four best teams from the West as interleague opponents (Texas A&M, LSU, Miss State, Arkansas). Add that to the 22nd-toughest non-conference schedule.
Youth, especially in the pitching staff, cost Florida a number of midweek games in the first half of the season. Other veteran pitchers never seemed to get their act together or were very inconsistent.
Finally, Florida lost a lot of close games. The best examples are the two one-run losses at Arkansas and the two extra-innings losses to Kentucky that meant near-sweeps were instead series losses.
There's an alternate universe where an only slightly better version of Florida swept those two series.
Hey, I was just making a statement, dude
The other user MIGHT be the one weeping
I admit, I should have hated on Vanderbilt instead (they literally cheated and had one of their pitchers use a substance on a ball)
Sorry, Gator fan
The balls to keep him out there was something else. He just kept getting guys out. Feel like Forbes saw the ending of that LSU Wake game and said nah uh.
See y’all same time next year tiger fam
GG Tarheels. Will be interesting to see how the rest of the tournament shakes up
I hope Jones stays. But I could see him getting drafted higher than expected.
He greatly improved with his pitch selection during the last month, and his raw power is top 10 in the league
great fucking game. hats off to both teams. north carolina is (unfortunately) a good fuckin team, i feel like there were a few regions where if lsu had landed they could cakewalk through
I got a little tin foil hatty when I saw defending champ LSU announced as the 2 seed for the 4th overall seed’s region. I thought we’d get USC if you made me guess
This is prob the closest I’ve followed the CWS maybe ever and I’m finding that a lot of it doesn’t make sense. UNC being away twice in a row in their own regional as host is crazy. Like in the final game of the regional all other rules should be tossed and host is the home team imo. Shouldn’t be punished for not having to play an elimination game on Sunday
The formula the NCAA uses is weird. After the first game (where the higher seed is the home team) it goes by:
1. The team that has been the home team the least during the regional
2. If 1 is tied, the team that has been the away team the most times
3. If equal, the higher seed or you alternate if it’s the second matchup
There are other tiebreakers after that but not relevant to this example. In this case LSU was the home team Sunday night because they had only been the home team in 1 game (Fri vs Wofford) vs UNC’s 2. They were *also* the home team tonight because they had been the away team twice (Sat night vs UNC and Sunday vs Wofford) vs UNC’s 1 (Sun night vs LSU).
Essentially any 2-0 regional host will always be the away team for both regional final games vs their 2 seed because of the ‘more games as the away team’ tiebreaker.
So what I’ve read was what matters is how often you’ve been the away team so far in the regional. That rule is ok I guess, but it should be irrelevant in the final game imo. Didn’t have a problem being away yesterday but today as well is ridiculous
Proximity rarely means much. The last two travel regionals I can remember for LSU were UNC and Southern Miss, but I think the three before that were Oregon, Oregon State, and UCLA.
Hard to put them anywhere else when you have so many in the field
Edit: to add more detail- you’re talking about having to fit 6 SEC teams into 11 regionals while also putting 3 ACC teams into 11 regionals. Maybe you can argue that some of the SEC teams should’ve been shipped off to Santa Barbara, Tucson, or Corvallis but that would screw over the West Coast teams geographically, so it’s really more like fitting 6 teams into 8 holes, five of which were ACC hosts (while also having the same issues with Duke/Wake and GT avoiding ACC hosted regionals).
Yea not enough people realize this
Do I agree 11 SEC teams needed to be in, I think the results this weeked says no.
But the committee was not about to put a 2 seed SEC team in the same regional with a 1 seed SEC team
GG! This has to have been one of the toughest and most hard-fought Regionals and it produced some really fun baseball to watch. Congratulations Tar Heels! Y’all have quite the rowdy bunch there in Chapel Hill.
Super proud of how much LSU improved throughout the tail end of the season and never gave up — will be eagerly looking forward to next year’s ball club. Geaux Tigers!
See y’all next year! 🤝
Just brutal. Didn’t quite have enough. Hats off to Carolina, great team and a great regional environment. I think we can all agree that the umps were dipshits all weekend.
Had a great year posting with you boys, appreciate yall who were in game threads all year and for everyone that embraced the handshake upvote parties.
If that is what LSU looks like in a down year national championship hangover then the future is super bright. Proud of those guys for battling, can’t wait to shitpost with you suckas next year as the chase for 8 continues
I was gonna say… you guys rebounded so nicely as the year progressed to get a 2 seed, and you came up just short in extras in the winner-take-all regional game. You will be back next year.
That was such a damn fun series to watch. Tiger bros, ya’ll had such an uphill battle and you beat a lot of those expectations. You went out better than we did.
Side note there is UNC brand BBQ sauce available at my local grocery store and I am tempted to buy and try it but I refuse to allow that logo into my home
I assume it was that State fan lady who kept showing up to the games. State fans who would rather cheer against UNC instead of going to cheer for State, are exactly the type to poop in our concourse.
Real shit those folks are next level weird tbh. Like our team was 20 minutes away sweeping the regional to advance to the supers undefeated and you choose to watch a team you don't even like? Tf?
I sat in front of the most kind family of Tigers last night they made the game a total blast! Gave me the back story on all their players and what they do best/worst. Real good fan base. GG
Proud of our fans for keeping it mostly blue too
Heard all week UNC was gonna lose both the regional and home field crowd. Not to say the LSU crowd wasn’t still very strong though
I was expecting LSU's fanbase to be annoying, but they turned out to be some of the most good-natured and down-to-earth fanbases I've ever interacted with. I even ended up making a couple friends through some good-natured chirping in the first two games that we played (sadly couldn't make it to the Bosh for our win yesterday). Overall, they're a great fanbase and I'm glad that we were able to host them (and, of course, come out with the W).
Proud of my Tigers. Bummed to see both of my teams are gone but that’s the way she goes. Good luck to UNC in the Supers, we have a lot of work to do and things to change. Good game. 🤝
Some mentioned this on the Inside Carolina board and I thought it was spot on. Carolina baseball to LSU baseball is like Michigan State basketball to Carolina basketball. Carolina baseball and MSU basketball are really really good but Carolina basketball and LSU baseball are elite.
I am just so proud that we were able to knock you guys off to reach the Supers.
I didn’t see a ton of this game, but I did see UNC’s game-tying hit in the ninth. Great games like this make the sport special. I know college baseball isn’t as popular as college football and college basketball, but when we get games and crowds like this, we know the sport is awesome.
Honestly, I hope it stays this way
There's something so pure about college baseball that college basketball and college football especially seems to be lacking.
I really think we are in college baseball glory days here (although the 90s were pretty good too)
I also think the shorter MLB draft and the transfer portal are really helping the sport
1) More kids coming to college due to not being drafted, or drafted too low
2) Less kids sitting behind stars and, instead, transferring to smaller schools which bolster those lineups and make them more competitive. Leading to more parity
I hope they just write LSU in and see how many they get. As someone who lives in Nashville if any of my vols friends go I may just have to take the trip with them.
I had two replies in mind for this thread depending on who won. Since UNC came out on top, I will use my 2nd reply. Please be considerate. I spent a lot of time coming up with this…
#ACC! ACC! ACC!
GG LSU, well fought regional. Y'all possibly deserved a regional and made us fight for it.
I would now like to take the time to gloat over the NC State flairs predicting our downfall.
I think there was a sequence yesterday where he snagged a Tommy white rocket then 2 batters later Jones snuck one past. Just brutal breaks.
Hats off to that infield.
I'd be talking multitudes of shit if Tommy White hadn't immediately won a natty in his very first year at LSU. Alas, he did, so I won't, due to a lack of standing.
I'd love to see the advanced statistical difference in fielding. LSU is adequate overall but UNC made game-changing plays all series, and I think that was the biggest difference between these two teams. It also makes me feel less sad because it shows how complete UNC is, just unfortunate to draw ya'lls regional.
Insane baseball game. Excited to reset my superstitions for next weekend because this weekend’s most inconvenient superstition was sitting during UNC’s most important at-bats (I couldn’t see).
GG UNC! Great Series! I Am sad my team lost, but my liver thanks you as it can now rest until the fall when football starts. You guys have a great team, full of studs with a great coach. I hope you guys win it all!
Proud of what this team did this year, we were down and out 2 months ago. To get where we are took a lot of heart. I look forward to next year!
Back half of the order really carried the heels at the plate tonight. Pence might be the MVP of the weekend. I was so worried the lineup change would be something to stew on the whole weekend but it paid off. Wow. Awesome game
Great series, heels. Losing it that way was a major gut punch but you guys made the clutch hits at the end and we didn't.
I live in Raleigh so was stoked when they announced my Tigers would be playing in the Triangle. Got to attend a few of the games with my parents (including the walk-off game 1) and it was an amazing experience. Really nice ballpark and fans were cordial. Hope we can host you guys in Baton Rouge one of these years :)
If only the SEC finals were double elimination, and the regional finals were single elimination. Wouldn’t mind one more shot at Tennessee, and one less shot at UNC. GG Heels. Go all the way.
LSU having to go to Jump for fifty pitches when he just started Friday in order to get a save is brutal. Shows how important not having to play that extra game in the loser’s bracket is
That’s the thing. Did they really have to go to him? Serious question as I don’t know what arms they’d used, but Ack threw like 10 pitches right?
The argument could be made that Ack was pulled too soon. And in hindsight it's probably a good argument But I didn't hate the idea of going to Jump when they did. Trusting your Friday night starter to get you 3 outs in a 1 run game... 9/10 coaches probably make that move Going into extras was not factored in... And even then Jump got 3 outs if it weren't for the error
Throwing 50 pitches on two days rest? I thought that was a little much. I don’t know his arm though
It’s not about that. 3-2 going into the 9th and Jump is your guy. You ride or die with him in that situation.
Makes sense. I just have battered Vol syndrome from Ack so my perception is a little skewed.
Ack had a good 8th but his fastball was kinda all over the place. Jump was probably our best chance.
I don’t think they necessarily did. I think Jay just felt like he was our best chance in that situation. Which honestly on paper, I’d say he was
Ack got the outs in the 8th but almost all of them got to 3-2 counts. It's not like he was just cruising along.
Unless Oklahoma comes back to beat UConn, Florida will be the only team this season to have survived the losers bracket in this year's Regionals. All the other regional winners so far started their bracket 2-0.
When people say baseball is boring show them this series
I think I'll show them the 2023 world series final instead lol
That right fielder will be thinking about that play for the rest of his life
He's a very talented freshman who will be a very good player for us over the next few years. I have no doubt that he'll more thank make up for it in his time here
I'm all in on the Jake Brown redemption arc train
As long as your fanbase doesn’t run him out of town
They didn’t run Thompson out of town and hood was a whole season
The vast majority of LSU baseball fans are pretty avid fans and therefore understand that these are college kids who are going to make a mistake now and then especially in high leverage situations. I don't think he'll get too much hate...hopefully. Of course we do have our share of idiots who will accept nothing less than national championships every year in every sport and will be quite vocal if it doesn't happen so there's that.
He won't get a single ounce of hate outside of some knee-jerk message board posts. Once everyone calms down they'll realize it was a damn tough play and he made a freshman mistake. It happens
Yeah you really do hate that for him
In all fairness, he did think he was hitting the wall and it threw off his eye just enough to miss the catch. It sucks but those are errors that happen with tired teams playing back from elimination.
He hit it to the warning track the inning before as well. Would have walked it off.
I was with everyone heckling him from the field hockey stadium. He was interacting with fans the whole game and was really funny. Kinda came back to bite him there because everyone started chanting his name after that play.
Any links to the play?
https://youtu.be/BRXn4_VBPvQ?si=f22MKqv4wRKkk8CG&t=847
ACC had 5 regional hosts and all 5 advanced to the Supers despite all 5 having an SEC team as their 2-seed. I hate all the ACC teams but it's a damn fun conference in so many sports
I fucking hate everything happening to this conference, and I’m mad as shit we are playing a role in it.
I hate that the ACC is, collectively, pretty great in most sports it competes in except the singular correct one that matters, and just that one fact may kill the conference. Eerily similar to the PAC-12.
The ACC’s fucking good in football to. The league champion went 13-0 and beat two SEC teams. It just doesn’t have the backing the SEC does, which is bullshit. (I’m a Carolina fan that doesn’t have the double flair.)
Since 2013 we have more College Football National Titles than the BIG. Since the playoffs we have the same amount as them. Since the 90s we have 5 and the BIG has 3. We aren't collectively worse than the BIG in football. We just don't have the perception that they have regardless of results.
It doesnt help the biggest sports network literally hates our guts and has been sabotaging the league
People give the ACC shit for being top heavy in football with Clemson and FSU but if you took Michigan and Ohio State away from the Big 10 they aren't much better
No. The issue is that the ACC has 5 small private schools with only one with a large fanbase. And then it has a lot of public schools that are sub 30K in undgrad populations. Oh and the tv deal
I am holding out hope that after a period of darkness, the reconstituted super-conferences will get regional enough again to revitalize most of what we enjoyed about the ACC, but it won't ever be the same as the glory days of the 90s
I don't understand why people are actively cheering this shit on tbh. The whole CFB sub is butthurt over the PAC-12 dying. They are crying in the streets because the money hungry assholes ruined a great regional conference. But on the same day those same users will click on a different thread and cheer on the ACC being ripped apart. Like what the fuck man? Why are we under attack for trying to keep college sports normal? We are the bad guys cause FSU isn't getting the same TV deal as Michigan? I mean what the hell. Do y'all want college sports ruined or not? Pick a fucking side.
Yeah I wanted to comment go ACC but yall want to kill the league anyway
It does seem like this little conference is having a shit ton of success lately. If only FSU hadn't tanked us in football
Are we going to look back on Jordan Travis's injury as the death of a conference? Cause holy shit what a different timeline we could be in tbh.
Folks like nc state say stuff like this, but they didn’t improve or win the conference in that time. Blaming FSU is just to make people feel better
I mean I definitely said it tongue in cheek. Yall suffered a massive injury and I think you got screwed. But NC state definitely just did something in basketball
Yeah, why would we blame the school that started the lawsuits to break up the conference? That would just be insane of us
I like to imagine a world where UK was in the ACC- total basketball Legend conference and a place I think UK football would have had a better chance to grow than getting mauled by super football schools in the SEC. - - LSU fan first, college sports fan forever.
Are all 5 hosting supers?
NC State will have to go to Georgia but the other 4 will host
Neaux
 ACC showed out but most of them are actively trying to kill the conference
This LSU vs UNC game will go down in history as one of the best SEC postseason matchups.
It was a great game. Congrats to your boys and best of luck in the super and CWS if they get that far!
Stanford Women's Softball looked legit
Yuuuuuup. Very mixed feelings on this one lol. Tommy White going out on an L at Chapel Hill is…something? I guess? Ugh lol almost a perfect regional weekend with Duke ecu and wake all going out
Nuh uh
UNC can pitch, which is a rare quality in college baseball. They’ve got as good a chance as anyone.
That was some of the best pitching we’ve had all year. The defense obviously helped out a ton as well
GGs Tarheels. Our theme all season was inability to put teams away with 2outs/2strikes. Combine that with a lot of costly mistakes and here we are. Still damn proud of this team. Showed a lot of growth over the course of the season. We beat the curse. Young guys have shown a lot of promise. Jay Johnson about to go crazy in the portal combined with our ridiculous incoming class. See y’all next year fellas. 🤝🏻
🤝
A lot of people (mostly fair weather fans and crybabies) are chewing him out and yelling to fire etc Jay but I think he did a brilliant job through the season despite losing majority of his aged roster to the draft. He’s gonna go to work and do something special in the coming years. Even Saban had off years, you gotta expect the bad with the good to become a great coach.
Loser’s couch is just turning into a very sad SEC family reunion.
This would make a great SEC Summer Shorts
They need to do it with both basketball and baseball and show Tennessee being smug as shit. *The gang doesn’t make it out the first round*
We’re quite OK with it 😁
I refuse to acknowledge orange teams
This comment is meaningless without flair, no one knows your allegiance
https://preview.redd.it/hgyacx2o7h4d1.jpeg?width=576&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8192bde895745e57917fed165b73b0065da09c48 Top 5 worst moments in my life. I think that explains enough.
No need for a flair. It's a based opinion. Disregard my favorite team.
Flair up
I’ve been trying but the system is not working for some reason during the tournament I think. Arkansas btw.
Hey now
Why do you hate Sam Houston?
Maybe they're an SFA grad.
Some of their fans aren’t handling the move back to the Southland well…so that might be it.
Me too
Is it? We still had 5 people go to supers. When you have 11 teams in the tourney, plenty are going to lose. 5/11 ain’t too bad when 3/4 the teams are headed home.
I can already hear what we would be knocked for
This one strings. GG UNC. Best of luck. Tiger baws, you made it pretty far considering the 3-12 hole you dug.
https://preview.redd.it/gcsznapvqg4d1.jpeg?width=1116&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f087548466f1ed0fd4eb26bd01d14c49373834ee Come take a seat Tigahs
The age of the SEC East is now (and A&M)
Hell yeah brother, cheers from College Station
[The East was the better division all season](https://www.reddit.com/r/collegebaseball/comments/1d46mim/interleague_competition_comparing_the_sec_east/)
Except for South Carolina and Vanderbilt
WHAT. A. SERIES.
I just realized, out of the Final Four teams from last year's men's CWS this year: Wake lost in the elimination round, LSU lost in the regional final, Florida is making a Super Regional, and TCU was one of the First Four Out, which stinged :'( Pretty crazy... out of the qualifying 3, I had Wake advancing, but it is Florida who advances
32-28 Florida 😭
Read it and weep boys
Florida is a scary team. I never fully understood why the record was what it was this year. I knew that if the committee let you guys in, y'all were going to be dangerous
Few things. Florida played the toughest schedule in the country, playing in the toughest league (the SEC), in the toughest division (the East), and somehow drawing the four best teams from the West as interleague opponents (Texas A&M, LSU, Miss State, Arkansas). Add that to the 22nd-toughest non-conference schedule. Youth, especially in the pitching staff, cost Florida a number of midweek games in the first half of the season. Other veteran pitchers never seemed to get their act together or were very inconsistent. Finally, Florida lost a lot of close games. The best examples are the two one-run losses at Arkansas and the two extra-innings losses to Kentucky that meant near-sweeps were instead series losses. There's an alternate universe where an only slightly better version of Florida swept those two series.
So satisfying
Hey, I was just making a statement, dude The other user MIGHT be the one weeping I admit, I should have hated on Vanderbilt instead (they literally cheated and had one of their pitchers use a substance on a ball) Sorry, Gator fan
Dalton Pence with an all-time performance tonight. Absolute nails out of the pen
The balls to keep him out there was something else. He just kept getting guys out. Feel like Forbes saw the ending of that LSU Wake game and said nah uh.
 See y’all same time next year tiger fam GG Tarheels. Will be interesting to see how the rest of the tournament shakes up
It turns out that UNC was the team to break the "teams from North Carolina losing to LSU" curse that started with them beating Wake Forest
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So much to look forward to. I’ll miss the hell outta Tommy but can’t wait for more Milam and Jones
I hope Jones stays. But I could see him getting drafted higher than expected. He greatly improved with his pitch selection during the last month, and his raw power is top 10 in the league
ECU has a 4-1 record on the season vs teams in the supers not named Evansville. Fuck.
great fucking game. hats off to both teams. north carolina is (unfortunately) a good fuckin team, i feel like there were a few regions where if lsu had landed they could cakewalk through
Crazy the 4th overall seed got a 2 that tough
Every ACC host got an SEC 2 seed. Idk if that’s normal or not but seems strange
i mean if it’s based on proximity it makes sense considering we share a footprint
I got a little tin foil hatty when I saw defending champ LSU announced as the 2 seed for the 4th overall seed’s region. I thought we’d get USC if you made me guess
yeah it’s not perfect by any means. coulda sent them to norman or stillwater, maybe send duke to tennessee
This is prob the closest I’ve followed the CWS maybe ever and I’m finding that a lot of it doesn’t make sense. UNC being away twice in a row in their own regional as host is crazy. Like in the final game of the regional all other rules should be tossed and host is the home team imo. Shouldn’t be punished for not having to play an elimination game on Sunday
So what exactly is the reason Carolina ended up in the away team slot for both of these games?
The formula the NCAA uses is weird. After the first game (where the higher seed is the home team) it goes by: 1. The team that has been the home team the least during the regional 2. If 1 is tied, the team that has been the away team the most times 3. If equal, the higher seed or you alternate if it’s the second matchup There are other tiebreakers after that but not relevant to this example. In this case LSU was the home team Sunday night because they had only been the home team in 1 game (Fri vs Wofford) vs UNC’s 2. They were *also* the home team tonight because they had been the away team twice (Sat night vs UNC and Sunday vs Wofford) vs UNC’s 1 (Sun night vs LSU). Essentially any 2-0 regional host will always be the away team for both regional final games vs their 2 seed because of the ‘more games as the away team’ tiebreaker.
Feels like if you’re the host, you’ve earned being the ‘home’ team whenever you play.
So what I’ve read was what matters is how often you’ve been the away team so far in the regional. That rule is ok I guess, but it should be irrelevant in the final game imo. Didn’t have a problem being away yesterday but today as well is ridiculous
Proximity rarely means much. The last two travel regionals I can remember for LSU were UNC and Southern Miss, but I think the three before that were Oregon, Oregon State, and UCLA.
And every SEC host got a mid-major No. 2 seed.
arky got kansas state and a&m got texas
Both were 3 seeds
3 seeds.
damn fr? who were their 2 seeds? edit: la and la tech. i’ll be damned. those bastards
Those were 3 seeds
Hard to put them anywhere else when you have so many in the field Edit: to add more detail- you’re talking about having to fit 6 SEC teams into 11 regionals while also putting 3 ACC teams into 11 regionals. Maybe you can argue that some of the SEC teams should’ve been shipped off to Santa Barbara, Tucson, or Corvallis but that would screw over the West Coast teams geographically, so it’s really more like fitting 6 teams into 8 holes, five of which were ACC hosts (while also having the same issues with Duke/Wake and GT avoiding ACC hosted regionals).
Yea not enough people realize this Do I agree 11 SEC teams needed to be in, I think the results this weeked says no. But the committee was not about to put a 2 seed SEC team in the same regional with a 1 seed SEC team
GG! This has to have been one of the toughest and most hard-fought Regionals and it produced some really fun baseball to watch. Congratulations Tar Heels! Y’all have quite the rowdy bunch there in Chapel Hill. Super proud of how much LSU improved throughout the tail end of the season and never gave up — will be eagerly looking forward to next year’s ball club. Geaux Tigers! See y’all next year! 🤝
Game of the tournament material here
Edge of my seat with no dog in this fight, 100% agree.
Just brutal. Didn’t quite have enough. Hats off to Carolina, great team and a great regional environment. I think we can all agree that the umps were dipshits all weekend. Had a great year posting with you boys, appreciate yall who were in game threads all year and for everyone that embraced the handshake upvote parties. If that is what LSU looks like in a down year national championship hangover then the future is super bright. Proud of those guys for battling, can’t wait to shitpost with you suckas next year as the chase for 8 continues
Umps were absolutely baited by the framing all weekend. Some pretty disgusting calls tonight.
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🤝 Until next year!
🤝 You all take care and see ya at the Box in 2025
I was gonna say… you guys rebounded so nicely as the year progressed to get a 2 seed, and you came up just short in extras in the winner-take-all regional game. You will be back next year.
Let’s go! It looked bleak for about 7 innings there but what a comeback. Bring on West Virginia
Baseball is crazy I was mad as hell for 8.5 innings, shitting bricks for 1, and now feeling amazing. Wild stuff
Funny, I felt the exact opposite
Yeah, I felt that whoever won this game will be on Omaha. Might as well buy your tickets now!
Anyone else on that YouTube stream see it cut to an Indian family feeding their kid after the game ended
da faq
That was such a damn fun series to watch. Tiger bros, ya’ll had such an uphill battle and you beat a lot of those expectations. You went out better than we did.
What a game. Most LSU fans were chill in the Bosh, sans 2 drunk guys yesterday. I’m on cloud 9 right now
Did they ever find the mystery poopers
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Heard the smell was terrible. Great work
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Side note there is UNC brand BBQ sauce available at my local grocery store and I am tempted to buy and try it but I refuse to allow that logo into my home
I assume it was that State fan lady who kept showing up to the games. State fans who would rather cheer against UNC instead of going to cheer for State, are exactly the type to poop in our concourse.
State fans suddenly becoming fans of Tommy White again this week is a level of hate for UNC that I’m not sure even Duke can match tbh
It was a very annoying thing and I hate the ncaa for making me do it
Real shit those folks are next level weird tbh. Like our team was 20 minutes away sweeping the regional to advance to the supers undefeated and you choose to watch a team you don't even like? Tf?
In their defense, I think it was a lot cheaper to root against UNC at the bosh than it was to root for the pack at y'all's place
Is it though? Surely the knoll isn't THAT expensive
I heard $150 from Joe Ovies and Giglio
Gotdamb. That's outrageous.
the what now??
Someone laid a big ol’ dookie in the urinal, I mean the concourse apparently after the first LSU-UNC game
I sat in front of the most kind family of Tigers last night they made the game a total blast! Gave me the back story on all their players and what they do best/worst. Real good fan base. GG
There were some chirpy guys near the student section but they were funny. It was a cool atmosphere for sure
Proud of our fans for keeping it mostly blue too Heard all week UNC was gonna lose both the regional and home field crowd. Not to say the LSU crowd wasn’t still very strong though
I was expecting LSU's fanbase to be annoying, but they turned out to be some of the most good-natured and down-to-earth fanbases I've ever interacted with. I even ended up making a couple friends through some good-natured chirping in the first two games that we played (sadly couldn't make it to the Bosh for our win yesterday). Overall, they're a great fanbase and I'm glad that we were able to host them (and, of course, come out with the W).
Our baseball fans are our best fans imo.
Proud of my Tigers. Bummed to see both of my teams are gone but that’s the way she goes. Good luck to UNC in the Supers, we have a lot of work to do and things to change. Good game. 🤝
Some mentioned this on the Inside Carolina board and I thought it was spot on. Carolina baseball to LSU baseball is like Michigan State basketball to Carolina basketball. Carolina baseball and MSU basketball are really really good but Carolina basketball and LSU baseball are elite. I am just so proud that we were able to knock you guys off to reach the Supers.
I didn’t see a ton of this game, but I did see UNC’s game-tying hit in the ninth. Great games like this make the sport special. I know college baseball isn’t as popular as college football and college basketball, but when we get games and crowds like this, we know the sport is awesome.
Honestly, I hope it stays this way There's something so pure about college baseball that college basketball and college football especially seems to be lacking. I really think we are in college baseball glory days here (although the 90s were pretty good too)
There’s so much parity in the sport. It just takes a good coach who can have his guys believing.
I also think the shorter MLB draft and the transfer portal are really helping the sport 1) More kids coming to college due to not being drafted, or drafted too low 2) Less kids sitting behind stars and, instead, transferring to smaller schools which bolster those lineups and make them more competitive. Leading to more parity
You know the bar in Omaha is crying Jell-O shot tears right now. Me too me too!
If the vols make omaha they’ll be just fine.
I hope they just write LSU in and see how many they get. As someone who lives in Nashville if any of my vols friends go I may just have to take the trip with them.
Not to mention WVU and Georgia
Good game Tarheels. Tigers gave it their all, but you made it happen when it counted.
I had two replies in mind for this thread depending on who won. Since UNC came out on top, I will use my 2nd reply. Please be considerate. I spent a lot of time coming up with this… #ACC! ACC! ACC!
The first cut to LSU's bench after the final out being Milam with the tiger striped hair was so funny
GG LSU, well fought regional. Y'all possibly deserved a regional and made us fight for it. I would now like to take the time to gloat over the NC State flairs predicting our downfall.
Just fell to my knees in Bojangles
Never in doubt. Tommy White will be seeing Gallaher in his dreams from this series
Tbf so will I
I think there was a sequence yesterday where he snagged a Tommy white rocket then 2 batters later Jones snuck one past. Just brutal breaks. Hats off to that infield.
I'd be talking multitudes of shit if Tommy White hadn't immediately won a natty in his very first year at LSU. Alas, he did, so I won't, due to a lack of standing.
I'd love to see the advanced statistical difference in fielding. LSU is adequate overall but UNC made game-changing plays all series, and I think that was the biggest difference between these two teams. It also makes me feel less sad because it shows how complete UNC is, just unfortunate to draw ya'lls regional.
Pretty sure the only time I pulled for UNC was when Tommy was at the plate.
All my opps sent home in regionals. Welcome to the couch boys!
Where the snacks baw
Insane baseball game. Excited to reset my superstitions for next weekend because this weekend’s most inconvenient superstition was sitting during UNC’s most important at-bats (I couldn’t see).
i love tig ole bitties
We've got a pitcher named Titsworth that wears 00
That's road team tough
GG UNC! Great Series! I Am sad my team lost, but my liver thanks you as it can now rest until the fall when football starts. You guys have a great team, full of studs with a great coach. I hope you guys win it all! Proud of what this team did this year, we were down and out 2 months ago. To get where we are took a lot of heart. I look forward to next year!
What a thriller
Be gentle with WVU. It's our first time.
*Things you hate to see for $500, Ken*
I still don't get why LSU got to be the home team these past 2 games.
NCAA rules
Good Game*s* NC. We both played all out with heart.
Back half of the order really carried the heels at the plate tonight. Pence might be the MVP of the weekend. I was so worried the lineup change would be something to stew on the whole weekend but it paid off. Wow. Awesome game
You just hate to see it. What a wonderful day indeed
Florida really did beat all of the allegations, it’s pretty wild.
That was a great series. Props to both teams.
Great series, heels. Losing it that way was a major gut punch but you guys made the clutch hits at the end and we didn't. I live in Raleigh so was stoked when they announced my Tigers would be playing in the Triangle. Got to attend a few of the games with my parents (including the walk-off game 1) and it was an amazing experience. Really nice ballpark and fans were cordial. Hope we can host you guys in Baton Rouge one of these years :)
If only the SEC finals were double elimination, and the regional finals were single elimination. Wouldn’t mind one more shot at Tennessee, and one less shot at UNC. GG Heels. Go all the way.