Stanford in the Bloomington regional.
#1 Indiana (national #4 seed)
#2 Indiana State
#3 Stanford
#4 Youngstown State
Might be an interesting exploration of the strength of midwest baseball.
Indiana crushed the Big Ten, going 21-3 and winning both regular season and tournament titles.
Overall record is 42-13.
They are #2 in the RPI according to Warren Nolan.
OOC Indiana started the season going 1-3 at Texas Tech, 1-2 in an Arizona tournament (beating UW, losing to Utah and Oregon State), 2-1 at Jacksonvill Univ, 1-2 at Long Beach (Long Beach is a 2 seed at Florida).
They took both games of a home and home with Louisville - a regional host.
They split two midweek games vs regional #2 Indiana State.
Last year, Indiana made it to Omaha (went 1-2).
Indiana State went 35-16, 14-7 in the Missouri Valley conference. Second in the regular season and 0-2 in the conference tournament.
RPI #22.
The only opponent they had this year (other than the two games vs Indiana mentioned above) that I have heard about as a college baseball notable was a single game midseason at Vanderbilt, losing 2-6 (Stanford got swept in a three game series at Vandy early on).
They lost a game to Auburn (not in tournament) in a season opening tournament in Florida, then won three versus sometimes decent UConn and Ohio State.
Youngstown State made the tourney by winning the Horizon conference tournament, taking 4 games in a row.
RPI #270
Their record overall is 16-36, 6-17 and they must be one of the worst teams in the tournament.
The only (baseball) power conference team they played was at NC State (who didn't make the tournament), losing 16-1. They have a team ERA of 6.90.
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And a note on RPIs and making the tournament. [All RPIs according to Warren Nolan]
Stanford finished at RPI #44.
ESPN reports the last 4 to make the tournament were Clemson (#49), UNC (#41), Texas AM (#42), and UC Irvine (#43).
The worst RPI for an at large team that I noticed was Fullerton at #54.
ESPN reports the top 4 left out were Mercer (#46), Central Florida (#48), USC (#60), and West Virginia (#38).
So, you can see some exceptions (WVU one way, Fullerton the other), but the committee seemed to have taken RPI rather seriously. The critical value seemed to be about 45 - better than that usually got in, worse usually not.
#1 Indiana (national #4 seed)
#2 Indiana State
#3 Stanford
#4 Youngstown State
Might be an interesting exploration of the strength of midwest baseball.
Indiana crushed the Big Ten, going 21-3 and winning both regular season and tournament titles.
Overall record is 42-13.
They are #2 in the RPI according to Warren Nolan.
OOC Indiana started the season going 1-3 at Texas Tech, 1-2 in an Arizona tournament (beating UW, losing to Utah and Oregon State), 2-1 at Jacksonvill Univ, 1-2 at Long Beach (Long Beach is a 2 seed at Florida).
They took both games of a home and home with Louisville - a regional host.
They split two midweek games vs regional #2 Indiana State.
Last year, Indiana made it to Omaha (went 1-2).
Indiana State went 35-16, 14-7 in the Missouri Valley conference. Second in the regular season and 0-2 in the conference tournament.
RPI #22.
The only opponent they had this year (other than the two games vs Indiana mentioned above) that I have heard about as a college baseball notable was a single game midseason at Vanderbilt, losing 2-6 (Stanford got swept in a three game series at Vandy early on).
They lost a game to Auburn (not in tournament) in a season opening tournament in Florida, then won three versus sometimes decent UConn and Ohio State.
Youngstown State made the tourney by winning the Horizon conference tournament, taking 4 games in a row.
RPI #270
Their record overall is 16-36, 6-17 and they must be one of the worst teams in the tournament.
The only (baseball) power conference team they played was at NC State (who didn't make the tournament), losing 16-1. They have a team ERA of 6.90.
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And a note on RPIs and making the tournament. [All RPIs according to Warren Nolan]
Stanford finished at RPI #44.
ESPN reports the last 4 to make the tournament were Clemson (#49), UNC (#41), Texas AM (#42), and UC Irvine (#43).
The worst RPI for an at large team that I noticed was Fullerton at #54.
ESPN reports the top 4 left out were Mercer (#46), Central Florida (#48), USC (#60), and West Virginia (#38).
So, you can see some exceptions (WVU one way, Fullerton the other), but the committee seemed to have taken RPI rather seriously. The critical value seemed to be about 45 - better than that usually got in, worse usually not.