The 2014 College Baseball season is in full swing but it is never too early to take a look at the 2014 NCAA Baseball Tournament. These are our latest look at the projections at what the tournament bracket will look like when it is announced on Memorial Day. All questions and comments can be discussed in the section below the post.
| 1. South Carolina * (1) | 1. North Carolina * |
| 1. Cal Poly * (8) | 1. UCLA |
| 1. Oregon State * (5) | 1. Cal State Fullerton |
| 1. Virginia (4) | 1. Ole Miss |
| 1. Vanderbilt (3) | 1. NC State |
| 1. LSU (6) | 1. Louisiana-Lafayette * |
| 1. Louisville * (7) | 1. Texas * |
| 1. Florida State * (2) | 1. Oregon |
| Conference | Projected Champ |
| America East | Binghamton |
| American Athletic Conference | Louisville |
| Atlantic 10 | VCU |
| ACC | Florida State |
| Atlantic Sun | Mercer |
| Big 10 | Indiana |
| Big 12 | Texas |
| Big East | Seton Hall |
| Big South | Liberty |
| Big West | Cal Poly |
| CAA | College of Charleston |
| Conference USA | Rice |
| Horizon League | Valparaiso |
| Ivy League | Columbia |
| MAAC | Canisius |
| MAC | Kent State |
| MEAC | Bethune-Cookman |
| Missouri Valley | Wichita State |
| Mountain West | UNLV |
| Northeast Conference | Bryant |
| Ohio Valley Conference | Tennessee Tech |
| Pac-12 | Oregon State |
| Patriot League | Army |
| SEC | South Carolina |
| Southern Conference | Western Carolina |
| Southland Conference | Sam Houston State |
| SWAC | Alabama State |
| Summit League | South Dakota State |
| Sun Belt | Louisiana-Lafayette |
| West Coast Conference | San Diego |
| WAC | Sacramento State |
In: Florida, Kansas, Liberty, UAB, Binghamton, Washington
Out: Arizona State, Binghamton, Cal, Campbell, Memphis, San Francisco
6 comments
You clearly aren’t using RPI, are you just assigning regional hosts to your favorite teams? For instance:
Cal Poly is 17-3 with the number 30 RPI, 14 ISR and 146 SoS
Houston is 15-3 with the number 2 RPI, 1 ISR, and 28 SoS
You have Cal Poly as a national seed and Houston not even hosting a regional. Really? You should predict on performance and not on what you hope will occur the rest of the season! You don’t understand how hosts are assigned.
The fact that no one else ever comments on your predictions probably indicates everyone else already knows it is fantasy. I’m just nice enough to let you know why you aren’t getting any attention with this fiction.
Houston RPI will not be top 16 with the conference they play in!
Brian Foley
Editor of College Baseball Daily
My point exactly. Cal Poly must be seeded in your analysis based on where you think they are now and UH on where they will finish. Cal Poly is an equally poor conference and will not improve on its strength of schedule which is already embarrassing. At least UH supplements its conference schedule with Rice, Texas, TCU, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Sam Houston State. You are not using the same criteria for all colleges.
Cal Poly RPI isn’t near top 8 now, not even top 16. If “Houston RPI will not be in top 16 with the conference they play in” then you are implying (or at least your readers are inferring) that you believe Cal Poly will be near the top with the conference they play in. This is a stretch.
The top team from the Big West has historically gotten a number 1 seed in the regionals. I take Fullerton, Irvine, and Cal Poly in the Big West over anything that Houston plays in a watered down AAC.
Brian Foley
Editor of College Baseball Daily
Twitter: @BFoley82|@CB_Daily
According to Boyd’s site, UH needs to go 22-11 to finish the year to get into the top 16 of the RPI. That certainly is doable for a team that is 19-4.
If CofC end up being a 2 seed, there is no way the CAA only gets 1 bid. They received 3 last year.
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