We had some wild finishes in the regionals. Maryland stunned UCLA 2-1 to win the Los Angeles Region and eliminate the number one overall seed. The Terps will face Virginia in the Supers for the second year in a row. All of the other national seeds survived -- although Texas Christian needed a miraculous, come-from-behind victory to make it. The Frogs were down 8-1 going into the bottom of the 8th. But they scored six runs in the 8th, one in the 9th, and one in the 10th for a 9-8 victory that put them in the Supers. Naturally, their victim was North Carolina State, which apparently used up all of its luck in the 1983 NCAA Basketball Tournament. Texas Christian will face Texas A & M, which finally got past Cal with a 3-1 victory in the final game of the College Station Region.
OK, so here are the Super Regionals (home team listed first):
Virginia v. Maryland
Arkansas v. (8) Missouri St.
(4) Florida v. Florida St.
(5) Miami (Fla.) v. Virginia Commonwealth
(2) Louisiana St. v. La-Lafayette
(7) Texas Christian v. Texas A & M
(3) Louisville v. Cal-St. Fullerton
(6) Illinois v. Vanderbilt
I am for Vandy first and Louisville second.
ReplyDeleteI feel bad for NCSU, but that school can find more ways to lose hard-luck games than any other school I know.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I feel bad for Vandy and Illinois. It's absurd that they have to play each other in a Super Regional. Here's what the Super Regionals look like using Baseball America's final top 20 of the Regular Season (rankings in parentheses):
ReplyDeleteVirginia v. Maryland
(20) Arkansas v. (6) Missouri St.
(3) Florida v. (10) Florida St.
(12) Miami (Fla.) v. Virginia Commonwealth
(1) LSU v. La-Lafayette
(7) TCU v. (8) Texas A & M
(9) Louisville v. Cal-St. Fullerton
(4) Illinois v. (5) Vanderbilt
No one has had easier path to Omaha than Miami, which only needed to get past Columbia in the Regionals, and now gets to play VCU, which started as a 4 seed in this tournament. In the bottom of the second in Coral Gables, Fla., the Canes lead VCU 2-0.
ReplyDeleteAfter 2 innings, Miami leads VCU 3-0.
ReplyDeleteAfter a long rain delay, Miami eventually beat VCU 3-2.
ReplyDeleteNow UVA and Maryland are playing in Charlottesville. There is no score through 4 1/2 innings. For some reason, UVA is wearing camouflage uniforms and camouflage hats. They look about as silly as you would expect.
And now the Cavs look even worse, as Maryland has jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the 5th.
ReplyDeleteMaryland, on the other hand, looks sharp. They have a white cap with a red "M," and white uniforms with pinstripes and a red block "MARYLAND" across the front. On the back of their jerseys, they have red block numbers but no names. The Terps also go in for the old school stirrups in black. They look like a baseball team.
ReplyDeleteGood job by Under Armour, which has not always been so successful with their Maryland gear.
DeleteUVA's stadium is packed, by the way. COLLEGE BASEBALL!
ReplyDeleteAfter 5 1/2 innings, Maryland still leads 2-0.
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