Indiana State has been selected as one of the regional hosts...

[ptrich]

The selection committee released the sites of the regionals in advance of the announcement of the full field tomorrow on ESPN2 at noon (ET).

With Indiana St. hosting, here is hoping we end up there. The SEC landed a record eight schools hosting this season. Here is the list:

The 16 hosts, in alphabetical order:

Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)

Arkansas (Fayetteville, Ark.)

Auburn (Auburn, Ala.)

Clemson (Clemson, S.C.)

Coastal Carolina (Conway, S.C.)

Florida (Gainesville, Fla.)

Indiana State (Terre Haute, Ind.)

Kentucky (Lexington, Ky.)

LSU (Baton Rouge, La.)

Miami (Coral Gables, Fla.)

Oklahoma State (Stillwater, Okla.)

South Carolina (Columbia, S.C.)

Stanford (Stanford, Calif.)

Vanderbilt (Nashville, Tenn.)

Virginia (Charlottesville, Va.)

Wake Forest (Winston-Salem, N.C.)

 

[ptrich]

D1Baseball just made their final projections a few minutes ago and all of this will be moot in about 12 hours, but they continue to have IU in the Terre Haute Regional. They continue to have Maryland as a 2-seed in Baton Rouge, but they have moved Iowa as a 3-seed to Charlottesville.

TERRE HAUTE

1 Indiana State
4 Ball State

2 Tennessee
3 Indiana

 

[Next time]

I’d like to understand what the requirements are to host from a facility and surrounding area is? ISU absolutely deserves to host and their facility isn’t bad, but TH has nothing. Should move it to Indy.

 

[Shuski]

There are no actual requirements for what you are asking. If you are one of the sixteen selected, you host. I live in Terre Haute and it does not offer a lot but it has plenty for an avid baseball fan and enough to do when you are not hanging out at the stadium. There are hotels, bars and restaurants downtown within walking distance of the stadium. The number of fans for a baseball regional can be easily accommodated here in Terre Haute.

 

[Im4iu89]

IU in Kentucky bracket with Ball State and West Virginia

 

[ptrich]

IU in Kentucky bracket with Ball State and West Virginia

They haven't got to it yet. but watch them put Iowa in the Indiana State regional.

 

[BCCHoosier]

They haven't got to it yet. but watch them put Iowa in the Indiana State regional.

Exactly what happened. Not that familiar with the teams. Would we have been better off in Terre Haute?

 

[Im4iu89]

Exactly what happened. Not that familiar with the teams. Would we have been better off in Terre Haute?

We got drubbed by Kentucky and beat Indiana State, albeit the games were mid-week.

 

[SRIV94]

We got drubbed by Kentucky and beat Indiana State, albeit the games were mid-week.

INST also beat us in Terre Haute.

 

[Orford]

it doesn’t really matter where we go. We didn’t seem ready to play in big. I like Mercer as leader and steady hand of this team but his comment that IU was tired and needed rest was laughable… call a spade a spade and admit we stunk it up but have an opportunity to catch fire in ncaa and play much better baseball.

 

[ptrich]

it doesn’t really matter where we go. We didn’t seem ready to play in big. I like Mercer as leader and steady hand of this team but his comment that IU was tired and needed rest was laughable… call a spade a spade and admit we stunk it up but have an opportunity to catch fire in ncaa and play much better baseball.

In the tournament, we played almost 15 straight innings of good winning baseball to start out, with the exception of that 9th inning against Illinois, and then played 12 straight innings of bad baseball with both our fielding and pitching collapsing down the stretch.

Not having a healthy Kraft really hurt, and hopefully a healthy Kraft will be available in the regional. They said that Kraft's arm strain was not serious and he may be back for the regional, so here's hoping for his return. Yoho who had been pitching well, had a very off outing against Iowa which started the late game collapse against them, and here's hoping that was an aberration. We have some pitchers that seem to run hot and cold, and here's hoping we get their "A" game.

Which IU team shows up is anyone's guess.