when do they announce the ncaa selections?

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nt

 

[ptrich]

Tomorrow (Memorial Day) at noon on ESPNU.

 

[HOOSIER BAIT]

thanks, I'll be watching

 

[MaryisCrazy]

Tomorrow (Memorial Day) at noon on ESPNU.

FIU (#142 rpi) definitely stole a bid by winning CUSA over FAU (#16 rpi) and Rice (#33). Texas just stole someone's bid away with a 86 RPI and 84 SOS by winning Big 12 title. Obviously, Michigan wouldn't have gotten a bid until they won the Big Ten tourney, even after the perfect 4-0 record against the final RPI teams of #32, #29, #13 and #42, they still are only #61 and #98 SOS.

Going to be super interesting to see how many Big Ten teams get in and where they get sent. Obviously, Illinois is announced as a regional host and Michigan is in too. Would expect Iowa and Indiana would be the only other two to make it. Maryland at #42 might be on the wrong side with the history of the Big Ten bids and 3 sure-fire bids stolen including Michigan. But UMD sorta still being thought of by many from ACC days may help them along with their run to title game that got them to 12-9 vs the top 50.

Quite frankly, four+ would be really
impressive for the conference as it is still a mid-major conference (although improving) still the 7th best RPI conference due to the amount of dreadful teams: Rutgers, PSU, Purdue, Northwestern and Minnesota are all about #150 or lower that absolutely kill the conference RPI. 5 out of only 13 competing schools being that awful is really harmful.

As a comparison, the SEC (#1 overall RPI) doesn't have a single school below #132 (Miss St) and they are the only school sub #95 out of 14. #2 overall the ACC has one single team out of 14 lower than #150 (Pitt at #162). Next lowest is Wake at #88.

Fyi, the other 15 regional hosts besides Illinois are Vandy, LSU, Florida and Tex A&M from the SEC. The ACC got Miami, FSU and Louisville. So 7 of the 16 hosts are from those 2 conferences. The rest are UCLA, Cal-Santa Barbara (they can't host at home though due to their venue so have to "host" on the road or at Lake Elsinore which is some 150 miles away), CSF, Houston, OK St, TCU, Missouri St and Houston.

Based on them trying their best to make baseball as geographically/regionally close as possible for travel, I suspect Indiana will be in Louisville or Vandy although Missouri State would be very good too but is that where Iowa goes? Hope we avoid Vandy at all costs out of those options. They have some big-time arms, that would be a disaster. Michigan will be interesting, I suspect they will really be traveling and maybe are sent to Vandy.

Always fun to see who makes it and what the matchups are as despite what they claim they definitely set up some "appeal" matchups for revenue reasons. Bunch of "smaller" school first-time hosts too: Dallas Baptist, Missouri St, Cal-SB and even Illinois.

Could be a really wild NCAA tourney. Or not.

 

[MaryisCrazy]

FIU (#142 rpi) definitely stole a bid by winning CUSA over FAU (#16 rpi) and Rice (#33). Texas just stole someone's bid away with a 86 RPI and 84 SOS by winning Big 12 title. Obviously, Michigan wouldn't have gotten a bid until they won the Big Ten tourney, even after the perfect 4-0 record against the final RPI teams of #32, #29, #13 and #42, they still are only #61 and #98 SOS.

Going to be super interesting to see how many Big Ten teams get in and where they get sent. Obviously, Illinois is announced as a regional host and Michigan is in too. Would expect Iowa and Indiana would be the only other two to make it. Maryland at #42 might be on the wrong side with the history of the Big Ten bids and 3 sure-fire bids stolen including Michigan. But UMD sorta still being thought of by many from ACC days may help them along with their run to title game that got them to 12-9 vs the top 50.

Quite frankly, four+ would be really
impressive for the conference as it is still a mid-major conference (although improving) still the 7th best RPI conference due to the amount of dreadful teams: Rutgers, PSU, Purdue, Northwestern and Minnesota are all about #150 or lower that absolutely kill the conference RPI. 5 out of only 13 competing schools being that awful is really harmful.

As a comparison, the SEC (#1 overall RPI) doesn't have a single school below #132 (Miss St) and they are the only school sub #95 out of 14. #2 overall the ACC has one single team out of 14 lower than #150 (Pitt at #162). Next lowest is Wake at #88.

Fyi, the other 15 regional hosts besides Illinois are Vandy, LSU, Florida and Tex A&M from the SEC. The ACC got Miami, FSU and Louisville. So 7 of the 16 hosts are from those 2 conferences. The rest are UCLA, Cal-Santa Barbara (they can't host at home though due to their venue so have to "host" on the road or at Lake Elsinore which is some 150 miles away), CSF, Houston, OK St, TCU, Missouri St and Houston.

Based on them trying their best to make baseball as geographically/regionally close as possible for travel, I suspect Indiana will be in Louisville or Vandy although Missouri State would be very good too but is that where Iowa goes? Hope we avoid Vandy at all costs out of those options. They have some big-time arms, that would be a disaster. Michigan will be interesting, I suspect they will really be traveling and maybe are sent to Vandy.

Always fun to see who makes it and what the matchups are as despite what they claim they definitely set up some "appeal" matchups for revenue reasons. Bunch of "smaller" school first-time hosts too: Dallas Baptist, Missouri St, Cal-SB and even Illinois.

Could be a really wild NCAA tourney. Or not.

Sigh. That stinks.