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Sunday - May 24, 2009
2009 NCAA Regional sites announced
The NCAA Regional Host Sites were announced a little before 3 p.m. today. Texas will host. I plan to attend all the games. As usual.
Here's a list of the Host sites and institutions (records thru May 23):
- Atlanta, GA - Georgia Tech (35-17-1, 17-10-1 ACC)
- Austin, TX - Texas (40-13-1, 17-9-1 Big 12)
- Baton Rouge, LA - LSU (45-16, 20-10 SEC)
- Chapel Hill, NC - North Carolina (42-16, 19-10 ACC)
- Clemson, SC - Clemson (40-19, 19-11 ACC)
- Fort Worth, TX - TCU (36-16, 15-5 Mountain West)
- Fullerton, CA - Cal State Fullerton (41-14, 16-7 Big West)
- Gainesville, FL - Florida (39-20, 19-11 SEC)
- Greenville, NC - East Carolina (42-17, 17-7 CUSA)
- Houston, TX - Rice (39-15, 16-8 CUSA)
- Irvine, CA - UT Irvine (42-13, 21-2 Big West)
- Louisville, KY - Louisville (43-15, 19-7 Big East)
- Norman, OK - Oklahoma (41-18, 17-10 Big 12)
- Oxford, MS - Ole Miss (40-17, 20-10 SEC)
- Tallahasse, FL - Florida State (42-15, 19-9 ACC)
- Tempe, AZ - Arizona State (43-12, 20-6 Pac 10)
By conference, the host sites play out like so:
- ACC: 4 Regionals
- SEC: 3 Regionals
- Big 12, Big West, C-USA: 2 Regionals
- Big East, Mountain West, Pac 10: 1 Regional
Here are the latest RPI calculations:
| Rank | NCAA (May 18) |
Boyd's World (May 24, 8:30am) |
Warren Nolan (May 24, 8:00pm) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 |
Cal State Fullerton North Carolina Texas Georgia Tech Arizona State Florida Clemson TCU Miami LSU Virginia Rice Arkansas Mississippi Oklahoma Florida State Texas A&M UC Irvine East Carolina Louisville |
Cal State Fullerton Texas North Carolina Georgia Tech Arizona State Florida Clemson TCU Virginia LSU Miami Rice Arkansas Florida State Texas A&M Oklahoma Mississippi UC Irvine Georgia Elon |
North Carolina Texas Cal State Fullerton Arizona State Georgia Tech Virginia LSU Florida Clemson Rice Miami TCU Florida State Arkansas Texas A&M Ole Miss UC Irvine Louisville Oklahoma Elon |
Last year, the lowest RPI team to host was Michigan (with a #37 RPI). This year, the lowest is 20 (using the older NCAA numbers). 'Wonder why they didn't go out of their way to get a Big 10 host this year? Minnesota has a 24 RPI and Ohio State is at 32. Both are higher than Michigan was last year. Hmmmm... I know the folks up north don't like it but I'm happy to see the committee not folding to pressure from those schools.
Looking at the top 20 in the polls (as of May 18), we see:
| Rank | Collegiate Baseball |
Baseball America |
NCBWA | USA Today/ ESPN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 |
UC Irvine LSU Arizona State North Carolina CS Fullerton Texas Florida State Ole Miss Florida Oklahoma Rice Alabama Clemson Georgia Tech Missouri Miami Louisville East Carolina TCU South Carolina |
UC Irvine LSU Arizona State CS Fullerton Texas North Carolina Ole Miss Oklahoma Florida TCU Rice Florida State Clemson Georgia Tech East Carolina Virginia Kansas State Alabama Cal Poly Louisville |
UC Irvine LSU Arizona State North Carolina CS Fullerton Texas Florida State Ole Miss Rice Oklahoma Florida TCU Georgia Tech Virginia Clemson Miami East Carolina Coastal Carolina Texas A&M Arkansas |
UC-Irvine Arizona State LSU North Carolina Texas CS Fullerton Florida State Ole Miss Rice Florida Oklahoma Georgia Tech Clemson TCU Virginia East Carolina Miami Alabama Coastal Carolina Kansas State |
I don't have the energy to really go into any of this in depth. I'll likely have more to say once the field of 64 is announced (11:30 tomorrow on ESPN).
Posted by Joanna at 9:01 PM