re: (Unsticky Please Admins) tOfficial Regional Thread Scoreboard/Discussion Thread

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I hope this emotionally gassed unc for the Supers

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Never watched college baseball as much as I have this year. Love the move to the SEC.

Question for the SEC baseball fanatics. I noticed that 14 of the teams in were 1 seeds and the other 2 teams in so far are 2 seeds. Is that pretty typical? Obviously the 1 seeds are 1 seeds for a reason, but when I compare it to basketball, you get some 2's, 3's or 4's making the final 4 so I was wondering if you seldom see 3 and 4 seeds make it to the super regional or if this is the norm.

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It's probably more than typical, but comparing the NCAA postseason in college baseball to the NCAA postseason in college basketball is not the same: in basketball, the NCAA tournament is structured for regional venues that have nothing really to do with top-seeded teams. So while you may play in an arena in North Carolina if you're a highly seeded NC program, for example, it's never in your own home arena.

In College Baseball, the top seeds in Regionals typically are hosting in their own baseball stadiums. And as such, they typically have a monopoly on the crowd factor, and are in familiar surroundings. This is why schools want to host their regionals so badly: just check out USC's home postseason win streak these days. It means something...

So you typically have a larger percentage of #1 seeds - who were regional hosts in their own venues - advancing on to the Supers. And you also see how most of the top teams every year jockey so hard to get those national seeds, which mean they also get to host the Super Regionals. For the better programs, it's almost a red-carpet ticket to ride straight to Nebraska....