2014 CWS

Post by **Coyote** » Thu May 15, 2014 10:28 am

Getting ready for the party...

CWS names band for opening ceremonies concert

Kevin Coffey: World-Herald staff writer wrote:The College World Series has selected indie rock band Young the Giant to headline its opening ceremonies festivities.

Post by **Brad** » Thu May 15, 2014 10:31 am

Never heard of them.

Wonder if it will get rained out for the third year in a row?

Post by **Coyote** » Thu May 15, 2014 10:43 am

I was kind of hoping to hear someone say "heck yeah" and tell us who they were...

guitarguy · Post by **guitarguy** » Thu May 15, 2014 11:19 am

I've heard of them and like them but mostly because that's the scene I live my life in being in the business. They deserve the play and in a city like Omaha will be welcome here.

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Thu May 15, 2014 3:30 pm

Actually a impressive get for the CWS. They are getting really high billing/headlining at a number of festivals bigger than Maha this summer.

Post by **Coyote** » Sat May 17, 2014 9:49 pm

Yesterday's RPIs:

4. Indiana
29. Nebraska
48. Illinois
96. Minnesota
101. Iowa

77. Creighton
92. Seton Hall
102. Xavier
103. St. John's

16. Indiana St.
37. Dallas Baptist
55. Evansville
83. Illinois St.
90. Wichita St

188. UNO

Post by **Coyote** » Sat May 17, 2014 10:05 pm

2014 projections (the Stillwater Regional looks interesting)

Charlottesville Regional Columbia Regional
1 Virginia (1) 1 South Carolina
2 Liberty 2 Maryland
3 West Virginia 3 Old Dominion
4 William & Mary 4 Western Illinois

Lafayette Regional Houston Regional (Rice)
1 Louisiana-Lafayette (8) 1 Rice
2 Alabama 2 Texas A&M
3 Clemson 3 Sam Houston State
4 Stony Brook 4 St. Joseph’s

Bloomington Regional Stillwater Regional
1 Indiana (4) 1 Oklahoma State
2 Kentucky 2 Louisville
3 Bryant 3 Nebraska
4 Ball State 4 Creighton

Tallahassee Regional Oxford Regional
1 Florida State (5) 1 Mississippi
2 Mercer 2 UNLV
3 Mississippi State 3 North Carolina
4 Bethune-Cookman. 4 SE Missouri State

Gainesville Regional Miami Regional
1 Florida (3) 1 Miami
2 Georgia Tech 2 Oregon
3 Central Florida 3 Arkansas
4 Wright State 4 Columbia

Nashville Regional Seattle Regional
1 Vanderbilt (6) 1 Washington
2 Indiana State 2 UC Irvine
3 Kansas 3 Tennessee
4 Evansville 4 Canisius

Corvallis Regional Ft. Worth Regional
1 Oregon State (2) 1 TCU
2 Cal Poly 2 Pepperdine
3 San Diego State 3 Arizona State
4 Sacramento State 4 Bucknell

Houston Regional (Houston) Baton Rouge Regional
1 Houston (7) 1 LSU
2 Texas 2 Texas Tech
3 Dallas Baptist 3 New Mexico
4 Davidson 4 Alabama State

Huskerbaseball13 · Post by **Huskerbaseball13** » Mon May 19, 2014 10:19 am

Coyote wrote:2014 projections (the Stillwater Regional looks interesting)

Charlottesville Regional    Columbia Regional
1    Virginia (1)    1    South Carolina
2    Liberty    2    Maryland
3    West Virginia    3    Old Dominion
4    William & Mary 4    Western Illinois

Lafayette Regional    Houston Regional (Rice)
1    Louisiana-Lafayette (8)    1    Rice
2    Alabama 2    Texas A&M
3    Clemson 3    Sam Houston State
4    Stony Brook 4    St. Joseph’s

Bloomington Regional    Stillwater Regional
1    Indiana (4)    1    Oklahoma State
2    Kentucky    2    Louisville
3    Bryant    3    Nebraska
4    Ball State    4    Creighton

Tallahassee Regional    Oxford Regional
1    Florida State (5)    1    Mississippi
2    Mercer 2    UNLV
3    Mississippi State 3    North Carolina
4    Bethune-Cookman.    4    SE Missouri State

Gainesville Regional    Miami Regional
1    Florida (3) 1    Miami
2    Georgia Tech 2    Oregon
3    Central Florida 3    Arkansas
4    Wright State 4    Columbia

Nashville Regional    Seattle Regional
1    Vanderbilt (6) 1    Washington
2    Indiana State 2    UC Irvine
3    Kansas 3    Tennessee
4    Evansville 4    Canisius

Corvallis Regional    Ft. Worth Regional
1    Oregon State (2)    1    TCU
2    Cal Poly    2    Pepperdine
3    San Diego State    3    Arizona State
4    Sacramento State    4    Bucknell

Houston Regional (Houston)    Baton Rouge Regional
1    Houston (7)    1    LSU
2    Texas    2    Texas Tech
3    Dallas Baptist 3    New Mexico
4    Davidson 4    Alabama State

Win the Big 10 Tourny or finish second behind Indiana and NU should get a two seed. I would like to fall in the Stillwater or Houston regional.

Post by **Coyote** » Mon May 19, 2014 10:53 am

Huskerbaseball13 wrote:Win the Big 10 Tourny or finish second behind Indiana and NU should get a two seed. I would like to fall in the Stillwater or Houston regional.

At this point I would think the same. Two wins in the B1G Tournament and NU gets a second seed.
Only hold back would be the perceived strength of the B1B.

NCAA Division I Conference RPI

1 0.565 SEC
2 0.559 Big 12
3 0.544 ACC
4 0.538 Pac 12
5 0.529 Big West
6 0.527 MVC
7 0.525 American Athletic
8 0.520 C-USA
9 0.519 Mountain West
10 0.518 Big Ten
11 0.516 Sun Belt
12 0.505 Southern
13 0.503 CAA
14 0.495 WCC
15 0.494 Southland
16 0.494 Atlantic Sun
17 0.493 Big South
18 0.493 Big East
19 0.488 NEC
20 0.484 MAC
21 0.481 OVC
22 0.478 Ivy
23 0.475 Patriot
24 0.473 America East
25 0.472 Atlantic 10
26 0.457 WAC
27 0.455 Summit
28 0.454 MAAC
29 0.451 Horizon
30 0.434 MEAC
31 0.416 SWAC
32 0.386. Independents

Huskerbaseball13 · Post by **Huskerbaseball13** » Mon May 19, 2014 1:57 pm

Coyote wrote:
Huskerbaseball13 wrote:Win the Big 10 Tourny or finish second behind Indiana and NU should get a two seed. I would like to fall in the Stillwater or Houston regional.
At this point I would think the same. Two wins in the B1G Tournament and NU gets a second seed.
Only hold back would be the perceived strength of the B1B.

NCAA Division I Conference RPI

1 0.565 SEC
2 0.559 Big 12
3 0.544 ACC
4 0.538 Pac 12
5 0.529 Big West
6 0.527 MVC
7 0.525 American Athletic
8 0.520 C-USA
9 0.519 Mountain West
10 0.518 Big Ten
11 0.516 Sun Belt
12 0.505 Southern
13 0.503 CAA
14 0.495 WCC
15 0.494 Southland
16 0.494 Atlantic Sun
17 0.493 Big South
18 0.493 Big East
19 0.488 NEC
20 0.484 MAC
21 0.481 OVC
22 0.478 Ivy
23 0.475 Patriot
24 0.473 America East
25 0.472 Atlantic 10
26 0.457 WAC
27 0.455 Summit
28 0.454 MAAC
29 0.451 Horizon
30 0.434 MEAC
31 0.416 SWAC
32 0.386. Independents

NU did place a bid to host a regional...so if they sweep the Big 10 Tournament that may be a possibility.

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Wed May 21, 2014 6:38 pm

ESPN is counting down the top 25 Major Leaguers with the most impact on the CWS over the next 25 days. Calling it #CWS25
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/10963632/

Post by **Coyote** » Sat May 24, 2014 9:57 pm

Looks like a bubble team got a reprieve:

Dallas Baptist 4
Illinois St. 1

The Mo Valley will only get two teams in this year, Dallas Baptist and Indiana St. , #1 seed Evansville, and now Illinois St. are now done.

Post by **Coyote** » Sun May 25, 2014 11:12 pm

Regional host sites:

LSU
Indiana
Miami (FL)
Virginia
Florida
South Carolina
TCU
Oregon State
Ole Miss
Cal Poly
Florida State
Oklahoma State
Rice
Louisiana-Lafayette
Vanderbilt
Louisville

Post by **Coyote** » Sun May 25, 2014 11:44 pm

2014 NCAA Automatic Bids

America East. Binghamton. 25-25 (11-12)
American. Houston. 44-15 (14-9)
Atlantic Coast. Georgia Tech. 36-25 (14-16)
Atlantic Sun. Kennesaw State. 37-21 (17-9)
Atlantic 10. George Mason. 30-20 (16-9)
Big 12. TCU. 38-15 (17-7)
Big East. Xavier. 29-27 (8-10)
Big South. Campbell. 40-19 (18-8)
Big Ten. Indiana. 42-13 (21-3)
Big West. Cal Poly. 45–10 (19–5)
Colonial. Coll. of Charleston 41-17 (15-6)
Conference USA Rice 41-18 (23-7)
Horizon. Youngstown State. 15–36 (6–17)
Ivy League. Columbia. 27–17 (15–5)
Metro Atlantic. Siena. 26-31 (17-7)
Mid-American. Kent State. 32–21 (16–11)
Mid-Eastern. Bethune-Cookman. 26–31 (14–10)
Missouri Valley. Dallas Baptist. 40–19 (14–7)
Mountain West. San Diego State. 37–18 (17–13)
Northeast. Bryant. 41–14 (19–5)
Ohio Valley. Jacksonville State. 34–25 (18–12)
Pacific-12. Oregon State. 42-11 (23-6)
Patriot. Bucknell. 29-17-1 (15-5)
Southeastern. LSU. 42–14–1 (17–11–1)
Southern. Georgia Southern. 39–21 (15–12)
Southland. SE Louisiana. 29–21 (14–10)
Southwestern Athletic. Jackson State. 31–23 (9–15)
Summit. North Dakota State. 21–24 (9–12)
Sun Belt. Louisiana-Lafayette. 53-7 (26-4)
West Coast. Pepperdine. 39-16 (18-9)
Western Athletic. Sacramento State. 39-22 (21-6)

Post by **Coyote** » Mon May 26, 2014 11:08 am

Regionals:

Oregon State (1)
Florida (2)
Virginia (3)
Indiana (4)
Florida State (5)
Louisiana-Lafayette (6)
TCU (7)
LSU (8)

Post by **Coyote** » Mon May 26, 2014 11:44 am

Regionals:

Oregon State (1)
Florida (2)
Virginia (3)
Indiana (4)
Florida State (5)
Louisiana-Lafayette (6)
TCU (7)
LSU (8)

Rice (9)
Cal Poly (10)
Ole Miss (11)
Louisville (12)
Vanderbilt (13) Xavier
South Carolina (14)
Miami (FL) (15)
Oklahoma State (16), Nebraska(17) vs Cal. St Fullerton

Post by **Coyote** » Mon May 26, 2014 11:50 am

Sec 10
Acc 7
Big 12 5
Pac 12 5
Big West 4

Last 4 In
Clemson
North Carolina
Texas A&M

Last 4 Out
Mercer
UCF
USC

MadMartin8 · Post by **MadMartin8** » Mon May 26, 2014 12:04 pm

Here is the actual bracket:

http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/baseball/d1

I'd be surprised if Nebraska made it out of the regional. CSF and Okla St are tough draws.

Post by **Coyote** » Fri May 30, 2014 1:54 am

2014 CWS National Anthem:

• Creighton Prep Chamber Choir, June 14, 2 p.m.
• Local Omaha Trio, June 14, 7 p.m.
• Voices of Boys Town, June 15, 2 p.m.
• Nate Simons (on saxophone), June 15, 7 p.m.
• Collin Wyler, June 16, 2 p.m.
• Boomers, June 16, 7 p.m.
• Pflug Family Singers, June 17, 2 p.m.
• Emma Scheel, June 17, 7 p.m.
• DeJa Blu, June 18, 7 p.m.
• Hannah Goebel, June 19, 7 p.m.
• Nickolas Fleissner, June 20, 2 p.m.
• Mark Lindquist, June 20, 7 p.m.
• Jeff James (on trombone), June 21, 2 p.m.
• The Littles, June 21, 7 p.m.
• U.S. Air Force Heartland of America Band vocalist Tech. Sgt. Ken Maxwell, June 23, 7 p.m., Finals Game 1
• Drew Duncan, June 24, 7 p.m., Finals Game 2.
• Joan’s Boys, June 25, 7 p.m., Finals Game 3.

Post by **Coyote** » Sat May 31, 2014 12:49 pm

From yesterday

Big 12. 5-0
Big West 4-0
Pac 12. 3-1
SEC. 5-4
ACC 3-3

FSU lost yesterday, and is down so far today.

Post by **Coyote** » Sat May 31, 2014 3:17 pm

#5 National seed FSU is 2&Q for the first time since 1984. Jameis Winston is not bringing his lobster legs to Omaha. Sorry ACC.
FSU scores 5 in the bottom of the 9th, for their first scores of the regional but still come up one short.

Post by **Coyote** » Sat May 31, 2014 6:48 pm

#2 National seed Florida is 2&Q'd by North Carolina!
First time two national seeds have gone 2&Q.

Linkin5 · Post by **Linkin5** » Sat May 31, 2014 7:45 pm

I didn't realize the ACC hasn't won the CWS since 1955, how is that even possible?

Post by **Coyote** » Sat May 31, 2014 7:56 pm

Linkin5 wrote:I didn't realize the ACC hasn't won the CWS since 1955, how is that even possible?

yep. Wake Forrest. That has been a big question for years now... Miami doesn't count...
Another reason to root for the Hoos.

Post by **Coyote** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 2:12 pm

Kennesaw St. Just beat Alabama to reach the Super Regional at Louisville. A Div II Champs in 1996, a Div I team since 2006, they have won 26 of their last 28 games. They may be Omaha's darlings if they get past Louisville.

skinzfan23 · Post by **skinzfan23** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 2:22 pm

Coyote wrote:Kennesaw St. Just beat Alabama to reach the Super Regional at Louisville. A Div II Champs in 1996, a Div I team since 2006, they have won 26 of their last 28 games. They may be Omaha's darlings if they get past Louisville.

Lets hope they do.

Post by **Coyote** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 4:49 pm

The College of Charleston just made their way to the Supers after beating the Dirtbags.
They will face the winner of Miami/Texas Tech winner.
One of only 4 fourth seeds to make it to the Supers since the CWS changed their format in 1999.

Post by **Coyote** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 5:48 pm

And Texas Tech beats Miami for their first Super Regional to host the College of Charleton
There will be no school from Florida coming to Omaha!
And three Big 12 Schools are into the Super Regionals.

Post by **Coyote** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 9:15 pm

Coyote wrote:Three Big 12 Schools are into the Super Regionals.

And Texas makes four.

Post by **Coyote** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 10:24 pm

Stanford hits a 2 run HR in the bottom of the 9th to send B1G Indiana home.

Post by **Coyote** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 10:46 pm

National #8 seed LSU goes down big to Houston.

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 11:07 pm

Wow lots of big boys going down. Could be an interesting week in Omaha.

MadMartin8 · Post by **MadMartin8** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 11:09 pm

...has there ever been so many top 8 seeds go down in one year? Here's to hoping Texas gets knocked out so we get a lot of new faces in Omaha.

Post by **Coyote** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 11:22 pm

1. Oregon St.
2. Florida
3. Virginia
4. Indiana
5. Florida State
6. Louisiana-Lafayette
7. TCU
8. LSU

Post by **Coyote** » Tue Jun 03, 2014 1:02 am

Down goes National #1 seed Oregon St.
Only one other #1 didn't make it out of the Regionals (Vanderbilt 2007) since 1999,
Same year the most National seeds didn't make it (5),
2014 now ties that record.

Post by **Coyote** » Tue Jun 03, 2014 1:06 am

And now the Super Regionals are set:

UC Irvine Texas Tech
Oklahoma St. College of Charleston

Texas TCU
Houston Pepperdine

Louisville La.-Lafayette
Kennesaw St. Ole Miss

Vanderbilt Virginia
Stanford Maryland

Big 12. 4 OSU, TCU, UT, TTech
SEC. 2 Ole Miss, Vandy
ACC. 2 Virginia, Maryland
AAC. 2 Louisville, Houston
Pac 12. 1 Stanford
Sun Belt. 1 La-Lafayette
Big West. 1 UCI
WCC. 1 Pepperdine
CAA. 1 Coll. Charleston
Atl Sun. 1 Kennesaw St.

Post by **Coyote** » Tue Jun 03, 2014 2:02 am

CWS Appearances and Titles

UC Irvine '07
Coll. of Charleston
Houston '53 '67
Kennesaw St.
La.-Lafayette '00
Louisville '07 '13
Maryland
Ole Miss '56 '64 '69 '72
Oklahoma St. '54 '55 '59-'61 '66-'68 '81-'87 '90 '93 '96 '99
Pepperdine '79 '92
Stanford '53 '67 '82-'83 '85 '87-'88 '90 '95 '97 '00-'03 '08
Texas '49-'50 '52-'53 '57 '61-'63 '65-'66 '68-'70 '72-'75 '79 '81-(83)-'85 '87 '89 '92-'93 '00 '02-'05 '09 '11
TCU '10
Texas Tech
Vanderbilt '11
Virginia '09 '11

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Sat Jun 07, 2014 4:11 pm

Texas is the first team to punch their ticket to Omaha.

MadMartin8 · Post by **MadMartin8** » Sat Jun 07, 2014 5:42 pm

iamjacobm wrote:Texas is the first team to punch their ticket to Omaha.

Barf.

Post by **Coyote** » Sat Jun 07, 2014 6:44 pm

iamjacobm wrote:Texas is the first team to punch their ticket to Omaha.

Texas is the first team Omaha wants to punch.