Introducing…College Baseball Bracketology
Over at 5 Borough Sports, we are pretty into College Baseball, so I thought I’d take a rare stab at College Baseball NCAA Tournament Projections. Very few people actually do this, so perhaps we’ll get ahead of the game and learn about it.
I have to say my interest in College Baseball has been much shorter lived than my College Basketball days, but this Bracket Projection does not come to you as a blind projection.
I did an extensive amount of research on how to put one of these brackets together and tried to obey all rules of College Baseball Brackets.
I will put the National Seed Brackets followed by their corresponding matchup for the Super Regional.
If you don’t understand the NCAA Baseball tournament, I’ll briefly explain…
You start with 16 sites with 4 teams at each for a total of 64.
At each site in the first round, the teams play a double elimination format to determine one winner from each site.
The next round you matchup the winners of two sites and play a best of three series, to narrow it to 8 teams.
Finally, the 8 teams go to Omaha for the College World Series. There they are broken into two separate groups of 4, who then play another double elimination tournament to get down to 2 teams remaining. Those two play a best of 3 for the National Title.
This year the National Seeds (the top 8 teams in the country) look to be pretty set already, although we could see some changes.
Hosts of the next round could flux over the next two weeks, as today I moved Clemson and Oklahoma up to host, and Southern Miss and Stetson down as they had a couple rough weeks. I still think they could change back, and these teams will determine their outcomes with they finish over the final two weeks.
On the bubble moved Ole Miss, Tulane, and SE Louisiana onto the right side, while keeping out Texas Tech, LSU and Jacksonville amongst others. LSU is the most strange team in the country, as they have dominated out of conference competition, but struggled mightily in conference. I think they have a real good chance but must win their series with Mississippi State this weekend and hope they can make the SEC tournament.
Look for more college baseball coverage over the coming weeks, including a look at the new home of the College World Series, TD Ameritrade Park Omaha.
Anyway, here is the trial run at College Baseball Bracketology, hope you enjoy.
Click Below for 5BS’ first College Baseball Bracketology:
#1- Charlottesville Regional
Virginia
ECU
UCF
Princeton
Houston Regional
Rice
California
Creighton
Kent State
#2- Nashville Regional
Vanderbilt
Baylor
NC State
Navy
Chapel Hill Regional
UNC
Elon
Georgia
Manhattan
#3-Columbia Regional
South Carolina
Miami
Coastal Carolina
Old Dominion
Atlanta Regional
Georgia Tech
UConn
Troy
Stony Brook
#4-Corvalis Regional
Oregon State
Fresno Sttae
SE Louisiana
Gonzaga
Fullerton Regional
Cal State Fullerton
UCLA
Tulane
Hawaii
#5- Austin Regional
Texas
Alabama
East Tennessee State
Michigan State
Fort Worth Regional
TCU
Oklahoma State
Texas State
Austin Peay
#6- Tallahassee Regional
Florida State
Florida International
Mississippi State
Monmouth
Norman Regional
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Arizona
Alcorn State
#7- Gainesville Regional
Florida
Stetson
Florida Atlantic
Bethune Cookman
Clemson Regional
Clemson
Southern Mississippi
Auburn
Charlotte
#8-Tempe Regional
Arizona State***
UC Irvine
Kansas State
South Dakota State
College Station Regional
Texas A&M
Stanford
Ole Miss
Wright State
Last Six In-
Kansas State
SE Louisiana
Ole Miss
Florida Atlantic
East Tennessee State
Tulane
First Teams Out-
LSU
Jacksonville
Texas Tech
St. John’s
Sam Houston State
UAB
Louisiana
Dallas Baptist
James Madison
UNLV
Nebraska
***Arizona State is currently eligible because they appealed to the NCAA for their one-year ban from postseason play, it is likely they will participate this year because a ruling on the appeal is not expected until after the start of the tournament. If the ruling is upheld but after the start of the tournament, they will be banned next season
5 BOROUGH SPORTS 
May 16, 2011 at 10:20 pm
What about the Diamond deacs? is there any possibility for 8 acc teams or the wake forest wrecking crew?
May 16, 2011 at 11:01 pm
I wish I could add Wake, but NCAA rules state that you must have atleast a 500. record to get an at-large bid…the good news is tho, Wake isn’t out of it yet, they can have a strong showing against Maryland this weekend and then head to the ACC tournament and pull the upset
May 17, 2011 at 11:34 am
I question your research, as a SEC fan, I pull for all 12 teams (Tennessee the least). NCAA rules state that a team MUST have a winning record OR win their conference tournament. Georgia is currently 26-26 and has a cupcake (who beat them earlier in the year) and then 3 games with Nationally ranked Vanderbilt this weekend. UGA has already made the SEC tourney, so there is 2 automatic losses. Unfortunately, UGA is 15-12 in SEC play, but played poorly in non-conference games and that will be their downfall. There is a slim chance that Georgia will make the field of 64.
May 17, 2011 at 12:45 pm
you’re absolutely right…I thought they were 2 or 3 games over .500…the interesting thing is that it’s probably going to come down entirely to if they can finish at 500 or not…if they do, they’ll make it, but probably as a 3 seed in a region…and if not, well then they go home…I did not realize they play Vandy this weekend, so it’ll be very tough for them to win despite their great RPI and SOS
May 17, 2011 at 8:23 pm
If you look at the total body of work, Mississippi State is easily a two seed over Florida International. State has wins over Fla, S. Caro., and Vandy all have been number 1 and will be national seeds. State swept a ranked Auburn team and Tennessee, and have beaten Ole Miss three out of four games this year on the road. They also have a midweek win over ranked Southern Miss. Who has FIU beaten? MSU’s RPI is top 25 currently