Posted on 05/28/2006 6:47:31 PM PDT by catholicfreeper
First time in 17 years that LSU isnt hosting a Regional(sigh) Well I hope we get an invite tomorrow.
Thanks for posting. Looking forward to watching some games.
No problem I am going to try to post some updates till the College World Series
1st Update. Ole MIss just won the SEC Tourney(Yuck)
GO LONGHORNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO TAR HEELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hopefully at 11:30 tomorrow I can put the purple and gold one up lol
The tournament is historically double-elimination. One year they sold out to TV though. Ordinarily in a double-elimination tournament, the WOL (Winner of the Losers) has to beat the WOW (Winner of the Winners) twice. However TV didn't want to show 2 games so the WOL had to beat the WOW only once.
I thought I had heard that now they put the 8 finalists into 2 groups of 4, hold a double-elimination tournament for each set of 4, then one game determines the final champion. True?? The website explained only that the 64 finalists get whittled down to 16 and then 8 (what, 2 teams to each of 8 super-regionals, and they play each other best 2 of 3?) but not how the 8 get whittled down to 1.
speaking of SEC baseball...check out this video clip of the Arkansas catcher faking like he got hit with a pitch vs. Mississippi..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueLI3ALKfs4&search=ole%20miss%20
Oh yeah I saw that. Its like he should get a Emmy lol
At least you're in better shape than last year's national runner-ups.
I hope the Arkansas coach tore into the Arkansas catcher good (especially after seing the video & after he went out to defend him).
Right. 2 teams to each Super Regional and who wins 2 out of 3. So 8 go to the Worlds Series Yeah you have it right I think as to dividing the groups into double elimination brackets in the College World series
This is link to a pdf file showing the times of the games and aceduale for 2006.= in the CWS
http://www.cwsomaha.com/media/gameschedule.pdf
Yeah I was shocked by Florida this year. OF course the SEC is tough this year. Got 5 sec teams hosting. But when we played a few weeks ago we were pretty evenly matched lol
BTW, have you heard of this article that was in the commercial appeal where its reported that a current Football Coach in the sec has been turned by 6 coaches(not all in the SEC) for recruiting violations
Hmmm...by my calculations, it should take 14 or 15 games to whittle down 8 teams to 1 in a double-elimination tournament, and 6 or 7 to whittle down 4 teams to 1 in a double-elimination tournament. (So it would take 12-14 games for 2 such brackets). I see games 13 and 14 are declared "if necessary."
So it would appear that the final two teams play best two-of-three for the championship rather than the WOL having to beat the WOW twice or the WOW having to beat the WOL only once in a two game set.
Hmmm...by my calculations, it should take 14 or 15 games to whittle down 8 teams to 1 in a double-elimination tournament, and 6 or 7 to whittle down 4 teams to 1 in a double-elimination tournament. (So it would take 12-14 games for 2 such brackets). I see games 13 and 14 are declared "if necessary."
So it would appear that the final two teams play best two-of-three for the championship rather than the WOL having to beat the WOW twice or the WOW having to beat the WOL only once in a two game set.
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