Bracketology 2024

[Otis 83]

4 hours ago, Old Titan said:

Somebody at Baseball America has a sick sense of humor:  their latest regional projection is "The Payback Tour" for ORU's 2023 postseason opponents:

1. Oklahoma State
2. Dallas Baptist
3. Oregon
4. ORU

 

The Pokes dropped a game to 8th seed UCF late last night.  They should be on the list of those "respectively scrambling for their regional-hosting lives" as many had them as the 16 seed hosting.  I do have to believe this bracket projection was a bit although I can guarantee you no one from the other three schools is laughing.

[Bogus Smith]

D!Baseball's latest Projection of the 64 teams has ORU the #4 seed in Fayetteville, AR with La Tech and K-State.  That would be a good one to get into and much better than facing DBU, UO and OSU that have an ax to grind with us.

2024 D1Baseball Field of 64 Projections: May 24 • D1Baseball

[ORUJason]

Although Arkansas would be a very difficult opponent to move past in order to win a regional.

[ORUJason]

Collegesportsmadness.com projects ORU as a 4 seed at Texas A&M, with Texas as a 2 seed and Lamar as a 3 seed.

Collegesportsmadness.com Projection

[Bogus Smith]

On 5/25/2024 at 7:00 PM, ORUJason said:

Collegesportsmadness.com projects ORU as a 4 seed at Texas A&M, with Texas as a 2 seed and Lamar as a 3 seed.

Collegesportsmadness.com Projection

That would match us up with our old pitching coach, Sean Snedeker, who is the pitching coach at Lamar. 

[ORUTex]

Regional sites were announced tonight:

 

The 16 regional sites, with host institutions and records are as follows: 

• Athens, Georgia – Georgia (39-15)
• Chapel Hill, North Carolina – North Carolina (42-13)
• Charlottesville, Virginia – Virginia (41-15)
• Clemson, South Carolina – Clemson (41-14)
• Bryan-College Station, Texas – Texas A&M (44-13)
• Corvallis, Oregon – Oregon State (42-14)
• Fayetteville, Arkansas – Arkansas (43-14)
• Greenville, North Carolina – East Carolina (43-15)
• Knoxville, Tennessee – Tennessee (50-11) 
• Lexington, Kentucky – Kentucky (40-14) 
• Norman, Oklahoma – Oklahoma (37-19) 
• Raleigh, North Carolina – NC State (33-20) 
• Santa Barbara, California – UC Santa Barbara (42-12) 
• Stillwater, Oklahoma – Oklahoma State (40-17) 
• Tallahassee, Florida – Florida State (42-15)
• Tucson, Arizona – Arizona (36-21)

https://www.ncaa.com/news/baseball/article/2024-05-26/sixteen-regional-sites-selected-2024-ncaa-di-baseball-championship

 

[Old Titan]

39 minutes ago, ORUTex said:

Regional sites were announced tonight:

 

The 16 regional sites, with host institutions and records are as follows: 

• Athens, Georgia – Georgia (39-15)
• Chapel Hill, North Carolina – North Carolina (42-13)
• Charlottesville, Virginia – Virginia (41-15)
• Clemson, South Carolina – Clemson (41-14)
• Bryan-College Station, Texas – Texas A&M (44-13)
• Corvallis, Oregon – Oregon State (42-14)
• Fayetteville, Arkansas – Arkansas (43-14)
• Greenville, North Carolina – East Carolina (43-15)
• Knoxville, Tennessee – Tennessee (50-11) 
• Lexington, Kentucky – Kentucky (40-14) 
• Norman, Oklahoma – Oklahoma (37-19) 
• Raleigh, North Carolina – NC State (33-20) 
• Santa Barbara, California – UC Santa Barbara (42-12) 
• Stillwater, Oklahoma – Oklahoma State (40-17) 
• Tallahassee, Florida – Florida State (42-15)
• Tucson, Arizona – Arizona (36-21)

https://www.ncaa.com/news/baseball/article/2024-05-26/sixteen-regional-sites-selected-2024-ncaa-di-baseball-championship

 

Only surprise is Arizona stealing a site from the likes of Florida, Florida State, or Wake Forest. That now means three regionals west of the Great Plains as opposed to only two (Corvallis and Santa Barbara) that had been predicted  

And, based on what we saw this weekend, all 16 of the No. 1 Seeds are going to bed tonight with the same thought keeping them awake: “Please don’t give us Dallas Baptist as a No. 2”.

[Bogus Smith]

15 minutes ago, Old Titan said:

Only surprise is Arizona stealing a site from the likes of Florida, Florida State, or Wake Forest. That now means three regionals west of the Great Plains as opposed to only two (Corvallis and Santa Barbara) that had been predicted  

And, based on what we saw this weekend, all 16 of the No. 1 Seeds are going to bed tonight with the same thought keeping them awake: “Please don’t give us Dallas Baptist as a No. 2”.

Haha!  And, ORU has three sites to be sent to that would save on travel costs - Norman, Stillwater, and Fayetteville.  All three locations have familiarity to the Golden Eagles that could provide them with comfort of their surroundings.  With ORU's RPI and SOS, they should be a #4 against one of the top 8 national seeds.  Hopefully it won't be to College Station just for travel reasons.  Regardless, we should have the 6:00 game in any of the locations as the host team gets to select their preferred time to play.

[Old Titan]

2 hours ago, Bogus Smith said:

Haha!  And, ORU has three sites to be sent to that would save on travel costs - Norman, Stillwater, and Fayetteville.  All three locations have familiarity to the Golden Eagles that could provide them with comfort of their surroundings.  With ORU's RPI and SOS, they should be a #4 against one of the top 8 national seeds.  Hopefully it won't be to College Station just for travel reasons.  Regardless, we should have the 6:00 game in any of the locations as the host team gets to select their preferred time to play.

If I were a betting man, here’s where I put my money on ORU’s destination:

• WIN - Fayetteville 
• PLACE - Norman
• SHOW - College Station
• LONG SHOT - Stillwater

[TrueBlue82]

9 hours ago, Old Titan said:

If I were a betting man, here’s where I put my money on ORU’s destination:

• WIN - Fayetteville 
• PLACE - Norman
• SHOW - College Station
• LONG SHOT - Stillwater

I would flip the Place and Show (simply because A&M has a higher ranking) but agree that Fayetteville makes a LOT of sense.  Now, watch us get sent to Santa Barbara.  

[Bogus Smith]

16 minutes ago, TrueBlue82 said:

I would flip the Place and Show (simply because A&M has a higher ranking) but agree that Fayetteville makes a LOT of sense.  Now, watch us get sent to Santa Barbara.  

The only reason that we get sent to a non top-8 site is out of respect of our performance last season.  The selection committee has never been one for respecting a mid- or low-major program, but not every mid-major program has gone through a season like ours and earned its way into a NCAA regional like we have this year.  Those on the selection committee (and their friends) in the top eight may not want to deal with a hot ORU team and hope that ORU could knock off a #1 seed in one of the lower eight to give the higher seeded #1 seed a clearer path to Omaha.

[ORob2]

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2024-ncaa-baseball-tournament-bracket-final-projected-field-of-64/
 

Baseball America sends us back to Stillwater along with Nebraska and Georgia Tech.  Almost time

[Old Titan]

Part of my insistence that it's Fayettevile rests in the fact that Kendall Rogers, long-time college baseball guru and bracketologist, has consistently slotted ORU in the Arkansas Regional. 

Here are his picks for the local sites:

FAYETTEVILLE

1. Arkansas
2. Louisiana Tech
3. Kansas State
4. Oral Roberts

STILLWATER

1. Oklahoma State
2. Dallas Baptist
3. Alabama
4. Tulane

NORMAN

1. Oklahoma
2. Vanderbilt
3. Connecticut
4. SE Missouri State

COLLEGE STATION, TX

1. Texas A&M
2. Texas
3. Nicholls State
4. Grambling

[theeagleman5]

TheEagleman thinks we need a rubber match vs. OU in Norman next weekend....would be fun to watch! 

[theeagleman5]

BOOM!!!!

 

[ORUTerry]

 

[Otis 83]

I’ll be darned. Like OT, I was sure we were headed to Fayetteville.  

[ORUTerry]

Respect from the selection committee