Bracketology 2024

[theeagleman5]

TCU out....Lamar out...Charleston out....too many SEC teams...if you cant go .500 in your league and dont win the post season tournament the sorry you are out....Florida, So. Carolina and LSU.....

[Old Titan]

Surprises:

• No. 9 Oklahoma not in line to host a Super Regional should they advance
• Dallas Baptist sent to Tucson
• Oregon gets to stay on the west coast at Santa Barbara
• 2023 CWS participant and ORU postseason nemesis TCU left out
• Two Eastern Time Zone teams sent to Norman (UCONN and Duke - maybe the committee thought it was basketball?)

Stone Cold Locks:

• ESPN  "The Committee" would put Texas and Texas A&M together if it was women's lacrosse, much less baseball.

[Old Titan]

...and how come ORU keeps getting lined up with Duke in NCAA postseason play?

Hasn't this university done enough already battling devils??   

[ORUTex]

Apparently OU has chosen to play the afternoon game. 1pm Friday. 
https://www.ncaa.com/championships/baseball/d1/broadcast-info

[Otis 83]

8 minutes ago, Old Titan said:

Wow, I am SHOCKED - that could really affect the crowd if the temps are in the 90's.  Bad enough it's a work day for fans in the OKC area, even if were the evening game.  No way the crowd will be as juiced for the Sooners as they would in the nightcap.

FWIW, ORU just came off tree straight games in higher temps this week in Tulsa, while OU played in air-conditioned comfort at Globe Life Stadium in Arlington for the Big XII tournament.

Not to sound fatalistic, but that schedule also gives the loser of the 1-vs-4 contest a leg-up for the elimination game at 1pm Saturday:  the loser of the 2-vs-3 game Friday evening will only have somewhere around 12 hours in between contests, even less if there are weather delays.

I wonder if that went into their thinking.  More likely they like the idea of having Friday night off and most of Saturday before playing Saturday night.  I don't know.  It will be interesting to see what the other hosts do.  We played OSU on Friday night last year, didn't we?

[EagleManiac]

Looks like they changed it. Now the ORU v OU game is showing as the evening game. 

[MrsSmith]

2 minutes ago, Otis 83 said:

I wonder if that went into their thinking.  More likely they like the idea of having Friday night off and most of Saturday before playing Saturday night.  I don't know.  It will be interesting to see what the other hosts do.  We played OSU on Friday night last year, didn't we?

We did play at night last year.  We had a rain delay in that game too.  Are you coming up, Otis?

[Otis 83]

3 minutes ago, MrsSmith said:

We did play at night last year.  We had a rain delay in that game too.  Are you coming up, Otis?

Now that it's a night game I'm thinking about it.  Gotta see what's going on at the home front.  May also just try to pop up Saturday for game 2.

I'm counting the offering at church on Sunday so I have to be home Sunday morning.

[Bogus Smith]

The times are now set for the Norman regional.

Nine-Seed Sooners Host Duke, UConn and ORU for Norman Regional

Friday:

UConn v. Duke - noon

ORU v. OU - 6:00 p.m.

Saturday:

Loser's Bracket game - 2:00 p.m.

Winner's Bracket game - 8:00 p.m.

Sunday:

Loser's Bracket game - 2:00 p.m.

Championship game - 8:00 p.m.

Monday:

If necessary game - TBD

 

 

2 hours ago, Otis 83 said:

I'm counting the offering at church on Sunday so I have to be home Sunday morning.

@Otis 83, surely you can find someone to sub-in for you to count the money on Sunday.  You wouldn't want to miss us win another regional championship, would you??? 

[Otis 83]

24 minutes ago, Bogus Smith said:

The times are now set for the Norman regional.

Nine-Seed Sooners Host Duke, UConn and ORU for Norman Regional

Friday:

UConn v. Duke - noon

ORU v. OU - 6:00 p.m.

Saturday:

Loser's Bracket game - 2:00 p.m.

Winner's Bracket game - 8:00 p.m.

Sunday:

Loser's Bracket game - 2:00 p.m.

Championship game - 8:00 p.m.

Monday:

If necessary game - TBD

 

 

@Otis 83, surely you can find someone to sub-in for you to count the money on Sunday.  You wouldn't want to miss us win another regional championship, would you??? 

Well my typical partner is an OU grad so he may be looking for a sub too. First negotiation is with Mrs Otis. 

[OKC Eagle]

And we get no better than the number 8 team in the super regional. 

[ORU82]

Otis, are you trying to tell us you have become one of the "Temple money changers"?  jk

[Otis 83]

Got the green light.  I put in a request for tickets.  Anyone stayed in Norman and has an affordable inn that you would recommend?

[Old Titan]

We need to move these conversations to the “Norman Regional” thread.

“Bracketology” is done!

[TrueBlue82]

ORU wasn't the only 2023 College World Series participant to struggle in 2024.  Ironically, the two teams to finish 2 and BBQ in Omaha (Virginia and Tennessee) were the only teams of last year's final eight to earn National Seeds in 2024 (Tennessee at 1 and Virginia at 12).  Defending National Champs LSU and Wake Forest earned 2 seeds, while National Runner-up Florida earned one of the highly controversial "last four in" #3 seeds despite finishing the season 28-27 (and probably should have been excluded, IMHO). And, finally, TCU and Stanford both missed the tournament altogether (can you imagine the frustration of those fan bases?).

Interestingly, the eight 2023 Super Regional losers ALL returned to the tournament in 2024, with Kentucky earning a national seed (#2).

You have to wonder if participation in the CWS might actually be a short-term negative to the teams, in that the players get additional exposure which raises their draft stock (decimating a team's roster) and the coaches fall behind competitors on valuable recruiting and transfer portal opportunities???  I still believe that CWS participation is a huge long-term positive, and that ORU will see some of those benefits in future years, but I was very surprised to see how most of the 2023 CWS teams took a big step back in the following year.