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@The_CUSA_Report @JaxStateBB @JSUGamecocks @LibertyBaseball @LibertyFlames @MoStateBSB @MissouriStBears It’s probably about even chances between all 3. BC falls right in the pack of ACC teams LU has been playing all year. UVA is a better team than some give them credit for right now, and Mo St has played AR twice already and split so it’s anyone’s guess.

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@Cragmaw3 @The_CUSA_Report LU was probably the most disrespected, 3 seed but still got sent to a Top 5 regional host …

@JessPreusser @The_CUSA_Report I think even if it may present a more winnable path, it’s still justifiable to be frusturated with the committees lack of respect for our conference

Jacksonville State is headed to the national 9-seed regional as a 3-seed against Virginia, who finished 8th in the ACC and with a losing record in-conference.

@Cragmaw3 @The_CUSA_Report I guess … but being a 2 or a 3 makes little difference, you play the same team in regionals regardless. I find location to be more important then seed, and being a 3 seed gave all CUSA teams more favorable locations then they would have had as 2.

@John_6__47 Say it LOUDER for the people that think football and basketball are the only sports that exist … sad part, they aren’t even LU’s best programs, never have been. But, I give HUGE shoutout to AD’s who make sure EVERY team gets a piece of the revenue share at LU, not just football

Hope we can make this a regular occurrence. Gotta put the required money in. Look at Coastal and Southern Miss. Mid Majors can succeed in baseball if we put the work and money in.

@thecajundude They couldn’t put them as last 4 in because then it would raise even MORE questions about why they were in at all. I promise you they swapped them out with Liberty to cut down on the backlash because they figured no one would care …

I will say the fact that NC State wasn’t even in the last four in is crazy.. and UTSA wasn’t even in the first four out 😬

@JohnnyFort6538 @TheTowelRackWKU Um … did we watch the same team this year? I get thinking they should be a 2, but a top 16? With their - checks notes, 2 - P4 wins? I am all about pulling for your team, but stop beign delusional.

@TheTowelRackWKU Jax State had a resume worthy of a top sixteen seed.46 wins,regular season and tournament champs of one of the best conferences in college baseball,and beat overall four seed Auburn twice .My money is on them in Hattiesburg.

Absolute travesty. This team DOMINATED CUSA, a conference that could have easily had 4 teams in the tournament. They did the work. Don’t punish a 2 seed by putting them in, and they put them against UVA, who is one of the better 2 seeds. Absolute screw job.

@ScottiFromJax Why all the whining about being a 2 seed? You realize as a 2 seed they would have been sending you to play UCLA or GT right? Instead they gave you a 3 seed in the “mid-major” regional …

A 3 seed is criminal…this is a 2 seed team at worst.

@thatVulcan17 @ScottiFromJax You’re joking right? A regional host?

@ScottiFromJax I haven’t released my latest top 25 yet even though I did it last night but I had them at number 13 which would’ve put them as regional host.

@BleedTechBlue Yeah … they are bouncing out of CUSA to head to the Sunbelt … I don’t think the cha ches are getting better …

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@WallaceCreed24 @writingump Yeah, instead they were like, hey, let’s throw Liberty on there … even though they beat a bunch of these teams WV, NCST, VT, Jax St, MO St … and played close games with UVA, MF, etc … because we hate them and they won’t kick up a fuss.

@writingump I lowk disagree. I think the decision was between Mercer and nc state. This explains how ncst was miraculously off the last four in, because there is legitimately no way to rationalize them over Mercer. Both have the same flaw of awful ncsos, so can’t put them on last four in

He meant to say that there was a quota for mid-major bids and Greg Sankey would have been upset if Mercer made it over Kentucky. There, fixed it.

@MattSortino If those teams were auto qualifiers from the smaller conferences it does not compare.

Pitt had a better RPI than 26 teams in the field.

@notkarlhess Jax state is good - but beatable. Liberty took 2/3 in the regular season, split 2-2 including the conference tournament.

On paper, the Hoos have a tough opener on Friday night.

@BeLoudWearRed They won’t apply that metric to the P4’s. I swear they are measured by a whole separate set of rules. Evidently in Kentucky all you have to do is be breathing to get in.

If SOS becomes one of the chief metrics—even though the others bake it in—it will spell the doom of most mid-major at-large bids. Ever wonder why so many P4s have such low NC SOS? It’s because they are scheduling mid-majors in the early season and midweeks. Why do some mid-majors have such high NC SOS? Because they are good enough to get P4s to schedule them. Liberty normally has a top-75 RPI which allows Duke, VT, UVA, WF, and other P4s to feel comfortable scheduling games. A loss isn’t great, but it doesn’t kill their RPI. On the other hand, take FIU for example. Bless their hearts, but they are rarely going to see the top 100 in RPI. They are uneasy traveling distance of some really good P4 teams. Miami scheduled 3 with them this year and canceled the 3rd. Obviously not because of FIU’s ~200 RPI, but because someone had a tummy ache or the tires on the bus needed to be rotated or their players really, really, really needed to study for their finals (or at least sit there while some nerd took their test for them). *gasp* did I say that out loud?? Anyway, if SOS becomes the determining factor, why would Miami or FSU or UF or GT or Georgia or SC or Clemson or Alabama or Auburn or the beach chickens schedule midweeks with them? FIU could catch lightning in a bottle—like Mercer—and couldn’t schedule a P4 because the P4s have to protect their SOS. And just like that, the committee may have changed future scheduling for everyone.

@BrysonGordon Because they hate us … but they couldn’t find a valid reason to leave us out .. not if they were putting in mediocre at best NC State and VT, both of whole Liberty beat this year, and when they just beat Mo St yesterday morning.

Kind of surprising to see that the NCAA Tournament selection chair said that Liberty was among the last four teams in the field of 64. Most projections had the Flames near or actually on the 2-seed line.

@based_serotonin @fcsoverfbs @SoConSports Their out of conference strength of schedule was 218 … I don’t make up the numbers. They played 5 P4 games. Won 1 and got curb stomped in several others. Troy’s SOS was 2.

@JessPreusser @fcsoverfbs @SoConSports Mercer played a series against Oregon state, beat GT, played at FSU, and opened the season with a series win against Troy, who was last 4 in.

These selections show the complete disrespect for @SoConSports. Selection committee, as expected, showed its biases again and left out Mercer for the likes of some mediocre ball clubs. Someone’s gotta speak up for SoCon at some point. Absolute joke.

@The_CUSA_Report I don’t want to go play UCLA, so I willl give them the 2 seed. I would have been 😡 - if they left LU out while putting in 2 teams we BEAT decisively in the regular season.

A great question! Missouri State was RPI 23 while Jax State was CUSA champion, yet all three were relegated to regional 3-seeds.

@crazydetfan93 @LibertyBaseball Bulletin board material …

@LibertyBaseball Being last 4 in is insulting.

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@ChrisWSTL @RealPhierce You realize they did y’all a favor right? They are sending you to Hattiesburg … could have made you a 2 and sent you to play GT or UCLA. Stop whining and go play. Arguably gave you the easiest draw of any CUSA team.

@RealPhierce Acting like you think we should’ve been the same seed is crazy. We should’ve been a 2