Gamecock Baseball drops out of the rankings

[Cocky 45]

But Kingston still says we are a top 16 team, so there's that

 

[sgacock]

Rankings are meaningless

NCAA Baseball RPI

1	1	Arkansas	SEC	42-10	13-5	3-0	26-5	0-0
2	2	Fairfield	MAAC	35-1	10-0	0-0	25-1	0-0
3	3	Texas	Big 12	40-13	13-5	0-3	27-5	0-0
4	4	Vanderbilt	SEC	39-13	12-7	0-0	27-6	0-0
5	5	Mississippi St.	SEC	40-13	12-4	3-1	25-8	0-0
6	6	Arizona	Pac-12	38-14	9-8	4-0	25-6	0-0
7	7	TCU	Big 12	36-16	14-6	3-3	19-7	0-0
8	8	Texas Tech	Big 12	35-13	7-5	4-3	24-5	0-0
9	9	Tennessee	SEC	42-14	16-5	0-0	26-9	0-0
10	10	Notre Dame	ACC	29-10	15-4	0-0	14-6	0-0
11	11	East Carolina	AAC	38-13	11-9	0-0	27-4	0-0
12	12	Old Dominion	C-USA	38-14	16-6	0-0	22-8	0-0
13	17	Stanford	Pac-12	31-13	12-9	0-0	19-4	0-0
14	13	South Carolina	SEC	33-20	10-11	1-1	22-8	0-0
15	15	Ole Miss	SEC	38-17	8-8	3-0	27-9	0-0
16	16	Oklahoma St.	Big 12	32-16	8-7	1-1	23-8	0-0
17	14	Oregon	Pac-12	35-13	14-6	0-0	21-7	0-0
18	19	Charlotte	C-USA	39-17	12-11	0-0	27-6	0-0
19	20	Miami (FL)	ACC	32-17	14-10	0-0	18-7	0-0
20	22	Florida	SEC	35-19	7-12	0-0	28-7	0-0
21	23	LSU	SEC	34-21	10-7	0-0	24-14	0-0
22	24	UConn	Big East	30-16	13-14	1-1	16-1	0-0
23	21	Oregon St.	Pac-12	33-20	13-10	3-1	17-9	0-0
24	18	Gonzaga	WCC	32-15	16-10	2-2	14-3	0-0
25	25	Southern Miss.	C-USA	35-17	13-8	0-1	22-8	0-0
26	27	Liberty	ASUN	37-12	13-10	0-0	24-2	0-0
27	26	Nevada	Mountain West	21-18	12-14	0-0	9-4	0-0
28	29	Duke	ACC	28-20	11-13	0-0	17-7	0-0
29	30	Louisiana Tech	C-USA	36-16	16-6	1-0	19-10	0-0
30	28	Wright St.	Horizon	29-11	13-8	1-2	15-1	3-0
31	32	Arizona St.	Pac-12	32-17	10-9	0-0	22-8	0-0
32	31	NC State	ACC	28-15	15-3	0-0	13-12	0-0

 

[sgacock]

A couple of more wins would be nice though.

SEC Baseball Tournament schedule​

Note: All times central.

First Round (Single elimination)​

Tues., May 25
Game 1: No. 6 Florida vs. No. 11 Kentucky | 9:30 a.m. | SEC Network
Game 2: No. 7 South Carolina vs. No. 10 Alabama | 1 p.m. | SEC Network
Game 3: No. 8 Georgia vs. No. 9 LSU | 4:30 p.m. | SEC Network
Game 4: No. 5 Ole Miss vs. No. 12 Auburn| 8 p.m. | SEC Network

Second Round (Double elimination)​

Wed., May 26
Game 5: No. 3 Mississippi State vs. Game 1 winner | 9:30 a.m. | SEC Network
Game 6: No. 2 Tennessee vs. Game 2 winner | 1 p.m. | SEC Network
Game 7: No. 1 Arkansas vs. Game 3 winner | 4:30 p.m. | SEC Network
Game 8: No. 4 Vanderbilt vs. Game 4 winner | 8 p.m. | SEC Network

Third Round (Double elimination)​

Thurs., May 27
Game 9: Game 5 loser vs. Game 6 loser | 9:30 a.m. | SEC Network
Game 10: Game 7 loser vs. Game 8 loser | 1 p.m. | SEC Network
Game 11: Game 5 winner vs. Game 6 winner | 4:30 p.m. | SEC Network
Game 12: Game 7 winner vs. Game 8 winner | 8 p.m. | SEC Network

Fourth Round (Double elimination)​

Fri., May 28
Game 13: Game 9 winner vs. Game 11 loser | 3 p.m. | SEC Network
Game 14: Game 10 winner vs. Game 12 loser | 6:30 p.m. | SEC Network

Semifinals (Single elimination)​

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Sat., May 29
Game 15: Game 11 winner vs. Game 13 winner | Noon | SEC Network
Game 16: Game 12 winner vs. Game 14 winner | 3:30 p.m. | SEC Network

 

[king ward]

We're marginal/middling at best. Maybe we could help ourselves this weekend.

 

[USCBatgirl21]

We could still host, and be a 2 seed at home.
Been done before.
We're ordering our tickets today. Back to Sec 4 Row 1 for us!

Rankings aren't meaningless per se. But RPI does hold more weight, and believe it or not, the selection committee will take into serious consideration that no one has played the schedule we did this year.

I'll watch baseball regardless. Not a lot of work will be getting done tomorrow at the office.

 

[gcock5]

I've never understood the rankings. UT was supposed to take 2/3 from us based on their ranking. They did, with the tying run of the rubber game on second base to end the game. So we play them close, yet we still drop in the ranking. Makes no since.

 

[USCBatgirl21]

So far we've dropped from one ranking. D1 Baseball.
We're 25 in Baseball America.
23 in some random 11.7 ranking sheet (never heard of it before this year).
The rest of them haven't come out yet.

 

[bucketdad]

Evidently they decided to go ahead and slip Nebraska and Maryland in so the Big 10 would have someone ranked since they will play no conference tournament. We just got bumped by teams that played no ooc schedule and will play no conference tournament. Meanwhile, Nebraska winning the regular season gets a week to rest knowing that have an automatic bid.

 

[mavcock]

Man, the ACC sucks.

 

[Gamecockben1979]

Reality is we’re not a top 16 team. We might back door host as a two seed but I doubt it. We might get a favorable draw and advance to the super regionals but that’s the ceiling for this team. For the most part it wins 1 out of 3 against the best competition. It is what it is.

 

[USCBatgirl21]

Went from 15 to 16 in Collegiate Baseball. (Yes it's been the most generous poll all season.)

Collegiate Baseball Div 1 Poll (5-24-21) - Collegiate Baseball Newspaper

baseballnews.com

From 18 to 24 in the Coaches' Poll.
https://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaa-baseball/polls/coaches-poll/

Again...only unranked in ONE poll. We should surely hang up the spikes for the rest of the year. Why even bother at this point. 🙄

 

[jeff2001]

But Kingston still says we are a top 16 team, so there's that

What ?

 

[jeff2001]

Bump . Which poll did we fall out of ? OP

 

[bucketdad]

Bump . Which poll did we fall out of ? OP

Not the OP but D1 baseball poll. I've always considered that one the best. Arguable I guess tho.

 

[king ward]

We could still host, and be a 2 seed at home.
Been done before.
We're ordering our tickets today. Back to Sec 4 Row 1 for us!

Rankings aren't meaningless per se. But RPI does hold more weight, and believe it or not, the selection committee will take into serious consideration that no one has played the schedule we did this year.

I'll watch baseball regardless. Not a lot of work will be getting done tomorrow at the office.

Your baseball fanhood is never in question.