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Missouri State came within a play or two of winning the Missouri Valley Baseball tournament, but lost (12-10) to Wichita State (44-15).
Missouri State also finished second to WSU in the MVC regular season race, with an outstanding record of 40-17.
Only 27 teams won 40 or more games this baseball season yet only two didn't get NCAA bids, one of them,
with some irony attached, is Missouri State.
Even Dallas Baptist (a non-D-I) got an NCAA bid, and several sub-.500 teams got in
(Eastern Mich 25-32, Texas Southern 16-32, EIU 27-28, Columbia 22-28, Mt. St. Mary's 21-32)
here's one thing that should really enrage MVC fans.......
NINE DIFFERENT SEC teams got in....one automatic qualifier (LSU), plus EIGHT at-large bids
(Alabama, Arkansas (14-15), Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Ole Miss, South Carolina (15-15), Vanderbilt)!!!
ONLY three SEC teams are staying home!
Of the 9 SEC teams plus the 6 ACC and 6 Big 12 teams got in, the NCAA included Alabama with 26 losses,
Mississippi & Oklahoma with 24 losses, Arkansas & Florida with 22 losses, South Carolina, Virginia, & Georgia with 21 losses,
Texas & Vandy with 20 losses, Missouri with 19 losses.
Also UCLA and Western Ky both got iat-large bids with 25 losses.
Here is the biggest surprise of all.........
Oklahoma, who finished 34-24-1, played a soft non-conference schedule, and was 9-17-1 in their own conference (Big 12),
and yet they got an at-large bid.
The folks from Baylor (32-26 and two places ahead of Oklahoma in the Big 12 standings) are angry that Oklahoma got in
ahead of them as they have made it to the College World Series all but twice in the past couple decades.
The two time defending College World Series Champs, Oregon State, at 28-24, are also a little ticked that they are
staying home when teams like Oklahoma got a bid.
As always, it's probably all in who you know.... as the 64 bids included 30 automatic qualifiers from 30 different conferences.
But of the 34 at-large bids...here's the breakdown...
Southeastern -8
Atlantic Coast -5
Big 12 -5
Pacific-10 -4
Conference USA -4
Big West -3
Big East -1
Colonial -1
Sun Belt -1
West Coast -1
Independent (non-D-I, Dallas Baptist) -1
The remaining 21 different mid-major conferences (including MVC) got exactly ZERO at-large bids!!
Missouri State also finished second to WSU in the MVC regular season race, with an outstanding record of 40-17.
Only 27 teams won 40 or more games this baseball season yet only two didn't get NCAA bids, one of them,
with some irony attached, is Missouri State.
Even Dallas Baptist (a non-D-I) got an NCAA bid, and several sub-.500 teams got in
(Eastern Mich 25-32, Texas Southern 16-32, EIU 27-28, Columbia 22-28, Mt. St. Mary's 21-32)
here's one thing that should really enrage MVC fans.......
NINE DIFFERENT SEC teams got in....one automatic qualifier (LSU), plus EIGHT at-large bids
(Alabama, Arkansas (14-15), Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Ole Miss, South Carolina (15-15), Vanderbilt)!!!
ONLY three SEC teams are staying home!
Of the 9 SEC teams plus the 6 ACC and 6 Big 12 teams got in, the NCAA included Alabama with 26 losses,
Mississippi & Oklahoma with 24 losses, Arkansas & Florida with 22 losses, South Carolina, Virginia, & Georgia with 21 losses,
Texas & Vandy with 20 losses, Missouri with 19 losses.
Also UCLA and Western Ky both got iat-large bids with 25 losses.
Here is the biggest surprise of all.........
Oklahoma, who finished 34-24-1, played a soft non-conference schedule, and was 9-17-1 in their own conference (Big 12),
and yet they got an at-large bid.
The folks from Baylor (32-26 and two places ahead of Oklahoma in the Big 12 standings) are angry that Oklahoma got in
ahead of them as they have made it to the College World Series all but twice in the past couple decades.
The two time defending College World Series Champs, Oregon State, at 28-24, are also a little ticked that they are
staying home when teams like Oklahoma got a bid.
As always, it's probably all in who you know.... as the 64 bids included 30 automatic qualifiers from 30 different conferences.
But of the 34 at-large bids...here's the breakdown...
Southeastern -8
Atlantic Coast -5
Big 12 -5
Pacific-10 -4
Conference USA -4
Big West -3
Big East -1
Colonial -1
Sun Belt -1
West Coast -1
Independent (non-D-I, Dallas Baptist) -1
The remaining 21 different mid-major conferences (including MVC) got exactly ZERO at-large bids!!
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