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Ok. This is what I was trying to figure out. So if the NCAA committee ignores non D1 games for SOS and RPI, why would they still count them in the W-L columns?
Doesn't really matter though as we are in and its awesome.
Lets go down to Louisville and make some noise. It is great to see the Valley and a Northern baseball school be recognized. I still think we are fortunate to get a bid. 4 D3 wins, being outscored by your D1 opponents over the season, and a sub .500 conference record are not selling points. At large selections just don't have that on their resumes. Lets take advantage of this rare opportunity. We can beat Michigan.
Doesn't really matter though as we are in and its awesome.
Lets go down to Louisville and make some noise. It is great to see the Valley and a Northern baseball school be recognized. I still think we are fortunate to get a bid. 4 D3 wins, being outscored by your D1 opponents over the season, and a sub .500 conference record are not selling points. At large selections just don't have that on their resumes. Lets take advantage of this rare opportunity. We can beat Michigan.The "being outscored" line is pretty much just thanks to that 30 run Grand Canyon game, and putting a lot of stock in a runaway when teams emptied their bullpens like that is silly. It's not like Ashbeck got 30 scored on him. This team's last two games were a 3-1 win over the #2 RPI team and a loss to the #8 national seed in which the game was tied in the 7th inning. I don't know what to expect but I think they're equipped to compete here. It's fair to suggest teams with losing conference records shouldn't get at larges but the NCAA abandoned that unwritten rule years ago in basketball and technically they had a winning conference record if you count the tournament. If Bradley didn't get picked they would have been the highest RPI snub in history by like 6 spots, so it wasn't very surprising.
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