Look, the selection committee made it clear last year that they wanted to use UConn to "grow the game" out of the Southern states after giving them a host site with a #2 seed, just like Goodell is obsessed with "growing" the NFL outside the U.S. markets. I wonder if there's still some of that mentality going around in college baseball circles. Knowing the PC tendencies of most people in sports media, it wouldn't surprise me one bit.
Indiana 3 UConn1 Top 9. I can see why they were ranked so highly. LSU has never had a start like that.
#1 UCLA dropped 2 games to San Jose State and Bama got swept by Central Florida. Vandy took 2 of 3 from #12 Stanford and #5 TCU lost 2 out of 3 to Fullerton. Tigers are 7-0, 6 of them routs so I look for them to move up a spot in BBA.
Given the loses by teams ranked ahead of us I guess we jump 3 spots. We may have chip away at the rankings, but as we keep winning we will get to where we belong. So far our boys are playing much better than the experts anticipated, but until we play some solid competition they're not going to be willing to jump on our bandwagon. That said, with the dominance we've displayed so far, it's apparent this team has the potential to be really good. We'll see just how good when we go against more top flight pitching and hitting.
