College Baseball Daily continues our countdown to the start of the 2016 NCAA Tournament with our weekly Regional Projections. These are done as if the teams finished the season on Saturday. As has been the case this year, there is a major disparity towards the south schools due to the weak west coast baseball this season. I do expect the NCAA to force a regional in the Western part of the country due to TV restrictions. You can check out the full brackets below.
| 1. Florida (1) * 2. Georgia Tech 3. Creighton 4. Bethune-Cookman * | 1. Virginia 2. Bryant * 3. Ohio State 4. Binghamton * |
| 1. South Carolina (8) 2. North Carolina 3. Nebraska 4. Oral Roberts * | 1. NC State 2. UNC-Wilmington * 3. East Carolina 4. Navy * |
| 1. Texas A&M (4) 2. TCU * 3. Boston College 4. Utah * | 1. Texas Tech 2. Dallas Baptist * 3. Sam Houston State * 4. Iowa * |
| 1. Ole Miss (5) 2. UC Santa Barbara 3. New Mexico * 4. Fairfield * | 1. Florida State * 2. Arizona 3. Oklahoma State 4. Stetson * |
| 1. Clemson (6) 2. Rice 3. Arizona State 4. Princeton * | 1. Coastal Carolina * 2. Wake Forest 3. Cal State Fullerton * 4. Southeast Missouri * |
| 1. Miami (FL) (3) 2. Florida Atlantic 3. South Alabama 4. Mercer * | 1. Mississippi State 2. Southern Miss * 3. Michigan 4. Alabama State * |
| 1. LSU (7) 2. Tulane 3. SE Louisiana 4. UConn * | 1. Louisiana-Lafayette * 2. Gonzaga 3. Xavier * 4. Rhode Island * |
| 1. Louisville (2) 2. Louisiana Tech 3. St. Mary’s 4. Kent State * | 1. Vanderbilt 2. Duke 3. Wright State * 4. Utah Valley |
| Conference | Projected Champ |
| America East | Binghamton |
| American Athletic Conference | UConn |
| Atlantic 10 | Rhode Island |
| ACC | Florida State |
| Atlantic Sun | Stetson |
| Big 10 | Iowa |
| Big 12 | TCU |
| Big East | Xavier |
| Big South | Coastal Carolina |
| Big West | Cal State Fullerton |
| CAA | UNC-Wilmington |
| Conference USA | Southern Miss |
| Horizon League | Wright State |
| Ivy League | Princeton |
| MAAC | Fairfield |
| MAC | Kent State |
| MEAC | Bethune-Cookman |
| Missouri Valley | Dallas Baptist |
| Mountain West | New Mexico |
| Northeast Conference | Bryant |
| Ohio Valley Conference | Southeast Missouri |
| Pac-12 | Utah |
| Patriot League | Navy |
| SEC | Florida |
| Southern Conference | Mercer |
| Southland Conference | Sam Houston State |
| SWAC | Alabama State |
| Summit League | Oral Roberts |
| Sun Belt | Louisiana-Lafayette |
| West Coast Conference | St. Mary’s |
| WAC | Utah Valley University |
24 comments
Big West finished 1. Fullerton 2. Long Beach 3. Santa Barbara.
Your field has Fullerton as a 3 seed. Long Beach not in the field. Santa Barbara as a 2.
What am I missing?
RPI. And yes, everyone (except maybe the selection committee) knows it is biased against west coast teams.
Per Boyd Nation’s RPI web page as of today: UCSB 24, Fullerton 44, Long Beach 51. Rarely does a 50+ RPI get an at-large berth.
Maybe this is the year the committee ignores RPI… Massey, Sagarin, and ISR all have Long Beach in the 30s. But I’m going to guess the people building the bracket don’t have any faith the committee will.
Santa Barbara finished in a death spiral. LB finished pretty strong. The committee should ignore RPI in this case. The Big West might get only two teams in this year. It wouldn’t shock me.
Whoever wrote this is a dumb ass. I mean, they left out the SEC Champions Mississippi St all together.
You talking about the team that went 1-2 in Hoover with the win over Alabama? Pretty sure Texas A&M won the SEC postseason tournament this year….
Brian Foley
Editor of College Baseball Daily
Twitter: @BFoley82|@CB_Daily
SEC regular season champion. Try to keep up Jr.
So you’re gonna leave them completely out bc they didn’t win the SEC Tournament? LOL
Pretty sure they are listed as a regional host against Miami in the Super Regionals.
I must’ve overlooked that than but they will be a National seed
We will see
Brian Foley
Editor of College Baseball Daily
Twitter: @BFoley82|@CB_Daily
Yes we will in about an hour and a half from now
And in case you haven’t noticed, I’m not a Mississippi St fan.
But you still show Florida winning the SEC. the conference tournament is the automatic bid. Mississippi state won the regular season title and is the SEC Champion, not Texas A&M.
Yea…Florida and A&M were playing today in the conference tourney. Florida has been the better team all year so I projected them as conference champs.
Brian Foley
Editor of College Baseball Daily
Twitter: @BFoley82|@CB_Daily
confernce champ is regular season, not tournament. also, in case you forgot MississippI State beat Florida twice in Gainesville. and yes I know they lost in the tournament. ando A&M won the tourney 12-5. also you are giving the 7th place team a national seed over 5th and first place regular season teams. Also MSU beats Ole Miss 3 out of 4 this season.
I know I’m late but I TOLD YOU SO. ???
Surely A&M is now the National number 1 seed, right? How can they not be?
Duke finished up 12-3 last 15 games..Series wins over Clemson,GTech&Florida St…Also beat Cal(when top 15 )Big Ten Champ Ohio St..First time in 55yrs…Are they in?
Absolutely, I think Duke resume is miles better than Boston College especially OOC.
It is better…North Carolina is 8-7 last 15 games..They beat Duke(highest r.p.i)Pitt,Notre Dame&Virginia Tech..B.C I believe may come up short…Carolina should not get in…No conference Tourney,Barely 500 last 15…Thnx……….
Excuse me, but…umm…IOWA?!?!?!
We had Iowa winning the big ten title today which of course they didn’t do
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Miss St will be top 8 seed as they won the SEC. Ole Miss 5? they wont even be top 8 nor will USC. Tx Tch will likely get it. You guys are pretty terrible at this.
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