Oregon State wins its first baseball championship (also the first for coach Pat Casey), behind Kevin Gunderson's NCAA record 20th save. Oregon State is the the first northern, not to mention northwestern, team to win the CWS in a long time. Their #4 ranking in the pre-tournament ISR is clearly more indicative of their quality and their #30 ranking in Boyd's estimate of the NCAA's RPI.
The seedings and standings are structured to reflect the fact that we have, in effect, a structure identical to a pair of regionals feeding into a best-2-of-3 super regional for the championship.
seed team CWS record CB BA ISR' ISR RPI ---- --------------- ----- ------ -- -- ---- --- --- 4 * N. Carolina (3-0) 50-13 5 5 119 117 11 N5. CSU,Fullerton (2-2) 48-13 2 2 127 127 3 N1. Clemson (1-2) 52-14 3 3 124 122 1 N8. Georgia Tech (0-2) 50-16 8 7 120 118 4 ---- --------------- ----- ------ -- -- ---- --- --- 3 * Oregon St (4-1) 44-14 4 4 122 121 30 N2. Rice (2-2) 55-11 1 1 124 124 2 6. Miami (FL) (1-2) 41-22 11 8 116 114 13 N7. Georgia (0-2) 47-21 7 6 119 119 8 ---- --------------- ----- ------ -- -- ---- --- ---
Record and poll rankings are from after the Super Regionals, before CWS.
The ranking
produced by Boyd Nation after the regionals is under ISR',
while that before regional play is listed under ISR.
The RPI is also from before regional play started.
First (1-4-5-8) bracket:
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1. Clemson 8
8. Ga.Tech 4
Clemson 0 N. Carol. 6
N.Carol. 2 Fullerton 5
4. N. Carol. 7 (13) Clemson 6
5. Fullerton 5 Fullerton 7
Ga. Tech 5
Fullerton 7
Second (2-3-6-7) bracket:
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2. Rice 6
7. Georgia 4
Rice 3 Rice 0 0
Miami 2 Oregon St 5 2
3. Oregon St 1 Miami 1
6. Miami(FL) 11 Oregon St 8
Georgia 3
Oregon St 5
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Oregon State comes back from an initial loss to win its first baseball championship.