Oregon State sweeps North Carolina in the finals.
An astounding repeat for the 6th place team in the Pac-10.
OSU was unranked by Baseball American and 29th by Collegiate Baseball
at the start of the tournament, slipping in as a 3rd seed at 34 in the RPI.
Updated Dec 2010:
Records and results now reflect the wins vacated by Arizona State
(44 wins involving an athlete who was illegally recruited by former coach
Pat Murphy) as a result of NCAA sanctions. I have corrected the records
and inserted a "v" where a winning score would appear. Normally a team
will just leave a blank where the W would be, but my notational scheme
does not allow for that distinction.
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 ---- --------------- ----- ------ -- -- ---- --- N3 * N. Carolina (4-1) 53-13 2 2 120 120 N2. Rice (2-2) 54-12 1 1 125 124 7. Louisville (1-2) 46-22 8 22 111 109 ! record 6. Miss. State (0-2) 38-20 6 19 116 114 ---- --------------- ----- ------ -- -- ---- --- 1 * Oregon St. (3-0) 44-18 5 16 120 118 4. U.C. Irvine (2-2) 45-15-1 4 4 122 120 N5. Arizona St. (0-2) 5-13 3 3 124 122 8. CSU,Fullerton (0-2) 38-23 7 25 118 116 ---- --------------- ----- ------ -- -- ---- ---
Record and poll rankings are from after the Super Regionals, before CWS.
Note, however, that Baseball America did not produce a poll after June 5,
which was before the Super Regionals.
The ranking
produced by Boyd Nation before regional play is
listed under ISR, while that after the regionals is under ISR'.
Important note: The ISR for Louisville is the lowest in the 10 years
that Boyd has been generating his rankings. (The first year the ISR appears
in my records is 1998, the last year of the 48-team playoff system.)
The previous record was 110 (increasing to 112) held by SW Missouri St
in 2003. However, the pRPI of SWMoSU was 61, much worse than the 44
of Louisville. The other difference is that SWMoSU got BBQ'd, which
Louisville managed to avoid by eliminating Mississippi State.
First (2-3-6-7) bracket:
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7. Louisville 10
2. Rice 15
Rice 14 N.Carolina 6 7*
N. Carolina 4 Rice 1* 4
6. Miss. St 5 N.Carolina 3
3. N. Carolina 8 Louisville 1
Louisville 12
Miss. St 4
Second (1-4-5-8) bracket:
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1. Oregon State 3
8. CSU,Fullerton 2
Arizona St 6 UC Irvine 1
Oregon St 12 Oregon St 7
4. UC Irvine 4 Arizona St 7
5. Arizona St v UC Irvine 8 (10)
CSU,Fullerton 4
UC Irvine 5 (13)
N.Carolina 000 020 110 - 4 12 2 Oregon St 021 012 41x - 11 12 2 Oregon St 031 010 202 - 9 13 0 N.Carolina 101 010 000 - 3 9 2