Current status:
Super Regionals complete. (12 June 2007)
Updated Dec 2010:
The results shown here now reflect the NCAA sanctions imposed on
Florida State and Arizona State described in the
"regional" results page. I have entered a "v" after the column appropriate
to the number of wins that remain after vacating the ones the NCAA
identified as using ineligible athletes (0 for Arizona State
and 1 for Florida State) and reduced the number in the column
where they had been originally. As a result, the numbers in the
"2+" and "champ" columns no longer add up to 16 or 8 as they normally should
and the "0" and "1" columns have too many in them.
This is a 'scorecard' by conference for 2007, the 9-th for the 64-team playoff system where every conference gets an automatic bid. You can find the full results elsewhere.
My original motivation for this summary was the thought that the regionals are a major source of inter-conference and inter-region play that helps one evaluate the relative strength and (possibly) future seedings of teams from various regions and conferences. Today it mainly provides a check on the value of the RPI and other decisions that go into seeding the tournament.
Here is the 'histogram' of the success rate for the 2007 NCAA regionals.
I tally a Regional champion under "win" and the Super-Regional champion (the team that goes to the CWS) under "champ" so the "champ" column is unchanged from the older 48-team system.
Note: Only 4 of 7 ACC teams won their first round games.
------ wins ------
Conference Number 0 1 2+ win champ comments
========== ====== === === === === ===== -----------------
ACC 7 4v 1 1 1 more than half!?
Big-12 6 1 3 2 fair
SEC 5 2 2 1 perfect in first round
Pac-10 4 1v 1 1 1 perfect in first round
Big West 4 1 1 2 strong showing!
Conf USA 4 1 2 1 weak except for Rice
Big East 3 2 1 only 1 of 3 in first round
Big Ten 3 2 1 Third bid dumped 8th seed
SunBelt 3 1 1 1 weak
Mo-Valley 2 1 1 fairly solid
Southern 2 1 1 .
Atlantic Sun 2 1 1 very weak
West Coast 2 2 national seed is 0-2-BBQ!
WAC 1 1 upset national seed
Atlantic-10 1 1 .
Southland 1 1 .
Big South 1 1 .
Mountain West 1 1 .
Horizon 1 1 .
Ohio Valley 1 1 .
Mid-Continent 1 1 .
Metro Atlantic 1 1 .
Colonial 1 1 .
MAC 1 1 .
Patriot 1 1 .
Ivy 1 1 .
America East 1 1 .
Northeast 1 1 .
MEAC 1 1 .
SWAC 1 1 .
independent 0 . . . . . Miami now in ACC