Raleigh Regional

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Wolfpack Baseball and Doak Field has been selected as a regional host site for the NCAA Baseball Tournament for the second straight year.

The Pack barely misses out on a national seed.  If I may wax philosophic for a moment….

Losing 2 of 3 to FSU at home slit our throats, no doubt.  That, coupled with finishing a half game behind the ‘Noles in the Atlantic Division did us in.  We finished with a better RPI than they did (#7 vs #8) against a tougher schedule.  In fact, if you look at us against the top 8 national seeds, aside from Carolina, we are the only other team to earn our top 8 RPI against a top 10 schedule.

Thus, letting FSU punk us in Raleigh is the only good explanation.  Oh well, time to move on.

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The Raleigh Regional is paired with the Eugene Regional.  Thus, should the Pack emerge unscathed from Raleigh, they will likely go on the road (big time) to the pacific northwest to Eugene, Oregon to face the Ducks for the Super Regionals, should they hold serve at home.

The Pack could still host a Super Regional in Raleigh should the Ducks fail to advance from Eugene.  So….GO RICE!!!!…GO SAN FRANCISCO!!!!…GO SD STATE!!!! (Sorry Ducks…nothing personal).

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The Pack will welcome as its guests for the Raleigh Regional, Ole Miss, William and Mary and Binghamton.

The regional rounds are a double elimination bracket.  Games for the Raleigh Regional will get underway this Friday, May 31st:

Day One

  • Game One – #2 Ole Miss vs #3 William and Mary – 2pm
  • Game Two – #1 NC State vs #4 Binghamton – 7pm

Day Two (Saturday June 1) will feature the winners and losers from day one games facing one another:

  • Game Three – (Loser’s Bracket) – 2pm
  • Game Four – (Winner’s Bracket) – 7pm

Day Three (Sunday June 2) will feature two elimination games:

  • Game Five – (Winner Game Three vs Loser Game Four) – 1pm
  • Game Six – (Winner Game Four vs Winner Game Five) – 6pm

Day Four (Monday June 3) if necessary, will determine the winner

  • Game Seven – (Winner Game Six vs Loser Game Six) – 7pm

 

Raleigh Regional Info (GoPack.com)

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Special tip of the cap to Virginia Tech, which secured a fifth hosting nod for the ACC on the strength of their performance in Durham.  Way to go Hokies!!!!

The ACC leads the country with five of the regionals, followed by the SEC (4) and the Pac-12 (3).  The Big 12, Big Ten, Big West and Big East all have one each.

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Other regional sites/HOST (Record) (National seed) (ACC teams in bold)

  • Baton Rouge/LSU (52-9) (#4)
  • Blacksburg/VIRGINIA TECH (38-20)
  • Bloomington/INDIANA (43-14)
  • Chapel Hill/N. CAROLINA (52-8) (#1)
  • Charlottesville/VIRGINIA (47-10) (#6)
  • Columbia/SOUTH CAROLINA (39-18)
  • Corvallis/OREGON STATE (45-10) (#3)
  • Eugene/OREGON (45-14) (#8)
  • Fullerton/CS FULLERTON (48-8) (#5)
  • Los Angeles/UCLA (39-17)
  • Louisville/LOUISVILLE (46-12)
  • Manhattan/KANSAS STATE (41-17)
  • Nashville/VANDERBILT (51-9) (#2)
  • Raleigh/NC STATE (44-14) 
  • Starkville/MISSISSIPPI STATE (43-17)
  • Tallahassee/FLORIDA STATE (44-15) (#7)

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Other ACC Schools to earn non-hosting bids were:

  • Clemson (#2 Columbia Regional)
  • Georgia Tech (#2 Nashville Regional)
  • Miami (#2 Louisville Regional)

The SEC led with 9 total bids, the ACC was next with 8.

FULL PAIRINGS/BRACKETS (NCAA.com)

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We’ll have a more in depth preview of the Raleigh Regional up later in the week.

Oh, and eff you ‘Noles. 😀

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41 Responses to Raleigh Regional

  1. elvislives 05/27/2013 at 12:37 PM #

    Agreed Wuf, it had to come down to head-to-head against FSU for them to get the nod over State for the #7. It seemed that having 4 of the 8 Super Regionals hosts from the ACC was not an option for the committee. I understand, politics, geography and what not. Until the ACC dominates in CWS championships like the SEC has done in football, they can’t expect to get that type of favorable bias.

    I like the potential match-up with the Eugene Super Regional. But I am curious, what happens when Rice beats Oregon? Would that mean that Oregon would lose their host site and the Super Regional would relocate to Raleigh?

    Not trying to look past this weekend’s match-up, just fun to look ahead and play what-if. We get at least one day to do that, don’t we?

  2. 13OT 05/27/2013 at 12:39 PM #

    I don’t have a problem so much with not getting a Super Regional, but why Oregon? Hardly anyone else, especially as highly-ranked as us, has to travel across the country if we win our regional. Charlottesville or Blacksburg would have made far more sense from a team AND fan standpoint than Eugene.

    But at least we got in. The real screw-job is Campbell being in this week’s Top 25 and not even getting in. Further proof that ESPN has taken over control of the college tournaments from the NCAA.

  3. Wufpacker 05/27/2013 at 12:39 PM #

    @elvis…I’m updating the entry as we go, and I have added that info, but to expand more…

    Yes, if Oregon falls, we COULD host super regionals. No guarantee there and the NCAA would decide at that time. But it would be likely I would think.

    @13OT….based strictly on seedings more than likely. Also, there weren’t many choices since they would try their best not to pair us with another regional hosted by an ACC school. As a non national seed, we would only be paired with one of the national seed school host sites for super regionals, incidentally.

  4. cooldrip 05/27/2013 at 12:46 PM #

    Screwed by the NCAA, with our RPI and record against the top 25and top 50, is the only explanation. Oregon is an NCAA darling, so we should have seen this coming. Campbell being left out is just further evidence.

  5. GAWolf 05/27/2013 at 12:58 PM #

    Before we gripe about having to travel to Oregon for the likely Super, please keep in mind that Oregon provides the easiest path to Omaha of the top 8 seeds.

    I would be substantially more upset if we had to go to another super regional of an SEC or ACC host.

    Give me Oregon, if I had the say.

  6. Wufpacker 05/27/2013 at 1:00 PM #

    Agreed GA…I didn’t think it likely, but was afraid they might do the “minimize travel” thing and send us to Nashville.

    Thank Christ they didn’t do that.

  7. tjfoose1 05/27/2013 at 1:20 PM #

    Sometimes a long road trip like this can help a team reset and get more focused. I hope so, I saw a lot of body language in the later innings Saturday night I did not like.

  8. Wufpacker 05/27/2013 at 1:28 PM #

    Updated with game times.

  9. TheCOWDOG 05/27/2013 at 2:02 PM #

    Forward looking…A bullet was dodged by Westward travel.

    In the end, it don’t much matter. Getting there is everything…anything can happen once ya got the chance.

  10. tjfoose1 05/27/2013 at 2:18 PM #

    ^^^ That was a somewhat dumb comment considering a potential trip to Oregon is 2 weeks away, with a regional the next step.

  11. Wufpacker 05/27/2013 at 2:37 PM #

    LOL ‘foose. You might be a lot of things, but dumb ain’t one of ’em.

    Let’s just call it “early”, shall we?

    😀

  12. WolfTrack 05/27/2013 at 2:54 PM #

    I like our regional, Ole Miss and W&M are decent squads and there could be some fun games to watch but they are two who we should be able to take. Don’t know squat about Binghamton.

    We didn’t get the best scenario but count our blessings we’re not Clemson right now.

  13. TheCOWDOG 05/27/2013 at 2:55 PM #

    Hey foose. Ya didn’t answer me Sat. nite. I was gonna buy ya a barley smoothie up in Tobacco Road.

    Now yur on yur way to the Cascades, two weeks before the party.

  14. Wufpacker 05/27/2013 at 3:28 PM #

    @ Wolftrack….Binghamton is the automatic qualifier from the America East Conference.

    30-23 on the year, RPI of 171.

    They were going nowhere without the conf champs win.

    They beat out other teams such as Maine (top seed), Stony Brook (last year’s NCAA Cinderella darlings) and Albany (LMAO).

    Sorry…I went rogue there for a minute in my brain.

  15. BJD95 05/27/2013 at 3:36 PM #

    The question with the 4 seeds, as always, is whether they have an excellent #1 starter that could make our lives more interesting than we would like.

  16. TheCOWDOG 05/27/2013 at 3:40 PM #

    Rogue is right, Desert Boy. You puttin’ a knock on ballplayers born and bred in the great state …the Empire State, of New York?!!

  17. Wufpacker 05/27/2013 at 3:42 PM #

    LOL ‘Dog…nothing personal. You know from wence I came on that one.

    And BJD, you’ll just have to wait like everyone else for the preview. But remember the name Rogalla.

    Lambert too.

  18. TheCOWDOG 05/27/2013 at 3:48 PM #

    Beej…everyone has someone. That 4 seed’s ace may only be a guy like FSU’s mid-weeker. But he’s there.

  19. Wufpacker 05/27/2013 at 3:55 PM #

    Albany (the Great Danes for those who care) scored a whole run in that conf. tourney btw. 🙂

  20. BJD95 05/27/2013 at 4:04 PM #

    True, but sometimes that ace is considerably better than that, and a legitimate MLB candidate. Like that dude from Stony Brook who beat us a few years back (IIRC).

  21. tjfoose1 05/27/2013 at 4:15 PM #

    Yeah, sorry about that ‘Dog. I was getting weak cell coverage and didn’t notice that till after I was gone, assuming I was “goose”.

    I was underneath the bull ’till the later innings, when I grabbed a seat behind the home plate netting with some friends.

  22. TheCOWDOG 05/27/2013 at 4:16 PM #

    Yes…I was short, dude. But what I meant was, their particular Ace, might not be our particular Ace…but just nasty enough, and good enough.

  23. MrPlywood 05/27/2013 at 4:18 PM #

    So close, yet… I kept an eye on the uNX game via GameTracker (don’t tell me that there was a video link somewhere) and was really pulling for the Pack to eliminate Carolina’s collection of male models. State sure had their chances.

    Time to regroup and make it out to Oregon… could be an outside chance at a road trip for me 🙂

  24. TheCOWDOG 05/27/2013 at 5:10 PM #

    What? First Desert Boy knocks NY ballplayers and then Canadian Driftwood burns male model rounders…damn I made decent money at both.

  25. GAWolf 05/27/2013 at 5:18 PM #

    We need to Turner to get out of his slump along with a couple of the other guys in the lineup.

    As we’ve learned, Rodon can literally one hit a team for 10 innings and without run support it’s a wasted effort.

    Hopefully this group can all get on the same page and come out and, in a very reasonable expectation, pave their way to Omaha.

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