[krh44]

Great win tonight. In good shape now. The team we play tomorrow will have to play twice tomorrow.

[Guest]

Way to go Coach Royer and FLAMES!!!! Birmingham gone home yes. It is always a boost of
confidence to advance stay focused and give them your best shot.

[Chris Lang]

I'm absolutely confused by the brackets here ... it seems they're using the one on the bottom left (if you open the PDF file) ... but there's no provision of where to put Liberty if the Flames lose. Is Liberty guaranteed to be playing on Saturday now?

Pssst ... conspicuous guest FYI, please fill me in. I'm lost.

[SuperJon]

Here's what I think is going on:

If LU wins tomorrow night, they'll face WU/Coastal winner in an elimination game on Saturday. If they lose that game Saturday, they'll play a second, winner take all game.

If LU loses tomorrow night, I think, repeat THINK they'll be a game between the winner of the two games tomorrow on Saturday morning and then the winner take all game with LU on Saturday night.

[Chris Lang]

Just checked my work e-mail and Mark S. from the Big South sent the updated bracket ... so you're right on SJ:

If LU wins tomorrow night, they are in the championship game and would have to be beaten twice Saturday to get knocked out.

If LU loses tomorrow night, they play the winner of the WU-CCU game in a 1 p.m. game Saturday, with the winner going on to face the UNCA-HPU winner in the absolute championship game right after that.

So, yes, I'm going to Conway Saturday. Whew. Good to know.

[SuperJon]

Wow, I hadn't even looked at the brackets and pulled that one out of my butt. I'd love to get down there but alas I'm broke.

[A.G.]

A 6-team double elimination bracket can get very convaluted--and we can't even blame this one on Kyle--this is the way the COACHES voted for it.

[bigsmooth]

6 team brackets are ridiculous. i was really confused at first. anyway another good win by our guys. if we can get just enough pitching i think our bats can carry us to the regionals.

[WinthropEagleFan]

Back when the NCAA tourney only had 48 teams, and they had it as 8 6-team regionals, this is how that bracket worked too...

To put it simply, you guys are in the driver's seat as the only team without a loss left in the field. You guys can still lose once, and you guys only need to win 2 games from here on out to win the title. Everyone else left in the field needs to win three straight in order to win it...

[flameshaw]

Just checked my work e-mail and Mark S. from the Big South sent the updated bracket ... so you're right on SJ:

If LU wins tomorrow night, they are in the championship game and would have to be beaten twice Saturday to get knocked out.

If LU loses tomorrow night, they play the winner of the WU-CCU game in a 1 p.m. game Saturday, with the winner going on to face the UNCA-HPU winner in the absolute championship game right after that.

So, yes, I'm going to Conway Saturday. Whew. Good to know.

Chris,

Make sure you stay out of trouble down there, you know it is biker week in Myrtle Beach. A shopping tip for you: At the outlet center in Conway there is one of only two Tommy Bahama outlets in the US, the other one is in Las Vegas. Have a good trip and I am hoping LU can bring it home.

[LUconn]

Just to let everybody know the possibilites, this is also the way the intermural soccer tournament used to work. I was part of the team that was in the championship game that had to lose twice to lose it. And we lost twice. It really sucked.

[jcmanson]

Great job by the team. Hopefully we can win tonight, and then we will be set for Saturday.

[BJWilliams]

So this is sort of like a semifinal for us tonight then?

[A.G.]

Except LU has NO losses and everyone else has one. IF LU loses tonite, it will be a 3-team single elimination tourney on Saturday, with UNC-A going straight to the championship game (and LU getting the survivor of WU-CCU).

If LU wins, the winner of Coastal-Winthrop would have to beat the Flames twice tomorrow.