A Sea Of Red

We received 11 votes in the USA today poll this week.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/ ... t/2013/17/

received 24 votes in the USA Today polls this week.

Looks like we are on the outside for another week, getting the 6th most of unranked teams in the coaches poll.

A little surprised, but no big deal as long as we keep doing what we're doing and winning games.

Writers have us at 30.

SuperJon wrote:Writers have us at 30.

Man we can't get over that hump.

30 seems just about right at this point

http://boydsworld.com/baseball/rpi/rpineeds.html#L

Boyd's world has a great RPI needs report - predicts RPI for each team based on multiple scenarios. Note, it does not appear to factor the conference tournaments, just the remaining regular season games. I believe the actual final RPI would be influenced by the tournament results as well.

For Liberty to finish in the RPI Top X:

Top 45:

0 home wins, 4 road wins
1 home wins, 3 road wins
2 home wins, 2 road wins
3 home wins, 1 road wins
4 home wins, 0 road wins

Top 32:

3 home wins, 4 road wins
4 home wins, 2 road wins
5 home wins, 1 road wins
6 home wins, 0 road wins

Top 16:

7 home wins, 4 road wins

Top 8:

No way to reach the threshold.

So I was just looking at our opponents records. With the exception of UNF(17-23) Ohio(6-30yuck) and VaTech(18-22) We have not lost to a team with a record under .500. Uncw (20-20) is right at it. so 6 of the ten losses have been against teams more than 4 games above .500. Thats pretty freakin good.

Of our 32 wins, only 13 of them have been against teams under .500. Someone who is better at math than me can do the avg. winning percentage against teams over and under .500 if they want. I just thought it was cool.

Oh and we are tied with my employer for 5th most wins in the country.

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Greatest website for college baseball

We are a solid 2 seed and could probably stay there with a slip up or 2. In my opinion we have 2 scenarios to host. If we lose to uva i think we have to win the tourney sweep ccu and unca take 2 of 3 from raddy and beat elon. If we beat uva i think that gives us a shot without winning the tourney. Ohio is the only terrible loss we have. Tech and unf were def the next 2 in line.

jinxy wrote:We are a solid 2 seed and could probably stay there with a slip up or 2. In my opinion we have 2 scenarios to host. If we lose to uva i think we have to win the tourney sweep ccu and unca take 2 of 3 from raddy and beat elon. If we beat uva i think that gives us a shot without winning the tourney. Ohio is the only terrible loss we have. Tech and unf were def the next 2 in line.

Here is probably what will happen if we host. We will host as a 2 seed. Happens almost every year. There will be a couple of options to send a 1 seed to us. 1 - Houston and rice are top 16 rpi teams and they probably wnt give the city of Houston 2 hosts. Also, 6 SEC teams are in top 16 and they won't give the SEC all 6 host sites. The region is also missing the usual hosts, Clemson and UNC. So this is probably our scenario if it happens. I commend Barber and Guridy for giving us the facility that attracts the national scene and also commend Toman and the staff for putting us in this potential situation!!! This facility will make the committee look long and hard at us as a host site. According to Aaron Fitt - he thinks we just need to win the next 2 series to be a host site.

Coastal was sent to Arizona State I believe as the 1 seed, but their facilities weren't ready to host.

We are #21 in the newest Baseball America poll

jcmanson wrote:We are #21 in the newest Baseball America poll

Do you have a link? I still see the poll from 4/21 posted on that site.

#24 in Perfect Game

SumItUp wrote:

jcmanson wrote:We are #21 in the newest Baseball America poll

Do you have a link? I still see the poll from 4/21 posted on that site.

http://www.baseballamerica.com/college/ ... -april-28/

Actually says we're #22

Yes #22, my apologies

What is the highest LU has ever been ranked in baseball?

for those wondering because there is so many polls, NCAA does recognize BA.
http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/baseball/d ... ll-america

and hope the team is ready for being the hunted. saw it against UNCA. expect to see it against, CCU and Radford.

adam42381 wrote:What is the highest LU has ever been ranked in baseball?

This is the only time Liberty's ever been ranked by BA

Ballah is right...we only need to pick up a half game over those two series but it will not be easy

adam42381 wrote:What is the highest LU has ever been ranked in baseball?

This is it.

This is awesome. Congrats to the team!

The UVA game presents such a great opportunity to fly up the rankings.

USA Today's Coaches Poll doesn't even have us on their radar.

Coaches don't have time to watch games for their votes to make sense.