Sycamores NCAA D1 RPI Baseball Rankings

[DyedBlue]

Relegation and promotion would clarify competition arguments at the cost of increased travel cost.

Baseball might be the ideal spot to test the concept with its mostly weekend conference series format.

 

[Eleven]

Instead you have the 11point7 dude saying we're "hacking" the RPI and then Ole Miss fans wanting to take Hannahs.

Boy does THAT sound familiar...

 

[Huff77]

Difference being Hannah's hasn't been looking for an out since day 1.

 

[Eleven]

May 13th Polls (Previous Week in Parenthesis, links to each poll provided below)

RPI - 10 (9)
NCBWA - 17 (17)
USA Today Coaches - 20 (18)
D1 Baseball - 20 (20)
Baseball America - 23 (24)
Mid-Major Power Rankings - 1 (2) -- Sycamores are the Top Mid-Major program in the country!

Games between poll dates: ISU Clinches Outright MVC Title for 2nd consecutive year! First time in program history!
vs Evansville (W) 5-4
vs Evansville (W) 6-4
vs Evansville - (L) 7-6 Senior Night. 9 Seniors played their final Regular Season home game.

18th Straight MVC Series Win.

Upcoming Games:
at Ball State - May 14 (Tue) 3pm
vs Valparaiso - May 16 (Thu) 4pm
vs Valparaiso - May 17 (Fri) 2pm
vs Valparaiso - May 18 (Sat) 2pm

 

[Sycamorefan96]

20th in the coaches poll (dropped 2 spots).

 

[FearDaTrees]

#1 mid-major poll this week for the first time ever.

 

[Jason Svoboda]

Keep seeing all of these SEC teams wanting into our regional because we'd be the easy out. Really hope we grant someone their wish and wipe them.

 

[treeman]

Keep seeing all of these SEC teams wanting into our regional because we'd be the easy out. Really hope we grant someone their wish and wipe them.

I remember last year when Iowa, North Carolina, and Wright State were saying the same thing

 

[Huff77]

Must

Keep seeing all of these SEC teams wanting into our regional because we'd be the easy out. Really hope we grant someone their wish and wipe them.

Can't be that easy of an out if only one of them wants to schedule us for a Tuesday home game each year.

 

[Bluethunder]

Keep seeing all of these SEC teams wanting into our regional because we'd be the easy out. Really hope we grant someone their wish and wipe them.

Considering we are struggling to put a really bad Valpo team away right now I can’t blame them.

 

[Sycamorefan96]

Considering we are struggling to put a really bad Valpo team away right now I can’t blame them.

Unfortunately I agree. I'm not sure our pitching is deep enough this season to have another deep run like we did last season. Losing all three starting weekend pitchers from a year ago is just tough. The Vandy and Illinois games in particular weren't very pretty and some of these MVC games have even been head scratchers like today.

Does anybody have any opinions on our hosting chances if we don't win the automatic bid in Evansville? I think we get to host for sure if we win it, but if we don't then I think we'll likely get dropped to the #2 line.

 

[treeman]

Unfortunately I agree. I'm not sure our pitching is deep enough this season to have another deep run like we did last season. Losing all three starting weekend pitchers from a year ago is just tough. The Vandy and Illinois games in particular weren't very pretty and some of these MVC games have even been head scratchers like today.

Does anybody have any opinions on our hosting chances if we don't win the automatic bid in Evansville? I think we get to host for sure if we win it, but if we don't then I think we'll likely get dropped to the #2 line.

While i agree our starting pitching needs to step up a notch if we want to replicate last year. But let's not act like we are a bad team. I mean the fact that we lost 3 phenomenal starters from last years squad are in position to host against is nothing short of amazing.

But it's baseball you are going to get some wonky scores and head scratching games throughout the season. I mean last year we beat Illinois State and their 202 RPI 2-0, 4-3 (10 innings), 4-3. Yeah we swept them, but we barely got by, and we turned out just fine last year.

As far as hosting. If we win the conference tournament we are 100% hosting, not even a question. I think if win tomorrow against Valpo that will give us some grace. If we don't win the conference tournament it will just depend who we beat or lost too and what other teams do. But overall to be having this conversation 2 years in a row for a northern mid-major is truly incredible.

 

[MovingScreenOfDeath]

 

[Bluethunder]

While i agree our starting pitching needs to step up a notch if we want to replicate last year. But let's not act like we are a bad team. I mean the fact that we lost 3 phenomenal starters from last years squad are in position to host against is nothing short of amazing.

But it's baseball you are going to get some wonky scores and head scratching games throughout the season. I mean last year we beat Illinois State and their 202 RPI 2-0, 4-3 (10 innings), 4-3. Yeah we swept them, but we barely got by, and we turned out just fine last year.

As far as hosting. If we win the conference tournament we are 100% hosting, not even a question. I think if win tomorrow against Valpo that will give us some grace. If we don't win the conference tournament it will just depend who we beat or lost too and what other teams do. But overall to be having this conversation 2 years in a row for a northern mid-major is truly incredible.

I think as long as we get to the finals of the MVC tourney we host.

Short of that it will depend on what happens in other leagues. Winning our regional last year (combined with the atmosphere) probably will help.

Agree with you 100% that you get crazy scores during a long season. My point was merely that giving up 9 runs to a pretty bad Valpo team isn’t going to strike fear into a lot of teams so I can see why SEC teams would be fine coming to play in Terre Haute. I think they would be wrong to feel that way but I understand why they do.

Feel like our bullpen is our strength this year so hopefully our starters can eat some innings and we dont have to rely on them too much in Evansville.

Cutts didn’t even get an out today. Not good with the post season right around the corner.

 

[Sycamorefan96]

Bracketology

www.collegesportsmadness.com

16 Indiana State
#2) Vanderbilt
#3) Indiana
#4) Bowling Green

College World Series Bracket Projection - DRatings

The College World Series Regionals consist of 64 teams of which 31 are automatic qualifiers and 33 are at-large bids.

www.dratings.com

15 Indiana State
#2) Oklahoma
#3) Connecticut
#4) USC Upstate

2024 NCAA Baseball Tournament Bracket: Projected Field Of 64 (May 15)

Most college baseball conferences have just one weekend of play remaining before the postseason. Here's our latest bracket projection.

www.baseballamerica.com

12 Indiana State
#2) NC State
#3) Cincinnati
#4) Bowling Green

College baseball bracketology: Kentucky holds No. 1 seed entering final SEC series, per D1Baseball projections

Regular-season finales could shake up the NCAA tournament bracket.

247sports.com

11 Indiana State
#2) Arizona
#3) Illinois
#4) Bowling Green

 

[meistro]

While i agree our starting pitching needs to step up a notch if we want to replicate last year. But let's not act like we are a bad team. I mean the fact that we lost 3 phenomenal starters from last years squad are in position to host against is nothing short of amazing.

But it's baseball you are going to get some wonky scores and head scratching games throughout the season. I mean last year we beat Illinois State and their 202 RPI 2-0, 4-3 (10 innings), 4-3. Yeah we swept them, but we barely got by, and we turned out just fine last year.

As far as hosting. If we win the conference tournament we are 100% hosting, not even a question. I think if win tomorrow against Valpo that will give us some grace. If we don't win the conference tournament it will just depend who we beat or lost too and what other teams do. But overall to be having this conversation 2 years in a row for a northern mid-major is truly incredible.

Thank you for bringing sanity to this conversation.

 

[SycamoreBlue3209]

Bracketology

www.collegesportsmadness.com

16 Indiana State
#2) Vanderbilt
#3) Indiana
#4) Bowling Green

College World Series Bracket Projection - DRatings

The College World Series Regionals consist of 64 teams of which 31 are automatic qualifiers and 33 are at-large bids.

www.dratings.com

15 Indiana State
#2) Oklahoma
#3) Connecticut
#4) USC Upstate

2024 NCAA Baseball Tournament Bracket: Projected Field Of 64 (May 15)

Most college baseball conferences have just one weekend of play remaining before the postseason. Here's our latest bracket projection.

www.baseballamerica.com

12 Indiana State
#2) NC State
#3) Cincinnati
#4) Bowling Green

College baseball bracketology: Kentucky holds No. 1 seed entering final SEC series, per D1Baseball projections

Regular-season finales could shake up the NCAA tournament bracket.

247sports.com

11 Indiana State
#2) Arizona
#3) Illinois
#4) Bowling Green

My preference is to avoid IU in our Regional. We can certainly beat them, but they would create more competition for tickets for Sycamore fans.
We want as much Sycamore Blue in there as possible!

 

[Sycamorefan96]

My preference is to avoid IU in our Regional. We can certainly beat them, but they would create more competition for tickets for Sycamore fans.
We want as much Sycamore Blue in there as possible!

Add Illinois to that list too. I'd be extremely happy if Arizona and Connecticut ended up in our bracket.

 

[Eleven]

May 19th Polls (Previous Week in parenthesis, links to each poll provided below)

RPI - 9 (10)
NCBWA - 17 (17)
USA Today Coaches - 20 (20)
D1 Baseball - 20 (20)
Baseball America - 23 (23)
Mid-Major Power Rankings - 1 (2)

Games between poll dates: ISU Clinches Outright MVC Title for 2nd consecutive year! First time in program history!
at Ball State - Cancelled due to weather (and indifference!)
vs Valparaiso - (W) 13-4
vs Valparaiso - (W) 11-9
vs Valparaiso - (W) 15-4 (7 inn.) (Kaleb Hannah's Senior Day)

19th Straight MVC Series Win.

Upcoming Games: MVC Tournament
TBD - May 22 (Wed) 5pm EST.