Doesn’t seem likely right now.
Total collapse by the pitching staff this year.
Auburn played at the other UT this weekend. Auburn had a melt down on Friday night. Bounced back and handed #1 Tennessee just their 4th loss of the year.
Sunday’s game, was another tight game. UT turned things over to Ben Joyce in the 6th with two on and no one out and the score tied 3-3. The flame thrower went a season long 4 innings. He struck out 6 batters. According to the Knoxville paper, of his 53 pitches, he threw 33 fastballs during his outing. 28 registered over 103 MPH, 15 were over 104 and 3 were over 105. The top one hit 105.5 MPH on Tennessee’s gun. There has been talk that the Tennessee gun is juiced but he hit 103 & 104 at U of Fla last weekend.
Tennessee scored two runs in the 8th to win the game and the series.
I watched most of the Friday game and some of the Saturday game. Tennessee is a very good team. They execute well on offense and defense.
Oh and things did get spicy about a bat flip during Saturday night’s game
105.5 is tied for the fastest ever recorded, is it not?
It is for the NCAA for sure.
I saw the video of the 105.5 mph. Wow…
For NCAA it is the fastest. My understanding is Chapman hit 105.8 in the MLB.
I didn’t know Altuve’s exit velocity gets credited to Chapman.
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The 40-4 Vols remain atop the Top 25 rankings with Oregon St in second. OSU with their road sweep of the Horns clocks in at #3.
UT falls out of the rankings for the first time this season. Tech is at #9 while TCU is at #24.
Texas St is at #17.
OSU is very good. Tech is a very tenuous #9 with no Sunday pitching…at all. TCU is better than their ranking (IMHO) and I’m flabbergasted by the 'Horns fortunes this year.
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Wow. BA now has Texas as a regional three seed, behind host A&M and Texas State.
Texas Tech swept the Oklahoma State Cowboys in Stillwater. This was huge for the Red Raiders as it puts them in position to win the Big XII outright.
D1 has their Top 25 out and The Big XII gets a big snub in my opinion.
Texas Tech has the highest ranking in the conference at #5. The sweep of Oklahoma State brought them up from #9. Meanwhile, getting swept by Tech dropped the Cowboys from #3 to #8.
There are no more ranked Big XII teams until you get to Texas at #22 and TCU at #24. Both those rankings are too low and where is Oklahoma?
RPI doesn’t think much of the Big XII this year as Oklahoma State is the only Big XII team in the Top 25 for RPI at #12.
Have you already ceded Texas to the SEC? They are at #18 in the RPI.
Rankings in College baseball mean less than in any other college sport. Auburn is ranked #18 to #23 in various polls and yet are #4 in RPI. Yet they are projected as a regional host as the #9 seed by Baseball America right now. There is now rhyme or reason to any of it.
Absolutely. I do not know why he obsesses so much over that nonsense.
Ooops! My mistake! Still, not much RPI representation this year.
Starting last month, OU certainly got hot at the right time…
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After upsetting No. 6 Texas Tech in Thursday’s opener, No. 24 Oklahoma doubled down Friday and clinched a series win in Lubbock with a 9-6 victory. With the win, the Sooners (33-19, 15-8) knocked the Red Raiders (35-18, 14-9) out of the Big 12 title race and kept their own championship hopes alive. If Oklahoma can complete the sweep Saturday afternoon, it wins the conference title. TCU (34-18, 16-8) has already completed its conference slate and clinched a share of the title, but because the Sooners won their series against the Horned Frogs, they are just a win away from their first Big 12 regular-season title. They last won a regular-season championship in 1995, when the conference was still the Big Eight. Oklahoma has made a hard charge in the second half of the season. It has won five straight Big 12 series since it lost the Bedlam Series against Oklahoma State in early April. That run includes series wins on the road at TCU and now Texas Tech. The late push has not only given the Sooners a chance to win the Big 12 title, it has also propelled them into contention to host a regional. They have not hosted since 2010, when they last made the College World Series. One more win this weekend might be enough to earn the right to start the NCAA Tournament at home.
SBC champ Texas State finishes the regular season with 10 straight wins, a 44-11 overall record and 26-4 in conference play. #27 in RPI.
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They butchered Red Raider pitching on Thursday and Friday in Lubbock to take Tech out of the Big XII title race. Tech salvaged the game today, but, too little, too late.