Florida State Baseball Wins their 5th ACC Tournament
by RaysnNoles on May 31, 2010 12:26 PM EDT
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PrintThe Florida State Seminoles beat the North Carolina State Wolfpack 8-3 on Sunday afternoon for their first ACC title crown since 2004. For the third game in a row the Noles pitching staff was able to shut down opposing offenses and FSU hitters continued to score runs despite all of Mike Martin's attempts to limit them.
Going into the tournament there was very little reason to believe this team could win other then blind faith and after the first game against Miami those predictions looked even more concrete. Then the pitching staff somehow got really good at getting opposing batters out.
As you can see Florida State pitchers were much better over the past 4 games then they were throughout the course of the entire season. The 'Noles had a worse FIP but I think we can attribute that to the little league like dimensions of the ballpark where a tournament record of homeruns were hit.
Florida State is playing the best ball they have all season which is exactly what you would like to see moving into the postseason and for the first time since 2006 they are going to have to continue their good play on the road. Despite playing their way into the title game Florida State did not earn a spot as a regional host. The more I think about this the less problems I have with it, to reward a team for getting hot over 3 games when there are more deserving teams who have a more impressive overall body of work is the right thing to do.
The predictions I have seen have Florida State as a #2 seed at Auburn or possibly a #1 seed at UCONN. Coming out of that Auburn regional would me a monumental task for the Noles as that team has one of the best offenses in the country and although FSU pitching has been throwing well we really don't know if that is sustainable for the rest of the season.
The Regionals will be set later this afternoon and you can expect a full breakdown later this week as games start this Friday.
Congrats to Tyler Holt and Stephen Cardullo for making the All ACC Tourney Team.
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#1 at UConn
Interesting….Someone called it in one of the previous post.
Our pitching is a timebomb, but this regional isn’t THAT difficult.
UConn
Central Connecticut
Oregon (making the tourney in their first year playing baseball)
2nd year after a 20 years of no baseball
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Really like the draw
For competition’s sake (we can win) and because it’s unique (we likely would never play any of these teams). Much better than being a retread playing Auburn and some C-USA team. I’d feel bad if we really deserved a regional, but we didn’t, so who cares.
We got screwed
A 1 shouldn’t travel if they bid
by LaneFenner on May 31, 2010 12:52 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Southern teams have such an advantage over northern teams that they like to try to give a little of that advantage back.
Trying to get that advantage evened out. I’m fine with it, even though i was looking forward to going to a couple regional games.
That's still not a terrible Regional, IMO
Outside of Louisville.
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by Randall W. Spetman on Jun 1, 2010 12:04 AM EDT up reply actions
i will
Never understand the logic behind giving a 2 seed a host site
by seminoles44 on May 31, 2010 1:20 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
They want to continue to grow baseball in the North
and so there’s a “courtesy Northern regional” every year, like some umpires give any 3-0 pitch that’s close as a strike.
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by MikeLew on May 31, 2010 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Really couldn't of asked for better matchups
Big East baseball is not the same caliber of ACC baseball. Oregon’s .500 record in conference play makes me think they are suspect.
Vandy could easily with that region and I then could be tailgating at the Dick for Supers.
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Wow...
Miami hosts and we don’t…I’m not sure I get that.
That being said tho I really like our bracket. I think we have a shot at Omaha.
We tied during the season/post-season, they have a better RPI and a better conference record. They should be hosting over us.
miami doesn't have a series win over a ranked team the entire year
no way they should be hosting over us
They ended up #1 in Strength of Schedule, ours was #24
How many series wins do we have over ranked opponents, 1?. Against common ACC opponents they were 18-6 and we were 16-8
No issues with them hosting over us.
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This is not that easy of a draw
According to the Baseball America rankings:
We just got bumped up to 10 (from 14 last week)
UCONN is up to 17 (from 19 last week)
Oregon just dropped out of the top-25 (from 21 last week)
As of last week, our field had 3 ranked teams.
Oregon is in the field for the first time since 1964, and only two years after reinstating the baseball program. Florida State is making its 33rd straight appearance, which ranks second all-time (to Miami’s 38 consecutive appearances).
Oh, and Louisville is 9 and Vandy is 25.
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Their competition is probably dreadful
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That's it?
THAT’s you’re reply to a “they have a good batting average”?
Color me disappointed. That was a softball, sitting on a tee.
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by Randall W. Spetman on Jun 1, 2010 12:07 AM EDT up reply actions
I could be wrong, but I'm not sure anyone is saying this is an easy draw.
It’s just one of the best draws we could have hoped for. We don’t have any SEC teams in our regional and there’s only one (Vandy) that we could possibly face in the supers. We do have a middle of the road Pac 10 team but it’s a winnable matchup. Louisville has had a good season (took two of three @ Ole Miss) but have faced very few ranked teams and their level of competition in the Big East isn’t as strong. Our pitching staff will make nothing easy, but all things considered, I do not believe we could have asked for better. I like our chances to get to a super. And if a few things go our way (i.e. bats go berserk or our pitching resembles our last three games) our chances of getting to Omaha are infinitely better than what I thought they were at this time last week. For the record, while I won’t be surprised if we find a way to lose in regionals, I think we’ll get through to supers.
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What about these guys?
RaysnNoles: “Really couldn’t of asked for better matchups.”
KnoxNole: “I really like our bracket.”
hopnole23: “Really like the draw.”
38Noles: “This regional isn’t THAT difficult.”
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I might concede the fourth statement. But the others have only expressed the same thoughts I did...that the draw is not as bad as it could have been.
To say something is easier than you expected it to be is not the same as saying it’s easy.
Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.
These are the best teams in the country.
It’s all relative.
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by Randall W. Spetman on Jun 1, 2010 12:08 AM EDT up reply actions
Best we could've hoped for
I don’t like college baseball rankings and think they reflect very poorly competition level. Couldn’t have hand-picked a better regional in which to end up.
>>---l>
It sux that we are the only #1 not hosting. That said, I love our draw!
I’m looking for the post with the breakdown of FSU and a lot of schools ratings over the past 4 years bowl games. If someone could help me out with a link please?
GO NOLES!!! SCALP EM!
I agree this is the best we could hope for.
We very easily could be in Clemson’s shoes as the 2 seed in the Auburn regional. Its a unique oppurtunity to play teams we wouldn’t normally. Also, if Vandy can unseat Louisville and we can take care of buisness we can get them back in Tally for Supers.
Meh
Bummed we’re not hosting, but love the draw. I’ll be angry if we don’t reach Supers.
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Don't be angry this still isn't a very good baseball team
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8 ACC teams made it in total, tied with the SEC and the Pac 10(?)
UVA and GT got national seeds
- UVA (#1) has Ole Miss, yikes. They should miss Pomeranz though
- GT (#1) has another SEC team in Alabama who played in the conference title game
- Clemson (#2) travels to a slugging Auburn team, Souther Miss in their first game is no cake walk either
- VT (#2) traves to USCe who has been and is always a very good baseball team
- NCST (#3) travels to Coastal Carolina and plays College of Charleston first, wouldn’t be shocked to see NCST advance from this regional
- Miami (#1) have one of the better Big 12 teams
- UNC (#3) travels to Oklahama and plays Cal on their first game
When you look at other teams of the same caliber as FSU within the conference we should consider ourselves grateful
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by RaysnNoles on May 31, 2010 7:22 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
RnN, have you looked closely at Bama's squad?
They finished .500 in the SEC, and went 37-22 in the regular season.
MattD’s “tournament theory” is smiling. I’d be shocked if they get past GT
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by Randall W. Spetman on Jun 1, 2010 12:14 AM EDT up reply actions
Not yet
Both them and underachieving LSU met in the tournament final so they could be playing well as of late. PAC 10 has 4 teams in the regionas with sub 500 conference records, they claim it’s just a bunch of good teams beating up on each other.
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Oregon had 73 sacrafice bunts this season to FSU's 29
That is a whole lot of drinking!
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Oregon's OPS was .783, Duke's was .776
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anyone going?
I live about an hour away from Uconn and am going to try and get up there this weekend, depending on when they play. Link below has the schedule.
http://www.uconnhuskies.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/10-ncaa-basebl-regional.html
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