It's the baseball equivalent of the Sweet Sixteen, the Super-Regionals! ...And I feel super-lucky to have both my undergrad alma mater and current graduate school in the mix and get to cheer them on! But I noticed some things about this year's teams that I thought I'd share...
The Sweet 16: Louisville, Cal State-Fullerton, Arkansas, Florida State, Virginia, Mississippi, Rice, LSU, TCU, Texas, Southern Miss, Florida, Clemson, Arizona State, East Carolina, & North Carolina
Of the 16 teams...
- 4 ACC teams: ECU, UNC, Clemson, & Florida State
- 4 SEC teams: Ole Miss, LSU, Florida, & Arkansas
- 3 Conference-USA teams: Southern Miss, Rice, & East Carolina
- 3 teams are in Texas: Rice, Texas, and Texas Christian (TCU)
- 3 post season match-ups: Clemson is one of only a few teams that has had post-season games for all 3 major sports this year (a bowl game in football, the NCAA tournament in basketball, and the current berth in baseball)
- 2 in state-rivalries match-up: North Carolina (UNC and East Carolina) and Texas (TCU and Texas)
- 2 Tigers: Clemson & LSU (are the tigers, though only one has a live tiger mascot)
- 0: previous trips to the super-regionals for UVA
- 0: teams from last year's championship series (UGA and Fresno State, the runner-up and winner, respectively)
- 1996: last time that Rice didn't win the regular season title for its conference
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