CWS Tournament

UC IRVINE BRACKET

1) UC Irvine (43-13)

4) Fresno State (32-28)----------------->

3) San Diego State (40-21)

2) Virginia (43-12-1)

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1) Mississippi (40-17)

4) Monmouth (32-23)------------------->

3) Western Kentucky (39-18)

2) Missouri (34-25)

1) Rice (39-15)

4) Sam Houston St. (36-22)-------------->

3) Xavier (38-19)

2) Kansas State (41-16-1)

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1) LSU (46-16)

4) Southern U. (30-15)------------------->

3) Baylor (29-24)

2) Minnesota (38-17)

I saved you all the best for last! After careful research and crunching my numbers I finally figured out where I am going with the loaded UC Irvine Bracket. LSU is college baseball and they have not disappointed me in the least with their stellar play all season long in the stocked SEC. Honestly who would want to face this team in June? Where do I begin to talk about the #3 overall seed in the tournament? Only one player in their starting line up is batting under .300. Starting pitcher Louis Coleman, probably gets the least amount of love as far as stud pitchers are concerned and he has 11 victories and 2 CG. This team rarely plays small ball, wondering why...they stole 103 bases this season. My match up with Rice is a tough call, only because I picked both teams in my pre-season picks to advance to Omaha. Though Rice is a very good team and should push the Tigers to the brink of the 3 game of the Super Regionals, LSU will advance to Omaha. I got a chance to watch a very good Mississippi team in action this year at Gainesville. I was very impressed, even though their All-American pitcher, Scott Bittle was less than par on that day. Their starting line up is very balanced and defense is as stellar as it can get. Centerfielder and lead off man Jordan Henry gets the offense going with his .347 average, an OBP of .477, and 34-40 stolen base rate. Now to the best Regional Bracket in the tournament. UC Irvine has been atop all the polls for the last three weeks and then they get slapped right in the mouth for doing so in the Regionals. They received the #6 overall seed, face the defending champs in the first game (Fresno State), has the nation's best pitcher (Stephen Strasburg) and the ACC Champs (Virginia) in the other match up. You know what though, I still think that they can advance. But, Virginia is the hottest team entering the field with consecutive victories over North Carolina twice and Georgia Tech to win the ACC Tournament. I can't stear away from the Anteaters though. Loaded with All-Americans UC Irvine is destined to get back to Omaha this season. I just noticed that I again put all the #1 seeds to the Supers. Probably not going to happen. A couple of sleeper teams you should look out for if the #1's do end up going down are Baylor, Minnesota, Western Kentucky, and definitely Fresno State. So it's a wrap! Here are my final two teams to advance...

Omaha Bound:

UC Irvine

LSU

Recap my final 8:

Texas

Miami

Arizona St

UNC

Cal St Fullerton

Ohio State

UC Irvine

LSU