Baseball:  Big East Fan Poll

[Brad]

Which BIG EAST baseball team has been the biggest surprise so far?

USF - 41.6% (167 votes)

 

West Virginia - 29.2% (117 votes)

 

Louisville - 15.7% (63 votes)

 

Rutgers - 13.5% (54 votes)

 

Vote in poll at BigEast.org

[ChiTownBull]

What does it take in terms of wins to get to the post season?

[JoeB]

ChiTown, we'll need 40 wins just to be mentioned.  That isn't a given we get to the postseason.  The only given is if we win the Big East Tourney in Coney Island.

[bull2saintleo]

The Top 8 in Big East standings make the Tourney in Brooklyn and then after that I think the Tourney winner is guaranteed a spot in the Road to Omaha, but I'm not sure.

[ChiTownBull]

how many get invited to the tourney for a chance to get to omaha?

when was the last time we made it that far?

[Joe]

64 teams make it.

Seeded nationally 1-8 get to host regionals. Then the top 8 winners from the Regionals get Super Regionals. Winner of the super reegional gets a trip to Ohmaha.

I don't think USF has made it there, but I'm not huge on USF baseball history.

Typically the Big East is a 1-2 bid league, so winning or at least finishing in a clear second is imparative.

The only teams we've played relevant nationally have been Florida (recently ranked), Stetson (Leading A-Sun), and WVU. We then have Rutgers in a few weeks, who is a decent team and Georgia Tech (who is not having a GT type year)

Just keep winning!

[ChiTownBull]

thanks

how may BE games do we play?

as you said just keep winning

[USFan]

64 teams make it.

Seeded nationally 1-8 get to host regionals. Then the top 8 winners from the Regionals get Super Regionals. Winner of the super reegional gets a trip to Ohmaha.

I don't think USF has made it there, but I'm not huge on USF baseball history.

There are 16 regional series (4 teams per region).  The winners of the region go on to the Super Regional.  There are 8 super regional (16 teams) and the winners of the super regional go to the CWS (8 teams).

I believe USF has made it to the Super Regional before (final 16).

[Joe]

I meant as hosts sorrry, should have made that clear

[Reliabull]

USF has never made the Super Regional level, but that was instituted about 5 years ago.

Before, the field was 48 deep and there were eight 6-team regionals held. USF was the last team out a couple of times, I think, and the third team a couple of times. That's not bad considering the Bulls were usually no better than a 3 seed...

That format was particularly weighted to the home teams.