. . . so long as we’re a top 8 “National” seed, I’m good . . . but I wouldn’t be surprised to see us end up anywhere from 6 to 8 (as opposed to 4 or 5, where most national websites were predicting us a couple of days ago) when they are announced on Monday.
One reason for that is our Q1 record (vs. top 50 of RPI) took a hit the last week of the season with Kentucky, Texas and La. Tech all falling below that mark. That took our cumulative 5-3 record against those three into Q2 and “only” left us with a 19-11 Q1 record. That is impressive, but having 10 more wins than your Q1 opponents put us in elite territory with only 4 other teems (Vandy, UCLA, MSU and Georgia). That, along with our mini-slide the last 2 weeks (vs. A&M and at the SEC Tournament) and RPI dropping to 6 or 7 (depending on what the official rankings show - we are in a virtual tie for 6th with Oklahoma State right now) and I can see us dropping a slot or two.
But - again - if we’re Top 8 then we still control our own destiny.
The official RPI on the NCAA website through yesterday’s games (and thus what the committee had to work with last night/this morning) was #6. East Carolina, though, is #5 and I have not seen anyone projecting them as a national seed, and they didn’t make their conference tournament final either.
D1 Baseball has had us as the 5 seed for a while now and that makes the most sense to me. They have Okie Lite as the 8 seed and ECU as the 10. Louisville dropped out of the top 8 after its crash and burn in the ACC tournament.