NCAA Tournament Thread

[HuskerFever]

On 5/31/2017 at 9:52 AM, HuskerFever said:

Big Ten Teams in Regionals:

 

Michigan: June 2: 12:00 PM CDT, #3 Michigan vs. #2 Florida Gulf Coast (ESPN3)

Maryland: June 2: 01:00 PM CDT, #3 Maryland vs. #2 West Virginia (ESPN3)

Nebraska: June 2: 03:00 PM CDT, #2 Nebraska vs. #3 Yale (ESPNU)

Indiana:    June 2: 06:00 PM CDT, #2 Indiana vs. #3 North Carolina State (ESPN3)

Iowa:        June 2: 07:00 PM CDT, #4 Iowa vs. #1 Houston (ESPNU)

 

Bump.

 

Also, it appears our game will be on ESPN3 now:

 

 

[Bugeaters1]

2 minutes ago, HuskerFever said:

 

Bump.

 

Also, it appears our game will be on ESPN3 now:

 

 

It always has been on ESPN3.

Edited June 2, 2017 by Bugeaters1

[HuskerFever]

In the Stanford regional today:

 

#1 Stanford defeats #4 Sacramento State, 10-0

#2 Cal State Fullerton defeats #3 BYU, 13-2

[HuskerFever]

I hope you like baseball, because there's a lot of action going on today!
 

(All times CDT)

 

11:00 AM

#3 Auburn vs. #2 Central Florida (ESPN2)

#3 St. John's vs. #2 Vanderbilt (ESPN3)

#4 Ohio vs. #1 Kentucky (ESPNU)

 

12:00 PM

#3 Bethune-Cookman vs. #2 South Florida (ESPN3)

#3 Michigan vs. #2 Florida Gulf Coast (ESPN3)

 

01:00 PM

#3 Maryland vs. #2 West Virginia (ESPN3)

#3 Xavier vs. #2 Oklahoma (ESPN3)

#4 Illinois-Chicago vs. #1 Southern Mississippi (ESPN3)

 

02:00 PM

#3 Oklahoma State vs. #2 Missouri State (ESPN3)

#3 Texas A&M vs. #2 Baylor (ESPN2)

#4 Delaware vs. #1 Texas Tech (ESPN3)

 

02:30 PM

#4 Texas Southern vs. #1 Louisiana State (ESPN3)

 

03:00 PM

#4 Brigham Young vs. #4 Sacramento State (ESPN3) (elimination game)

#3 Yale vs. #2 Nebraska (ESPN3)

#3 Dallas Baptist vs. #2 Virginia (ESPNU)

 

05:00 PM

#4 Davidson vs. #1 North Carolina (ESPN3)

#4 Radford vs. #1 Louisville (ESPN3)

#4 Tennessee Tech vs. #1 Florida State (ESPN3)

 

06:00 PM

#3 Sam Houston State vs. #2 Arizona (ESPN3)

#4 North Carolina-Greensboro vs. #1 Clemson (ESPN3)

#4 Maryland-Baltimore County vs. #1 Wake Forest (ESPN3)

#3 South Alabama vs. #2 Mississippi State (ESPN3)

#4 Marist vs. #1 Florida (ESPN3)

#3 California-Los Angeles vs. #2 Texas (ESPN2)

#3 North Carolina State vs. #2 Indiana (ESPN3)

 

07:00 PM

#4 Iowa vs. #1 Houston (ESPNU)

#4 Oral Roberts vs. #1 Arkansas (ESPN3)

#3 Rice vs. #2 Southern Louisiana (ESPN3)

 

08:00 PM

#1 Stanford vs. California State Fullerton (ESPN3)

#4 Central Connecticut State vs. #1 Texas Christian (ESPN3)

 

10:00 PM

#4 San Diego State vs. #1 Long Beach State (ESPN2)

#4 Holy Cross vs. #1 Oregon State (ESPNU)

[hskr4life]

Fun note of tourney #1... The Kentucky starting pitcher was actually a Nebraska transfer who went the Juco route a few years ago.

[hskr4life]

Fun note of tourney #2... Eli Lovell is from Lincoln Nebraska and is starting for FGCU against Michigan.

[The Polish Rifle]

Meyers on the bump today. 

[hskr4life]

Oh Boy

[hskr4life]

Here we go again... 2 out stuff that doesn't mean squat.

[brfrad]

Why do we always suck in postseason play?  Are we tight?  The last 3 regionals we have played like dog poop.

[brfrad]

This seems like the same song and dance every year.  Play like crap the first game, get in the loser's bracket right away, and fade quickly in the regionals.

[The Polish Rifle]

Yale looks like the 2 seed. We look like the small conf scrubs out of their league.

[colhusker]

7 minutes ago, brfrad said:

Why do we always suck in postseason play?  Are we tight?  The last 3 regionals we have played like dog poop.

See Polish rifle's comment about this.

[brfrad]

Did we spend anytime scouting this Yale team?  Yale has a 5.51 team ERA.  Their only pitchers with an ERA under 3.50, are the 1st baseman, who has a 2.79 ERA in 29 innings, and this guy who has a 3.47 ERA in 83 innings.  Otherwise their pitching sucks.  So, what do we do?  We swing at the first pitch, for an easy grounder to the shortstop.  Maybe, take some pitches, and get this guy out of the game.

[brfrad]

Making another pitcher look like an All-American.  Just another day at the ballpark in regionals for this team.

[The Polish Rifle]

This is least enjoyable baseball game I've ever watched . Looking at our bench they seen to agree . Must be planning their summer vacation beginning tomorrow.

[brfrad]

That should do it.  I don't see us getting 5 baserunners on, let alone 5 runs this game.

[royalfan]

7 minutes ago, The Polish Rifle said:

This is least enjoyable baseball game I've ever watched . Looking at our bench they seen to agree . Must be planning their summer vacation beginning tomorrow.

Be plenty of time to hash it out waiting for flight home after watching holy freaking cross and Yale play more baseball.  Just a horrific job getting anyone that is any sort of threat to do anything.  Not good to have no power and no speed.  Recruit better athletes and teach them to play baseball better.  

[The Polish Rifle]

4 minutes ago, royalfan said:

Be plenty of time to hash it out waiting for flight home after watching holy freaking cross and Yale play more baseball.  Just a horrific job getting anyone that is any sort of threat to do anything.  Not good to have no power and no speed.  Recruit better athletes and teach them to play baseball better.  

Yep. Holy hell are we far away. Some how Yale has found guys that square up a ball better than us.

[brfrad]

2 minutes ago, royalfan said:

Be plenty of time to hash it out waiting for flight home after watching holy freaking cross and Yale play more baseball.  Just a horrific job getting anyone that is any sort of threat to do anything.  Not good to have no power and no speed.  Recruit better athletes and teach them to play baseball better.  

It's not about the players.  Our players are better than Yale's players.  We tighten up every time we are playing for something.  We had to thank our lucky stars that Purdue beat Minnesota, otherwise we would have had loss out on the Big 10 championship pissing a game down our legs.

[brfrad]

Well, now to top it off the home plate umpire is absolutely clueless about the rules, to cost us a lead-off baserunner. 

[royalfan]

Respectfully disagree.  I don't think we have much offensive talent.  Have to string way too much together to score it seems like to me.  We have better staff than Yale but it doesn't look like we have a better offense and may not be particularly close.  

[brfrad]

3 minutes ago, royalfan said:

Respectfully disagree.  I don't think we have much offensive talent.  Have to string way too much together to score it seems like to me.  We have better staff than Yale but it doesn't look like we have a better offense and may not be particularly close.  

We have talent, just an absolute atrocious approach to the plate.  Altavilla and Schreiber look like they have no honest to God clue how to have plate discipline.  Schreiber swings at 95% of 1st pitches.  (He swings and misses, rolls over a ground ball, or pops-up weakly)  Very seldom does he do damage on the first pitch. 

[brfrad]

Look at that again, a hit with 2 outs and nobody on. 

[The Polish Rifle]

We just don't do anything well offensively. We don't bunt, we don't steal bases , we don't hit homers. Basically just stand up there and pray the other team makes a mistakes.