D1Baseball.com projects Iowa in the field of 64
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How much are the results of the mid-week games considered for making the tournament? In the sports I am more familiar with (football and basketball), it would be a big deal losing to teams of that caliber. They seemingly shouldn't receive equal weight since teams aren't using their top pitchers. I imagine some of the Top 10 teams are deep enough that that they can steamroll through those games. We have been winning most of those this year, but have had some nail-biters.
The non-D1 games do not count toward RPI, so for those purposes we are currently 14-9. Of course we've lost to SLU, Missouri State (both listed above) and yea those games against Western/Northern Illinois and Milwaukee certainly do "count" the same. But yea, both teams are often using young guys on the bump and rotate their lineup a bit, but that's baseball.
So here is the situation. As has been stated, games against non-D1 teams do not count for calculating RPI and overall record in the eyes of the NCAA when it comes to the tournament.
Iowa's schedule is turning out to be one of the toughest in recent years. Iowa has great opportunities vs Ohio State, @ Minnesota, vs Oklahoma State, @ Nebraska, and midweek @ Bradley. We obviously need to win more of those than we lose and avoid getting swept in any of them.
Iowa also has some RPI killing games at the end of the year. You can sweep a sub 200 team and drop in the RPI. You lose at home to teams with an RPI in the 200's and it can drop you 10-15 spots.
Iowa is walking a fine line this year, they have done what they needed to so far but much more work to be done. We've seen that past our top 2-3 in the bullpen it can be adventure especially if we don't get quality starts. We've also seen our offense do absolutely nothing for a period of time. Right now it would be HUGE to have even one or two more wins over the likes of UNLV, Missouri State, and SLU.
Time will tell, win more than we lose against the above and don't lose more than 1 or 2 to sub 200 RPI teams and I think we are in.
Iowa's schedule is turning out to be one of the toughest in recent years. Iowa has great opportunities vs Ohio State, @ Minnesota, vs Oklahoma State, @ Nebraska, and midweek @ Bradley. We obviously need to win more of those than we lose and avoid getting swept in any of them.
Iowa also has some RPI killing games at the end of the year. You can sweep a sub 200 team and drop in the RPI. You lose at home to teams with an RPI in the 200's and it can drop you 10-15 spots.
Iowa is walking a fine line this year, they have done what they needed to so far but much more work to be done. We've seen that past our top 2-3 in the bullpen it can be adventure especially if we don't get quality starts. We've also seen our offense do absolutely nothing for a period of time. Right now it would be HUGE to have even one or two more wins over the likes of UNLV, Missouri State, and SLU.
Time will tell, win more than we lose against the above and don't lose more than 1 or 2 to sub 200 RPI teams and I think we are in.
Iowa has put itself in a position where the rest of the season matters. After getting swept by UNLV and beat handily by Missouri State, it's a good spot to be in. Surviving the first two weeks of play by going 3-2 in games against Indiana and Illinois was really good. Illinois has some high-quality wins in non-conference that will keep their RPI pretty high all year even if they start to lose some. Rest of the season will be fun.
SOB!!!! 1-2 games hurt. Bad. Would rather lose by 15. Nice come back though. Spilt and looking to win the series.
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