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****Official 2019 Super Regionals (Sweet 16) & College World Series Thread (SEC/ACC Dominating)****

Michigan is rolling!

They are the home team & lead 7-3 in the bottom of the 6th.

@WestIAHawk you lazy and cheap bastard, are you in the stadium watching the Wolverines?

;)
Just got sat down for tonight's game..

Wow what a mess down here....I dont remember it being this crowded. Parked in Bellevue had to walk to downtown Omaha..lol
Somebody sure screwed up parking here...that's for sure.

Was here just a short 2 years ago was nice...
 
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Just got sat down for tonight's game..

Wow what a mess down here....I dont remember it being this crowded. Parked in Bellevue had to walk to downtown Omaha..lol
Somebody sure screwed up parking here...that's for sure.

Was here just a short 2 years ago was nice...
Walking is good for you, you lazy bastard!

;)
 
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Michigan vs Vanderbilt for all the marbles beginning Monday.

Vandy is home team for games #1 and #3, Michigan for game #2
 
2019 College World Series Schedule, Bracket & Results
* June 15-26, 2019
* TD Ameritrade Park, Omaha, NE


* DOUBLE ELIMINATION IN BRACKET PLAY
* THEN BEST OF 3 CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES

BEST OF 3 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES


Games 13, 14 and 15 (if needed)

Michigan (49-20) (Bracket 1 Winner)

..................vs..................

#2 Vanderbilt (57-11) (Bracket 2 Winner)



RESULTS/SCHEDULE:

Mon June 24, 2019 (Game 13)
Michigan vs #2 Vanderbilt, 6 pm CT, ESPN

Tues June 25, 2019 (Game 14)
#2 Vanderbilt vs Michigan, 6 pm CT, ESPN

Wed June 26, 2019 (Game 15, IF NECESSARY)
Michigan vs #2 Vanderbilt, 6 pm CT, ESPN



BRACKET ONE RESULTS (Double Elimination):

Bracket Records:
3-0 Michigan (49-20)--ADVANCES TO CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES

2-2 #8 Texas Tech (46-20) ELIMINATED
1-2 Florida State (42-23) ELIMINATED
0-2 #5 Arkansas (46-20) ELIMINATED



RESULTS/SCHEDULE:

Fri June 21, 2019 (Game 11)
Michigan 15, #8 Texas Tech 3 (2 LOSSES; ELIMINATED)


Wed June 19, 2019
#8 Texas Tech 4, Florida State 1 (2 LOSSES; ELIMINATED)


Mon June 17, 2019
#8 Texas Tech 5, #5 Arkansas 4 (2 LOSSES; ELIMINATED)
Michigan 2, Florida State 0


Sat June 15, 2019
Michigan 5, Texas Tech 3
Florida State 1, Arkansas 0


Rankings are from D1baseball.com
#5 Arkansas (46-20)
#8 Texas Tech (46-20)

Michigan (49-20)...beat #22 Creighton & #1 UCLA to get to CWS
Florida St. (42-23)...beat #7 Georgia & #12 LSU to get to CWS


BRACKET TWO RESULTS (Double Elimination):


Bracket Records:
3-0 #2 Vanderbilt (57-11)--ADVANCES TO CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES

2-2 #11 Louisville (51-18) ELIMINATED
1-2 #3 Mississippi State (52-15) ELIMINATED
0-2 Auburn (38-28) ELIMINATED



RESULTS/SCHEDULE:


Fri June 21, 2019 (Game 12)
#2 Vanderbilt 3, #11 Louisville 2 (2 LOSSES; ELIMINATED)


Thur June 20, 2019
#11 Louisville 4, #3 Mississippi State 3 (2 LOSSES; ELIMINATED)


Wed June 19, 2019

#11 Louisville 5, Auburn 3 (2 LOSSES; ELIMINATED)
#2 Vanderbilt 6, #3 Mississippi State 3


Tues June 18, 2019

RAIN OUT--Games rescheduled to Wed, June 19


Sun June 16, 2019
#2 Vanderbilt 3, #11 Louisville 1
#3 Mississippi State 5, Auburn 4


Rankings are from D1baseball.com
#2 Vanderbilt (57-11)

#3 Mississippi St. (52-15)...beat #4 Stanford to get to CWS

#11 Louisville (51-18)...beat Unranked Illinois St & #10 East Carolina to get to CWS
Auburn (38-28)...beat #6 Georgia Tech & #15 North Carolina to get to CWS


*****************************************************


LINK TO CWS SCHEDULE:
https://www.ncaa.com/news/baseball/article/college-world-series-schedule

LINK TO THE 2019 D1 BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP OFFICIAL BRACKET: https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/baseball/d1/2019

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The 8 CWS Teams, by Conference:
* SEC (4)
* ACC (2)
* B1G (1)
* Big 12 (1)


*****************************************************


There you go, @WestIAHawk , you lazy bastard!

;)
 
Rocker vs Henry on Monday?
Probably. Vanderbilt has 2 huge advantages when it comes to pitching.

1) They are setup to run out their regular rotation. Just like a normal weekend. While Michigan has ridden their 3 frontline arms to get to the championship, it has come at the price of not having Kauffman for at least 1 (most likely 2) games.

2) The Commodores are significantly deeper at the position than the Woverines. In addition to Rocker, Fellows and Raby, Mason Hickman, their midweek starter, is undefeated on the season and has given them some quality innings over the last week. That's in addition to Fisher, Eder and Smith who can bridge to Brown.
Brown is a light's out closer. #2 in the nation in saves. Watching his slider in person gives you a much better appreciation for it's depth than anything you can see on tv. If Michigan does find a way on base, they are going to have use their tremendous speed to get runners into scoring position....straight steal, hit and run, etc.

Michigan's pitcher's have been near perfect so far in the tournament. They are going to have to be again if they are to have a chance.

Bleday, Martin, Scott and DeMarco all have the power to go yard or find the gaps. Vandy is the 6th best hitting team in the nation. Right now they are the equivalent of a AA team.

It will be interesting to see how things play out.
 
Some good reading before the start of the best of 3 championship series:


Michigan coach helped build Vandy program he’s out to beat
By ERIC OLSON
58 minutes ago / June 23, 2019

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Vanderbilt coach Tim Corbin gets right to the point when he discusses his protege, Erik Bakich.

He’s proud of him. He’s impressed with what he has accomplished at Michigan. He’s his biggest fan.

Now he wants to beat him.

Corbin’s Commodores and Bakich’s Wolverines have never played each other. That changes Monday night when they open the best-of-three College World Series finals at TD Ameritrade Park.

“I’m not uncomfortable with it,” Corbin said. “If you’re going to play someone you really care about and like, this is the best place you could possibly do it. It’s two groups of teams playing each other, more than anything else. I’m happy for what he and his wife and his staff and that university have done to put themselves in a position to play for a national championship.”

The 41-year-old Bakich has become the hottest coach in the college game for taking the Wolverines to the CWS for the first time since 1984. They’re playing for their first national title since 1962.

Bakich said the seven years he spent at Vanderbilt (2003-09) as an assistant to Corbin shaped him as a coach, leader and man.

“I learned everything from him,” Bakich said.

Vanderbilt (57-11) and Michigan (49-20) each went 3-0 in bracket play at the CWS but otherwise have had very different seasons.

The Commodores lost two games in a row on just two occasions, most recently in early April, and swept the Southeastern Conference regular-season and tournament titles. That consistency earned them the No. 2 national seed in the NCAA Tournament.

The Wolverines slumped at the end of the regular season. They were one of the last four teams to receive NCAA at-large bids, and they survived meltdowns in regionals and super regionals to stave off elimination.

“It may have taken them 20, 30, 40 games, but they are finding their personality and are playing extremely well,” Corbin said. “To go through the month of games and travel and what they’ve accomplished over the course of time has been nothing short of tremendous.”

Bakich’s first head coaching job was at Maryland, and he left for Michigan in 2013 to take on the challenge of elevating a northern program that, except for one four-year stretch, hadn’t had sustained success on the national level since the 1980s.

“We have these indoor facilities, but we don’t like to use them very often,” Bakich said. “If it’s above zero degrees, we are outside. It might only be for 20 or 30 minutes, but it’s just a mindset thing. We’re going outside. And our players know it, and our recruits know it, and we don’t shy away from it. Yeah, it’s cold here, but it’s not going to keep us from getting better.”

The California-born Bakich played third base for East Carolina in 1999 and 2000 after transferring from San Jose City College. He stayed at East Carolina in 2001 as an assistant strength coach and went to Clemson in 2002 as a volunteer assistant under Jack Leggett.

Leggett’s two full-time assistants were Kevin O’Sullivan and Corbin. O’Sullivan went on to build one of the most powerful programs in the country at Florida and won the national title in 2017. Corbin has turned around Vandy’s struggling program, winning the 2014 title and returning to the CWS finals in 2015.

“I don’t know if there is a better way to sum up being in the right place at the right time, or if the phrase of surrounding yourself with good people has ever rung more true than it did when I met those guys,” Bakich said. “It was an instant connection. I didn’t know it maybe that day, but I met three of my closest friends and three guys I considered mentors in this game.”

Corbin, 57, said it was a no-brainer to take Bakich with him when Vanderbilt offered him the job in the fall of 2002. The Commodores were coming off five straight losing seasons and hadn’t been to the NCAA Tournament since 1980.

“He has a high care level for what he’s doing,” Corbin said. “He doesn’t punch a clock. He’s trying to be the best at what he’s going to be. The young Erik Bakich is no different than the Erik Bakich you see today. The thing that’s different is in the experience, the growth that’s taken place. His passion for what he’s doing has never changed.”

Bakich was hitting coach, worked with the outfielders and served as recruiting coordinator at Vanderbilt. He was responsible for landing David Price, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2007 Major League Baseball draft and the 2012 Cy Young Award winner. Each of his seven recruiting classes ranked in the top 25, including the No. 1 class in 2005.

Those classes set into motion Vandy’s NCAA Tournament streak of 14 straight appearances.

“Vanderbilt is not Vanderbilt without Erik Bakich,” Corbin said.


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Michigan coach Erik Bakich and Vanderbilt coach Tim Corbin share a laugh during a news conference Sunday, June 23, 2019, in Omaha, Neb. When Michigan (49-20) opens the best-of-three CWS finals against No. 2 national seed Vanderbilt (57-11) on Monday night, it will be playing its ninth game at TD Ameritrade in 34 days. (Z Long/Omaha World-Herald via AP)
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Full AP CWS coverage: https://apnews.com/CollegeWorldSeries
 
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Interesting stat:

Since the NCAA adopted the current postseason tournament format (regionals / super-regionals / CWS) in 1999, 168 teams have reached Omaha. All but six of those 168 teams have hailed from either the South or the West Coast, or had ties to a major conference based mostly in warmer climates. The six and their finish are:

Notre Dame (2002, 1-2)
Missouri State (2003, 0-2)
Stony Brook (2012, 0-2)
Kent State (2012, 1-2)
Indiana (2013, 1-2)
Michigan (2019, 3-0, national finals, TBD)
 
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Interesting stat:

Since the NCAA adopted the current postseason tournament format (regionals / super-regionals / CWS) in 1999, 168 teams have reached Omaha. All but six of those 168 teams have hailed from either the South or the West Coast, or had ties to a major conference based mostly in warmer climates. The six and their finish are:

Notre Dame (2002, 1-2)
Missouri State (2003, 0-2)
Stony Brook (2012, 0-2)
Kent State (2012, 1-2)
Indiana (2013, 1-2)
Michigan (2019, 3-0, national finals, TBD)
Wow.

What are the arguments against starting the season a month (or more?) later? Has the SEC, ACC & PAC 12 (and/or Big 12) blocked all attempts to do so?
 
Wow.

What are the arguments against starting the season a month (or more?) later? Has the SEC, ACC & PAC 12 (and/or Big 12) blocked all attempts to do so?
In another thread a vote was discussed about such a move, wasn't it? And Delaney voted against moving the season later.
 
In another thread a vote was discussed about such a move, wasn't it? And Delaney voted against moving the season later.
not sure on the history of this issue, the B1G's stance, why they hold that stance, etc.

that surprises me, however, that Delany would not want to start the season a month later so that the conditions are more favorable to open the season for the northern schools

I would imagine the ACC, SEC, Big 12 and PAC 12 are all fine with the way things are since they are the conferences most likely to be highly represented in the CWS
 
2019 College World Series Schedule, Bracket & Results
* June 15-26, 2019
* TD Ameritrade Park, Omaha, NE


* DOUBLE ELIMINATION IN BRACKET PLAY
* THEN BEST OF 3 CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES

BEST OF 3 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES


Games 13, 14 and 15 (if needed)

Michigan Leads Best of 3 National Championship series 1-0.

Michigan (50-20)
(Bracket 1 Winner)

..................vs..................

#2 Vanderbilt (57-12) (Bracket 2 Winner)



RESULTS/SCHEDULE:

Mon June 24, 2019 (Game 13)
Michigan 7, #2 Vanderbilt 4

Tues June 25, 2019 (Game 14)
#2 Vanderbilt vs Michigan, 6 pm CT, ESPN

Wed June 26, 2019 (Game 15, IF NECESSARY)
Michigan vs #2 Vanderbilt, 6 pm CT, ESPN



BRACKET ONE RESULTS (Double Elimination):

Bracket Records:
3-0 Michigan (49-20)--ADVANCES TO CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES

2-2 #8 Texas Tech (46-20) ELIMINATED
1-2 Florida State (42-23) ELIMINATED
0-2 #5 Arkansas (46-20) ELIMINATED



RESULTS/SCHEDULE:

Fri June 21, 2019 (Game 11)
Michigan 15, #8 Texas Tech 3 (2 LOSSES; ELIMINATED)


Wed June 19, 2019
#8 Texas Tech 4, Florida State 1 (2 LOSSES; ELIMINATED)


Mon June 17, 2019
#8 Texas Tech 5, #5 Arkansas 4 (2 LOSSES; ELIMINATED)
Michigan 2, Florida State 0


Sat June 15, 2019
Michigan 5, Texas Tech 3
Florida State 1, Arkansas 0


Rankings are from D1baseball.com
#5 Arkansas (46-20)
#8 Texas Tech (46-20)

Michigan (49-20)...beat #22 Creighton & #1 UCLA to get to CWS
Florida St. (42-23)...beat #7 Georgia & #12 LSU to get to CWS


BRACKET TWO RESULTS (Double Elimination):


Bracket Records:
3-0 #2 Vanderbilt (57-11)--ADVANCES TO CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES

2-2 #11 Louisville (51-18) ELIMINATED
1-2 #3 Mississippi State (52-15) ELIMINATED
0-2 Auburn (38-28) ELIMINATED



RESULTS/SCHEDULE:


Fri June 21, 2019 (Game 12)
#2 Vanderbilt 3, #11 Louisville 2 (2 LOSSES; ELIMINATED)


Thur June 20, 2019
#11 Louisville 4, #3 Mississippi State 3 (2 LOSSES; ELIMINATED)


Wed June 19, 2019

#11 Louisville 5, Auburn 3 (2 LOSSES; ELIMINATED)
#2 Vanderbilt 6, #3 Mississippi State 3


Tues June 18, 2019

RAIN OUT--Games rescheduled to Wed, June 19


Sun June 16, 2019
#2 Vanderbilt 3, #11 Louisville 1
#3 Mississippi State 5, Auburn 4


Rankings are from D1baseball.com
#2 Vanderbilt (57-11)

#3 Mississippi St. (52-15)...beat #4 Stanford to get to CWS

#11 Louisville (51-18)...beat Unranked Illinois St & #10 East Carolina to get to CWS
Auburn (38-28)...beat #6 Georgia Tech & #15 North Carolina to get to CWS


*****************************************************


LINK TO CWS SCHEDULE:
https://www.ncaa.com/news/baseball/article/college-world-series-schedule

LINK TO THE 2019 D1 BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP OFFICIAL BRACKET: https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/baseball/d1/2019

*****************************************************


The 8 CWS Teams, by Conference:
* SEC (4)
* ACC (2)
* B1G (1)
* Big 12 (1)


*****************************************************


There you go, @WestIAHawk , you lazy bastard!

;)
 
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College World Series: Michigan baseball has pieces in place for winner-take-all Game 3

ANTHONY FENECH | DETROIT FREE PRESS | 3 hours ago

OMAHA, Nebraska — It had to end this way, with another Game 3, this time on college baseball’s biggest stage, with the national championship at stake.

After beating Creighton in the regional in three games and then UCLA in the Super Regionals in three games, Michigan baseball will now have to beat Vanderbilt in three games to win the school’s first national title since 1962.

“I think it only seems fitting that our team would go to three games,” head coach Erik Bakich said. “That’s just kind of been our M.O. here in all these rounds. Just feels like we’re very comfortable in that spot."

And after missing their first swing at history on Tuesday night – Vanderbilt freshman right-hander Kumar Rocker proved too tough of a task, dominating the Wolverines in a 4-1 win to even the best-of-three series – Bakich sensed that same comfort in addressing his team in the home dugout at TD Ameritrade Park.

More from Windsor: U-M remains loose before winner-take-all College World Series finale

“Just sensed a calmness of our team,” Bakich said. “They’re excited to play tomorrow.”

Rocker was outstanding, allowing one run on three hits over 6⅓ innings, U-M’s mix-and-match pitching plan was solid but not strong enough, their offense could not get the lead they needed to call on sophomore right-hander Jeff Criswell, and most simply, they did not play good enough baseball to dispatch the vaunted Commodores in two games.

The loss wasn’t unexpected. Without any of their top pitching options – lefty Tommy Henry threw 8⅓ innings the night before, righty Karl Kauffmann was penciled in for a winner-take-all Game 3 and Criswell was needed in the late innings – the Wolverines were required to do what no team this postseason has done, in beating Rocker.

They couldn’t, and now will turn their focus to Wednesday, with Kauffmann starting and Criswell ready to piggy-back him.

More: Jordan Nwogu leaves College World Series game with leg injury

“Super excited,” Kauffmann said. “To get a shot to win a national championship, to put your name out there and help your team do it, everyone’s going to sign their name right there. Incredible opportunity, it’s everything I came to Michigan for, dreamed of, so to get that opportunity. … I wish we were playing right now.”

After Criswell threw nine pitches to record the final two outs of Monday night’s win, it was anticipated he would start Game 2. But at a team dinner after the win, Isaiah Paige’s teammates put the idea in his mind that he would be the guy, and Paige found out he was the guy when Bakich pulled him aside Tuesday morning and asked which uniforms he wanted to wear.

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Paige, the redshirt freshman, gave Bakich what he had hoped for, pitching into the fifth inning. He allowed one run one three hits, with a season-high five strikeouts.

It was nuts,” Paige said.

Paige’s night ended after allowing a lead-off single in the top of the fifth inning, followed by shortstop Jack Blomgren whiffing on a double play ball up the middle. He was relieved by lefty Ben Keizer, who did some serious damage control, allowing only one run by pitching out of a bases loaded jam.

But Vanderbilt would extend their lead to 3-0 after a pair of spiked breaking balls from righty Jack Weisenburger in the top of the sixth got past catcher Joe Donovan, each scoring runs.

U-M would allow another on a solo home run to Philip Clarke in the seventh inning. The four-run deficit against Rocker was entirely too much, though the Wolverines – both offensively and on the pitcher’s mound – did compete.

“I thought our guys that we pieced this game together with did a good job,” Bakich said. “No issues with them.”

Neither did he have an issue with the team’s loss, or their demeanor afterwards.

U-M has faced similar situations, dating back to the Big Ten tournament, when they cemented their NCAA tournament status with a walk-off win over Illinois. They played Nebraska at this very same stadium in front of a partial crowd. And then, they survived a pair of elimination games – one against the No. 1 team in the country at their own yard.

“We’ve been through so much this season,” first baseman Jimmy Kerr said. “We’ve done too much and put in too much hard work to worry about that game and worry about dropping that game to Vandy. We got our dudes back tomorrow and we’ll be ready to go.”

Flashback to Game 1: Jimmy Kerr, after rare words from champ grandpa, flexes muscle

Bakich said the team decided to start Paige in order to keep Criswell available for a situation to protect a potential lead in the middle-to-late innings. That lead, though, never came – against Rocker, who struck out 11 batters, it was unlikely – so Criswell will be afforded an extra day of rest.

“At the end of the day, it just kind of got to a point where we said, ‘This really is a no-brainer. We need Jeff at the back-end of the game,’” Bakich said.

And at the end of this game, he saw all he needed to see from his team, to know that they were not fazed by the loss. Team 153, of course, remains just as close to a national championship as they were a night ago – one win away.

“I just read their faces in the dugout and they were smiling,” Bakich said. “This is a bounce-back team. We’ve had so many bouts of adversity where we’ve been knocked down.”

Said Kerr: “This team has done a great job of looking at the positives of everything. We’ve just focused on the word ‘good’ all year. Good we get to play another day of baseball with each other and good that we get another chance to win a national championship.”
 
not sure on the history of this issue, the B1G's stance, why they hold that stance, etc.

that surprises me, however, that Delany would not want to start the season a month later so that the conditions are more favorable to open the season for the northern schools
I said in the other thread and I believe that it all comes down to following the money.
 
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