Baseball Bracketology: Baseball America still has Michigan In
on what basis is Indiana a 2 seed? they are 6th place and 4 games behind us in the standings?
Indiana had quite a successful non-conference season. Also, when you have only 42% of your games in-conference, that's pretty different from most sports where about 2/3 of your games are in-conference. As a result, conference results can be pretty inconsistent with seeding.
Indiana took 2/3 from Pacific, 3/4 from San Diego (all on the road, of course), plus wins over Coastal Carolina and Louisville.
I hope that happens! I'll take a day off and a 2 hour road trip! Go Blue!!
The B10 baseball schedule is even more variable than hoops, if you can believe that. You only play 8 of the 13 other teams. M has played the bottom 3 teams and don't have much in terms of non-conference. Indiana has played 4 of the top 5 teams in the B10.
Purdue is a good opportunity to get some more solid wins.
According to what BA seems to think, the 3 games at Purdue starting tomorrow might be a play-in series, with the winner in the tournament and the loser staying home.
Of course, there's always the opportunity to win your way in during the conference tournament. It will be interesting to see if Michigan starts playing with the rotation a little; the best pitchers aren't necessarily the ones getting the earlier starts right now.
Yeah, D1Baseball seems to think Purdue-M is an elimination series of some sort (I'm not sure how it works with baseball if there's a 2-1 split).
It'd definitely behoove M to win the series.
Whether they end up making it this year or not, I'm still so impressed by the job Bakich has done with the program. Good days ahead.