ACC Tournament: Georgia Tech Baseball Catches Slice Of Coastal Title And #3 Seed
by Winfield Featherston on May 23, 2011 8:37 AM EDT
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PrintThe ACC Tournament brackets was announced yesterday and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets snagged the overall #3 seed in the round-robin format. The Virginia Cavaliers, who won the Coastal tiebreaker took the #1 seed, while Florida State, the Atlantic Division Champions took the #2 seed. Other teams that made it into the tournament include North Carolina, Miami, Clemson, NC State, and Wake Forest.
Because the ACC Tournament is a roud-robin of two divisions, the schedule has already been set. Georgia Tech plays the following schedule next week in Durham, NC.
Wednesday 11AM vs. Clemson
Thursday 7PM vs. NC State
Friday 3PM vs. Florida State
Sunday 1PM ACC Championship
Conference tournaments for baseball are tough to organize and schedule, and frankly there is really no right answer. Single-elimination tournaments aren't good for baseball and double elimination is too many games over a weekend (I guess). But this round-robin format sets teams up to play wasted games that just don't matter either. However, these games could mean small-somethings for the Jackets as they need to continue on the winning track to solidify a National Top Seed. According to Boyd's World Pseudo RPI Rankings, Georgia Tech sits at #7. Consistent showings this week can give us a top seed and grab homefield advantage in both the Regional and Super Regional rounds of the NCAA Tournament.
Go Jackets!
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I'm a fan of double elimination
Which in a way, Round Robin essentially becomes by the end of it. I honestly don’t have an issue with either format.
As for our schedule, Clemson and FSU present a fairly strong hurdle considering our tendency to lose leads in the post season. Granted, this is a much different team than those in the past, but it’s filled with a ton of freshmen which means one of two things could happen. Either they get the jitters being in the college post season for the first time, or they are fearless because they don’t know any better. I’m going to hope for the second scenario and maybe we’ll have us a nice little run before heading into the NCAA tourney.
Plus, UVA went out all wrong in my opinion. I haven’t looked at the box scores to see if they were resting starters or not, but getting swept by UNC before the conference tournament is not the way a #1 team should handle things.
I know I’ve harped on it all year, but just think about this. This team that we thought might be a transition year, with 17 freshmen on the roster, was one win over UVA from winning the Coastal Division and so far is one game better than last year’s team. That is awesome and is just another amazing item in Hall’s career here at GT.
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What does Wed loss to Clemmins mean
Tourney and NCAA’s?
by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on May 26, 2011 11:10 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Still a shot
We would have to blow out NC State and beat FSU because NC State clobbered FSU. We can only hope to make it to the championship game by tying Clemson 2-1 in the standings and winning a tie breaker by run differential. We were on the bubble for a super regional so this does not help, a regional bid should be locked up though.
by millsGT49 on May 26, 2011 11:30 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
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