Seven SEC baseball teams made the tournament and all seven hosted a 4 team regional. Although Vandy and Ole Miss got embarrassed at home, and lost 2 straight in the regionals - then watched 3 other teams play on their field to determine the winner - the other five SEC teams managed to win their respective host regionals. Because of the way the brackets worked out, and how the other regional winners were seeded - all five of those schools were able to host a super regional (Florida, TAMU, Miss. State, LSU, and South Carolina). I'm not 100% sure, but it's probably the first time a conference hosted 5 out of 8 super regional sites.

Then the real embarrassment happened. Miss. State lost two straight at home to Arizona. LSU lost two straight at home to Coastal Carolina. SC lost two straight at home to OK State. And TAMU lost 2 out of 3 to TCU.

If UF loses tonight, it will be a home loss sweep for the SEC hosted regionals. Even if UF wins and advances (they are the number 1 overall seed anyway), it has definitely been a poor showing to say the least. Not what you expect from a conference that has dominated baseball the last couple of decades - and had high expectations.

They have had a bad showing for sure. Some exciting games have been played. I wish they would seed the field for super regionals.

It is (was) embarrassing! The SEC has always had "THE COACH". Skip Bergman, Ron Polk, Ray Tanner, etc. Who would you call THAT coach now?? I personally can't think of one. The Florida guy does well but isn't mentioned with that group yet. Tim Corbin, he's good, probably the best in the SEC. Maybe Alabama will hire that guy. Hopefully this was just a fluke and the SEC will turn it around next year. Now, on to football.

Yeah it was definitely a flop for the SEC in the supers. Especially bad for MSU.

Dr. B

Perhaps it was just bad matchups for the SEC?

UF, TAMU, and MS State have a roster capable of a title. You got to beat everybody at some point - for the most part. It shouldn't be match ups at this stage.

LSU lost to Coastal Carolina. LSU doesn't lose at home, and have the best, most committed fans in college baseball. You think Coastal has players comparable to LSU?

Another note about the tournament - Louisville, a high seed, also lost at home to UC Santa Barbara. The Gauchos won Game 2 with a walk off grand slam in the bottom of the ninth, to win 4-3. Yes, it was 3-0 for most of the game, before the bottom of the ninth granny. The hitter was a bench player who had 26 total at bats all season! Louisville's closer was a high draft pick in the recent draft. Go to youtube and watch that footage!

I agree with you for the most part. I'm not making excuses at all, but Coastal Carolina has 30, 30!!!!, more home runs than the next closest opponent in NCAA. That's a staggering number. Those boys can hit and we all know what happens when you get a hot pitcher or two in a best of 3 series. It's disappointing to not see the SEC better represented at the CWS, but anything can happen in these short series.

I also agree with this.

In baseball , smaller schools don't have the talent gap with larger schools the way they do in football. Due to NCAA scholarship restrictions and practice and supervised training limits, a kid that has the tools to play mlb and just wants to develop, will many times go to juco or NAIA because he isn't hamstrung by all of the ncaa guidelines.

I understand the parody in the levels of college baseball. I'm just saying that LSU never lets that happen - well, until they actually let it happen. I also understand its a small sample when you play best two of three. At least they do that. MLB instituted the one game wild card playoff and effectively have the dumbest post season game in sports. After 162 games, let's play one game before the divisional series.

Player for player, you would still take LSU's roster, with no regard to statistics. Kids go there when they couldn't be persuaded to go anywhere else. If my family lived 3 miles from any other SEC school, and LSU had recruited me, I would have went there to play instead.

The best way to avoid post season embarrassment is to take the route my team took. Just avoid the post season. Again. But I think they are getting better.

My son played one year at Coastal Carolina and the rest at FSU. He said their coach, Gary Gilmore was phenomonal and always said that if he went to a well known D-l college, he would probably do an outstanding job.

This^^^

I don't think Vandy has anything to be embarrassed about. Their situation was different. The game was just "a game" at the time.

Dang if UF didn't just lose their first game to Coastal. You don't lose the first one and come back, for the most part. #1 seed is more than likely toast.

I'm gonna pull for Coastal to win the whole thing. Would make for a great story. Gonna be tough though.

Since they knocked my Tigers out last weekend, I'm pulling for them as well.

All 3 teams that were top 8 national seeds are in the losers' bracket after the first round of games.

Well, I thought UF had the team to win in Omaha, and help the SEC forget about all the other disappointment. But they decided to lose 2 straight and fly home to hit the beaches for the summer.

UF did have the team. The bats just got cold at the wrong time. I know it wasn't the pitching, but it's a hard pill to swallow that AJ Puck didn't see the mound in Omaha.

Still pulling for the Chanticleers.