Remember when NCSU fans were livid that they got snubbed from a post-season invitation to the tournament? One of their chief objections was that Ole Miss got in with a lower RPI than NCSU. Who goes on to win it all? Ole Miss, of course. Ouch!
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The most important point is that as in basketball, baseball has so many crappy conferences getting auto bids that most years a few teams from Major conferences who deserve the bid get shut out. It even happens in lacrosse.Remember when NCSU fans were livid that they got snubbed from a post-season invitation to the tournament? One of their chief objections was that Ole Miss got in with a lower RPI than NCSU. Who goes on to win it all? Ole Miss, of course. Ouch!
Simple solution. Be a better team and stay off the bubble.The most important point is that as in basketball, baseball has so many crappy conferences getting auto bids that most years a few teams from Major conferences who deserve the bid get shut out. It even happens in lacrosse.
If just 1 more crappy league had a halfway decent regular season champ who lost the league tourney, with both reg season and tourney champs getting in, then Ole Miss would have been sitting home.
My daughter will be attending Ole Miss in the fall as a Freshman and when we went to watch UNC in Charlotte on Friday we were talking about how Ole Miss probably wasn’t going to make it into tournament… I was watching the selection show while cleaning up our basement and was in utter amazement when I heard the Rebels announced, then realized during the interview with the selection chair that it came down pretty much to Ole Miss and NCST all I could do was laugh!!! 😂 😂😂Remember when NCSU fans were livid that they got snubbed from a post-season invitation to the tournament? One of their chief objections was that Ole Miss got in with a lower RPI than NCSU. Who goes on to win it all? Ole Miss, of course. Ouch!