Polls for the Week of May 20:
VU received four first place place votes out of thirty in the USA Today poll. UCLA got the other twenty-six.
NCBWA (National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association) doesn't release its weekly poll until late Monday. The CBI Composite Poll doesn't come out until Tuesday.
Baseball America: 2
Collegiate Baseball: 2
D1 Baseball: 2
NCBWA: 2
Perfect Game: 2
USA Today: 2
College Baseball Insider Composite Poll: 2
NCAA RPI: 2
May 20 Polls
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Re: May 20 Polls
North Carolina State moved into the regional host picture with a series win at North Carolina. LSU and Texas A&M had good weeks.
I still can't understand Stanford in the Top 10, let alone #3 or #4. Yes, the 39-10 record is impressive, but the S-O-S of #71 is not. Stanford is 7-5 in Quadrant 1 games, a barely winning record, but the key stat is that Stanford has only played 12 Quadrant 1 games. Compare that to Tennessee (33), LSU (33), Texas A&M (32), Georgia (32), Mississippi State (30), Arkansas (30), Louisville (30) -- all of those with winning records in Quadrant 1 games.
Had Stanford played 12 more Quadrant 1 games (and won 7 of them) to replace some of its Q2-Q4 games (likely 11-1 in those games), the Cardinal record would be 35-14. It would still have an RPI around #15 and would be ranked somewhere in that range. Stanford would probably host a region but not as a National Seed.
I still can't understand Stanford in the Top 10, let alone #3 or #4. Yes, the 39-10 record is impressive, but the S-O-S of #71 is not. Stanford is 7-5 in Quadrant 1 games, a barely winning record, but the key stat is that Stanford has only played 12 Quadrant 1 games. Compare that to Tennessee (33), LSU (33), Texas A&M (32), Georgia (32), Mississippi State (30), Arkansas (30), Louisville (30) -- all of those with winning records in Quadrant 1 games.
Had Stanford played 12 more Quadrant 1 games (and won 7 of them) to replace some of its Q2-Q4 games (likely 11-1 in those games), the Cardinal record would be 35-14. It would still have an RPI around #15 and would be ranked somewhere in that range. Stanford would probably host a region but not as a National Seed.