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They won it by that score as they had a pitcher have a career day. ---------------------------------------- Nebraska is leading UCLA 5-0 in the 6th inning in the Big Ten Championship. Huskers 31-27 leading 42-15 UCLA. The earlier win over the Ducks 42-14 shows Nebraska can get their s** together when it counts apparently.

If Liberty's coach is going to do this crap, then Lombardi needs to return it in kind. Call for a balk review when ever any new Oregon batter comes up, etc. etc.

Early Saturday afternoon RPI estimate from Warren Nolan's web page: No. 18 - Oregon opponents: 6 - Oregon St 11 - UCLA 44 - USC 58 - Nebraska 67 - Rhode Island 72 - Michigan 73 - Columbia 77 - Iowa 78 - fuskies 79 - St. Mary's 85 - Rutgers 106 - Minnesota 108 - Grand Canyon 125 - Maryland 136 - Toledo 141 - Michigan St 179 - U Portland 230 - Ohio St 250 - Utah Tech 269 - Georgetown Ducks dropped from No. 12 to No. 18 in his estimate after Saturday morning loss. Oregon Ducks RPI Team Sheet 2025 Baseball | WarrenNolan.com WWW.WARRENNOLAN.COM The 2025 NCAA Baseball Tournament Selection Committee Team Sheet for Oregon Ducks with RPI, Strength of Schedule, Quadrant Records, and Every Game Result Ordered by RPI Still plenty of baseball conference tournaments in progress.

Real-Time RPI according to this guy this morning post-game: No. 18 RPI (Live) 2025 College Baseball | WarrenNolan.com WWW.WARRENNOLAN.COM 2025 College Baseball RPI (Rating Percentage Index) Updated in REAL-TIME for Every Team at the Completion of Every Game.

Hope you are right Charles. But, if Penn State knocks off Nebraska this evening, the last memory of Oregon may not be good in the Committee's eyes. If they can give Oregon State and UCLA two Western regionals, not sure they will feel compelled to give one to the Ducks. Thank goodness they notched a win over Michigan State. Hope the Committee takes the circumstances of the B1G scheduling snafu into account.

I concur. I doubt UCLA will be in line for a Super Regional. The Ducks had a shot. The Big Ten blew it...maybe not only for a Super but a regional in Eugene as well. The Big Admin should be ashamed. They should never have put their No. 1 seed in that scheduling position. And, I would feel the same way if the 1 seed had been Michigan, Iowa or whichever. It wasn't Friday night rain, or 7:00 am start for excuses... it was the B1G screwing up.

5:57 am sunrise local 9:00 am game time local (7:00 am Pacific Time) Well, at least there is time to milk the cows and feed the hogs and still make it to the baseball game. I know, you can't predict rain. But, scheduling so your No. 1 seed isn't playing until Thursday/Friday is B.S. to begin with. They need to ditch the pods/pools and get it back to 1 vs 12, 2 vs 11, etc. with game times during the week that benefit your seeds 1-4.

"...advocate for a restructured college season that starts and ends a month later than its current February-to-June regimen. An opening weekend in March and a CWS built around the MLB All-Star break in July ..." Not sure how that would work? Seniors playing that late? Underclassmen who would normally be in semi-pro summer leagues starting early June? It would impact all college teams playing late June and not just a few that currently qualify to go to Omaha the third week of June.

Omaha weather cams. yes, it is raining as we approach 7:00 pm local. Saturday's semi-final is scheduled for 2:00 pm local. Weather Cams WWW.3NEWSNOW.COM

The semi-finals will be: 2-0 Penn St vs 2-0 Oregon or Nebraska 2-0 UCLA vs 1-1 Iowa

Read an interesting piece today about the potential impact for Miami (Cristobal). If there are limited opportunities for ACC participants (after Clemson, Florida State) and if the ACC champ is no longer guaranteed a first round bye that might put Miami on the road if they do qualify...

"I'm going to emphasize to our guys that we will play hard, and we will play to win...you've got to respect the game and try to win." – Coach Rick Heller prior to Iowa's pool play finale against Indiana. Based on the Pod, Iowa has already locked up a semi-final regardless of outcome. Seventh inning update in front of a nearly empty stadium: Indiana 5, Iowa 0

As someone said, when the Pope was from Argentina - no first round bye. Now that the Pope is from the USA, ....

Oregon is currently playing its first game of the Big Tournament vs Michigan St. And, its second game on Friday will be vs Nebraska. Due to the combos of W-L, and how the games were scheduled, we already know 3 semi-finalist teams for Saturday games. Penn State will face Oregon/Nebraska UCLA will face Iowa.

The Top Four seeds in 2024 were 1- Oregon 2- Georgia 3- Texas 4- Penn State The first-round byes went to: 1- Oregon 2- Georgia 9- Boise St 11- Arizona State Texas became the 5-seed Penn State became the 6-seed

ESPN, Heather Dinich Twitter The 12-team College Football Playoff will move to a straight seeding model this fall, rewarding the selection committee’s top four teams with the top four seeds and a first-round bye, multiple sources told ESPN. The 10 FBS commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua, who comprise the CFP’s management committee, reached the unanimous agreement necessary to make the change during a call on Thursday afternoon. This means Notre Dame will now no longer be excluded from a first-round bye if they have a top four seed. The byes were granted to conference champions only.

This 3-team 4-Pod thing is interesting. There is a Pod with (3 seed) Iowa, Indiana and Rutgers, for example. Iowa is 1-0 after playing May 21. The other 2 teams are 1-1 Rutgers 0-1 Indiana Because the best Rutgers and Indiana can be is 1-1, and the worst Iowa could be is 1-1, the 3-seed Hawkeyes already know they will play May 24 in the semi-final. Iowa plays Indiana tonight May 22, but the outcome makes absolutely no difference in progressing to May 24. They could start the ball boy on the mound, and it wouldn't matter. They already know they will play UCLA because UCLA is 2-0 after two early games, the second one completed early this morning. (Oregon's first game is this evening) I don't know the better approach, but this just seems weird to me in terms of "competition." Play more games in a single day? Play games at two sites instead of one? Seems counter to seeding? Maybe I'm just making it too complicated?

While the Ducks have played 3 straight days on weekends, so have their opponents. With time off like Nebraska and Penn State would have, both can rest starters and relievers. But, my real point was the seeming unfairness to higher seeds in the Pods. Just like the CFP. What if No. 1 seed Oregon had Nebraska's schedule (with rest) instead?

Add another crazy thing about the seeding... Remember, we said since Nebraska played on Tuesday, they will have time off until Friday before facing the Ducks, while the Ducks play on Thursday. Well, for the moment, assume Oregon beats Nebraska and wins Pod A. The Ducks would then play on Saturday after playing on Thursday and Friday. But, if Penn State beats USC on Thursday, they would be the Pod D winner with a day off before facing the Pod A winner on Saturday. So, you could have the No. 1 seed Oregon playing two teams coming off rest on Friday and Saturday while the Ducks would have played 3 consecutive days.

Another close 3-2 win today for Northwestern over Stanford, just like Tuesday's semi-final with Oregon. Came down to the last pairing. And, the same Northwestern golfer who won it on Tuesday was the closer for Northwestern today. Northwestern was fifth in the Big Ten Tournament when the Oregon women won in April.

USC is trying to get the ND game scheduled early in the year rather than at the end. I can kinda see their point. IF this is their future: 9 - Big Ten games 1 - SEC opponent in a Big/SEC agreement 1 - Notre Dame 1 - open date SC has never scheduled an FCS opponent, and there will be a portion of their fan base who will want either Cal or Stanford every year on that "open date." That could mean, that other than the annual SEC matchup, the season would be locked in and no other intersectional opponents from the Big12 or ACC would be possible. No Arizona, ASU, Utah, San Diego St, etc if Notre Dame/Cal/Stanford were locked in. I can see their "worry" about renewing a long-term contract with ND until there is clarity on the SEC/Big challenge agreement.

A month ago, Oregon won the Big Ten Tournament and Northwestern was fifth. The Ducks best golfer Kiara Romero struggled a bit in this tournament. Not sure why. She was Big Ten golfer of the year, and low medalist in that tournament. But, she did not have her "A game" this weekend.

You are correct. If the three teams in the pod are tied 1-1, the highest seed advances. Pool A 4:00 pm PT – Tues – Nebraska beat Michigan St (5-4) 4:00 pm – Thurs – Oregon vs Michigan St 4:00 pm – Fri – Oregon vs Nebraska Noon – Sat - Pool A winner vs Pool D winner The Ducks must now definitely beat Nebraska, otherwise the Huskers become 2-0. Theoretically, the Ducks could use their No. 2 pitcher vs Michigan State, and hold their No. 1 pitcher for Nebraska. Especially since the Nebraska pitching staff will have an almost 72 hour rest. But, using No. 1 on Friday means he isn't available at Noon on Saturday. This scheduling seems almost as screwed up as the CFP approach of having 1-4 seeds with the worst opportunity??

If some of those Capital One standings look weird it's because of the list of sports which are included (and, not included). https://ecm.capitalone.com/WCM/capital-one-cup/cup-scoring-structure/coc-scoring-structure---sheet1.pdf Obviously many schools don't have teams in some of those sports, while others with broad sports offerings like Stanford, Ohio State, Texas do well in the rankings each year.