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Thanks for the overview......

Does the Big 12 look stronger than usual this year, or is it just me????? 
Couldn't this affect placing in a super regional in our favor or not?

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husker-bounces at tssi.com wrote on 04/29/2005 03:54:27 PM:

> As one of the few, the proud, the willing to discuss
> baseball, I liked Jeff’s analysis, but last night’s game
> put the first nail in the coffin as far as the regular
> season Big 12 title.  NU needed to do more than win the
> series against OU and they have to win the next two games to
> do that.  Still left on the schedule are MU (2nd in the Big
> 12 standings), @ TT (6th but hits the ball well – 2nd in
> league) and KSU (8th).  So NU has 11 Big 12 games left and
> is currently 10-6.  They really need to sweep TT and KSU and
> go 2-1 vs MU along with winning the next two games to finish
> 20-7 to win the title - and even then they need some help.
> 
> Even though Texas has lost 2 in a row, I don’t see them
> losing more than 2 to MU, KU and TAMU which would mean Texas
> would have a record of 18-8, which would give NU a little
> space for losing another game.  But then there’s league
> leading Baylor who has TT, TAMU and MU left.  If they end up
> with the same record as NU, Nebraska gets the tie-break with
> the 2-1 series win, but they are 2 games ahead of NU in the
> standings at 13-5.
> 
> Of course MU is the wild card in all of this, but their
> competition has been pitiful so who knows how they will far
> against Texas, Baylor and NU.  NU could easily place 3rd
> behind BU and UT even if they win each series.
> 
> A regional host seems probable if they don’t tank – even
> if they finish 3rd and go at least 2-2 in the Big 12
> tourney.  A super regional host or top 8 seed means they
> need to crank it up and finish 1st or 2nd in both regular
> season and tourney.  But I don’t think that will happen as
> the consistency of the bats just isn’t there.  Where the
> lineup used to be able to usually figure out a pitcher after
> once through the order and either start hitting them or at
> least making them throw more pitches, this team doesn’t
> seem capable of that.  Or there aren’t enough of them that
> can do that.
> 
> So I’m hopeful for a regional host and getting to a super
> regional, but have serious doubts about NU being able to do
> more.  It may not even be the bats or the pitching, it could
> be the little things like last night - poor baserunning and
> an error was the difference between 2-2 and 5-1.
> 
> It’s going to be an interesting month of May.
> 
> Jay
> 
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