[Husker] Big XII Baseball Tourney

[Skylar Dodds]

Hello Husker Fans,

  As mentioned before, Sunday's NU loss gives them the #4 seed in the
  Big XII tourney (due to a tie breaker to OU for the head-to-head
  matchup).  It also dropped NU to #15 in the Baseball America poll.

  That means NU joins Texas, Texas Tech, and Baylor in a round-robin
  style bracket with OU, KU, OSU and MU filling out the second
  bracket. NU starts the action off against Baylor at 10:00am
  Wednesday. NUs games will not be televised (nor streamed via
  huskers.com) until Saturday vs UT on FSN at 1pm. All games will be
  carried on Pinnacle and SIRIUS (Channel TBA) and live stats will be
  available via Huskers.com or BigXIISports.com.

  The seeds are as follows:
  #1 Texas
  #2 OSU
  #3 OU
  #4 NU
  #5 Baylor
  #6 Kansas
  #7 MU
  #8 TT

  The Schedule for the Big XII tourney:

  WEDNESDAY, MAY 24
  Game 1: #4 Nebraska vs. #5 Baylor, 10 a.m.
  Game 2: #1 Texas vs. #8 Texas Tech, 1 p.m.
  Game 3: #3 Oklahoma vs. #6 Kansas, 5 p.m.
  Game 4: #2 Oklahoma State vs. #7 Missouri  8 p.m.


  THURSDAY, MAY 25
  Game 6: #1 Texas vs. #5 Baylor, 5 p.m.
  Game 7: #4 Nebraska vs. #8 Texas Tech, 8 p.m.


  FRIDAY, MAY 26
  Game 8: #3 Oklahoma vs. #7 Missouri, 5 p.m.
  Game 9: #2 Oklahoma State vs. #6 Kansas, 8 p.m.


  SATURDAY, MAY 27
  Game 10: #5 Baylor vs. #8 Texas Tech, 10 a.m.
  Game 11: #1 Texas vs. #4 Nebraska, 1 p.m.
  Game 12: #2 Oklahoma State vs. #3 Oklahoma, 5 p.m.
  Game 13: #6 Kansas vs. #7 Missouri, 8 p.m.


  SUNDAY, MAY 28
  Championship Game
  Division 1 winner vs. Division 2 winner, 1 p.m.


  <personal rant>
  I'm not real thrilled with the tie breaker system should their be
  three 2-1 teams (Baylor beats NU, TT and loses to UT...NU beats UT,
  TT and loses to Baylor, UT beats Baylor, TT and loses to NU).  In
  that scenario where the 'head-to-head' tie breaker doesn't work, the
  teams finished in the regular-season Big 12 race will determine who
  goes on.  In other words, tie goes to Texas or highest seed.

  If it's a tie between us, Baylor and Texas Tech (very unlikely) we
  would go on.  Baylor and TT cannot benefit from a tie.

  On a positive note (and the reason for the changes to round-robin)
  each team is promised at least 3 games and will not need to play
  more than 4. The problem was some of the winners came through the
  losers bracket playing 6 games in 4 days and really using up their
  pitching staff (NU 2000, 2005 UT 2002, 2003) and crippling them for
  postseason play.
  </personal rant>
  
  

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Go Skers,
 Skylar                            mailto:Sklarbodds at cox.net