You know what screwed LSU...

[camlock]

is the fact that there are 4 teams in the tournament with losing records a a couple more BARELY over 500...

They need to do away with the, win the conference tourney tie in bullcrap, especially with the small conferences!

Princeton in at 19-24????? WTF

[Greenhead22]

It's just like the NCAA basketball tournament. The NCAA will never be able to take the BEST teams in the nation, and put them in a tournament or postseason play of some sort due to the fact that they have to be politically correct when it concerns smaller conference teams. If they did then you would have no "cinderella" teams.........no names like Valpo, Bucknell, George Mason that make it into the sweet 16, elite 8, final four, etc.

I remember a few yrs back when San Jose St and La Lafayette made it to the CWS by winning their conference tourney's, only chance they had of receiving a bid.

The automatic bids from conf tourney champs really didn't hurt LSU because the NCAA would never put them as a #4 seed, nor would they do the same towards MSU. The at-large bids they gave to Stanford, UC Irvine, San Diego,
San Francisco, Mizzou and Jacksonville...........all teams with way lower RPI's than LSU, it was screwed LSU.

[Po Monkey Lounger]

I like the conference tourney tie-ins. It adds excitement at the end of the season for teams to play for a second chance ---teams that may have started slowly, but finished strong, but too little too late to earn an at-large berth. The "underdog" element makes college sports what it is today, with mass appeal.

[JEDJR]

The bottom line is if you take care of business on the diamond, You dont put your post season future in the hands of a committee.