Since we are new to this cool event that apparently the ACC plays at the end of every baseball season (who knew?), I am posting a super in-depth analysis of the format, the ACC uses:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bl...heduling-college-ncaa-wake-forest-clemson-unc
4 pods of 3 teams. Each pod is a 2 game round-robin. The results of each pod can only be 2-0, 1-1, and 0-2 or everyone finishes at 1-1. If everyone finishes at 1-1, the top seed advances to the semifinals on Saturday.
This means that the only teams who can lose a game and advance are the top 4 seeds. I mean that seems fair and all but since the top 4 seeds do NOT play in the first 4 games, it means the tournament's first 4 games are elimination games but will still have another game to play. Now, for teams who are on the bubble, that exta game may have some importance even though there is no chance at advancing in the ACCT. For a team like Pitt, if we lose to GT, the team will know that the next game vs UNC is their final game of the season, making it nothing more than an exhibition game for us.
As for Pitt's chances itself, although I didn't really follow the team this year and I felt that we had better overall talent in some later Big East years and 1-2 ACC years when we didn't even make the ACCT, I am fairly excited about this tournament because given the random outcomes the sport of baseball produces, Pitt could easily beat a team it is fairly evenly matched with in GT and then play UNC for a spot in yhr the semifinals where they'd be 2 wins away from an NCAAT bid. Not that I think they will do that but its neat that a low seed like Pitt is 1 win away from being 3 wins away from a bid. In basketball, that would still be a nearly impossible task. But in baseball, chances are much much better for a team with lesser talent to win a few in a row.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bl...heduling-college-ncaa-wake-forest-clemson-unc
4 pods of 3 teams. Each pod is a 2 game round-robin. The results of each pod can only be 2-0, 1-1, and 0-2 or everyone finishes at 1-1. If everyone finishes at 1-1, the top seed advances to the semifinals on Saturday.
This means that the only teams who can lose a game and advance are the top 4 seeds. I mean that seems fair and all but since the top 4 seeds do NOT play in the first 4 games, it means the tournament's first 4 games are elimination games but will still have another game to play. Now, for teams who are on the bubble, that exta game may have some importance even though there is no chance at advancing in the ACCT. For a team like Pitt, if we lose to GT, the team will know that the next game vs UNC is their final game of the season, making it nothing more than an exhibition game for us.
As for Pitt's chances itself, although I didn't really follow the team this year and I felt that we had better overall talent in some later Big East years and 1-2 ACC years when we didn't even make the ACCT, I am fairly excited about this tournament because given the random outcomes the sport of baseball produces, Pitt could easily beat a team it is fairly evenly matched with in GT and then play UNC for a spot in yhr the semifinals where they'd be 2 wins away from an NCAAT bid. Not that I think they will do that but its neat that a low seed like Pitt is 1 win away from being 3 wins away from a bid. In basketball, that would still be a nearly impossible task. But in baseball, chances are much much better for a team with lesser talent to win a few in a row.
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