(Baseball) Kentucky drops 2 of 3 to Arkansas

[swamprat]

At Cliff Hagan, the Cats lose 1-0, Friday night. Saturday they drop the 1st game of a double header 2-0, then rally in the second game, 5-4.

 

Kentucky is now 24-15, 10-8 in the SEC.

 

UK hosts Dayton on Tuesday and Miami (OH) on Wednesday.

[Wireman]

I'm still clueless on how college baseball works. What does UK have to do to get to the national tournament?

[jpa2825]

I'm still clueless on how college baseball works. What does UK have to do to get to the national tournament?

 

Short answer: win the SEC tourney or have a good enough record to get 1 of 33 at-large bids. Depending on how many upsets in conference tourneys, assume top 40 RPI teams have a good chance of getting a bid.

 

 

Link below suggests 31 automatic bids to the NCAA tournament. That means 33 at-large bids.

 

8 National Seeds are named. 8 additional teams (9-16) host 1st weekend games. 4 teams at each of the 16 locations for a total of 64 teams. 1 plays 4 and 2 plays 3 and the 4 go on to play double elimination until a champion is crowned.

 

Any of the top 8 seeds that survive to weekend #2 host. If the other host team (9-16) survives and the top 8 seed they are paired with does not survive, that host team. If neither of the top 16 seeds survives, I assume the better seed hosts with ties broken by the team coming out of the 1-8 pod (just guessing). The 2 teams play best 2 of 3. Winner advances to Omaha.

 

8 teams go to Omaha and are in 2 4-team pods. They play the same double elimination tourney as Weekend #1 with 2 teams advancing.

 

Those 2 teams play best 2 of 3 for the NCAA Championship.

 

216 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia