One major key will be remaining in the winner's bracket as long as possible as among other things, the additional game(s) required from fighting out of the loser's bracket will deplete our pitching staff.
We have demonstrated that we can hang with any team in this conference (five, perhaps six other schools can say the same thing) but hanging with a team does not necessarily equate to beating them (we've proven that quite a bit this season). What we need to do is avoid giving away outs (by eliminating base running blunders), giving extra outs (with shoddy fielding) and not capitalizing on scoring opportunities.
If we can play smarter and more fundamentally sound than we have most of this season, we can do some damage in this tournament.