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Message: [QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 4637342, member: 549"] A few other Husky mentions in the [URL='https://d1baseball.com/chats/d1baseball-weekly-chat-april-24/']same chat[/URL]: ->[B] Pirate[/B]: How does East Carolinas terribly lackluster road record affect their chances of hosting? I know Clark LeClair Stadium is one of the toughest places to play in the country, but they have to right the ship on the road record [B]Kendall Rogers[/B]: I said this earlier, but the conference record and that league as a whole being an RPI anchor concerns me about ECU. The Pirates are down to 15 in the RPI, and if I’m being honest, I don’t see them holding that RPI moving forward. Being 5-8 on the road is an eyesore, too, especially when other host contenders like BC and UCONN have 14 or more road wins. <- -> [B]Mid-Major Sadness[/B]: Is this an unusually uninspiring year for mid-majors on the bubble? #44 Irvine needs to be better than 7th in the Big West. Wofford, TX St, ODU, Charlotte seem like they have uphill climbs out of the 50s. The Colonial schools have zero margin for error. #41 UTSA’s next eight games feature a combined winning percentage of .377, so they could fall even without a slip-up. Are we really just waiting around to see which SEC and ACC teams will claim the available 3-seeds? [B]Aaron Fitt[/B]: You make some good points, but also you have Troy sitting there at No. 33, Northeastern at 39, plus the mid-majors that are well above the bubble like Campbell (27), UCSB (25), Southern Miss (19), ECU (15), UConn (14), DBU (13) and Indiana State (10). That’s a lot of mid-majors that look like slam dunk regional teams, and now all of them are going to win their auto bids, which means a number of them will gobble up at-large bids, at the expense of some of those ACC and SEC bubble teams. And then you also have those other mid-major bubble teams you mention. You’re right that mid-majors in the 50s (and even the 40s) don’t have great track records of getting in, but some of those teams could still climb before selection day. They’re in the hunt. <- [/QUOTE]

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