snakehead26

Yes, since 2017 they are 0-4 in the SLC tournament. They did manage to win their first round game in the WAC last year and finished 1-2 there.

That was originally known as the "Lamar rule". Lamar baseball and basketball were so good in the late 70s and early 80s that Lamar finished first in the conference standings almost every year. So the SLC joined the bigger conferences with the tournament to try to keep Lamar from getting the bid every year.

darn my seedings came out correctly on that Northwestern. Lamar couldn't have asked for a better day today. It really all depends who plays well next week. I think any of the teams could win the tournament. Actually, I expected much more out of this season as well especially from the bats. So I have not been happy with a lot of the outcomes myself.

I think they look at their record against the highest seed until one or more are separated. So they would look at Nicholls, UIW, Lamar. Northwestern is 2-1 versus Nicholls and the other two are 1-2 so Northwestern would be the higher seed. Then I think the next seed would be determined by the head to head between McNeese and Northwestern. That would be the single elimination game. Of course who knows I the Southland site is not so good.

LOL Southeastern won and UIW also threatening to add on in the 9th.

LOL oh the ups and downs. If Southeastern and UIW would win Lamar would be in a tie with New Orleans for 3rd and we own the tiebreaker with them... and Southeastern has tied now 6-6.

yeppers following. Southeastern gave up that nice lead to Northwestern. New Orleans already 10 run ruled Nicholls. Hard to figure from week to week. Just don't want to get the single elimination game. So go UIW CARDINGALS !!!

Well Lamar does their part winning 9-5. Current other game going most our way is Southeastern leading Northwestern 4-1 in the 6th inning.

OK two runs in the 5th so taking a 6-3 lead into the sixth inning.

just blew a golden opportunity to add some runs in the 4th. I'm with @spidersal on this....think our pitching needs as many runs as possible to hang on. Maybe they will prove me wrong.

Agree on your calculation but don't know if my trying to interpret the tiebreaker is correct. First, we need to win today and in the 4th inning we are looking pretty shaky. Anyway if we win and at least one of the teams we are currently tied with loses we get no worse than 5th seed. However, if we win and all the teams we are currently tied with also win we would get that 5 team tie I joked about yesterday. Then head to head between the five would be this: AMCC 8-4 Northwestern 7-5 Lamar, New Orleans, and UIW 5-7. At that point i am assuming you give AMCC and Northwestern the 2 and 3 seed. Then you would check Lamar, NO, and UIW record against each other and it would be 3-3. So then i go to record against highest seeds and both New Orleans and UIW are 2-1 versus Nicholls while Lamar is 1-2 so they would get the 4 and 5 seed and Lamar would be 6th.

Yes, and then if those 4 tied teams all win tomorrow it would be a five way tie including UIW. So I'll be waiting for your presentation of all the tiebreaker possibilities later tonight.

I liked last year's format in the SLC. The top two teams were rewarded with a 4 team elimination at home to try to reach the finals. Then the remaining best team got the championship at their field. It gives the best teams during the season a little better odds of following through in the tournament. Under current format this will always give McNeese a bit of an advantage. The other teams receive no advantage other than playing a lower seed in their first round game. Still a ton of scenarios left for the seedings even with two games left but yours will work. We just need to take care of our own business by winning our final two.

Well Tuesday night victory against UTRGV by a score of 10-4. Close out the regular season against HCU on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. This will finally determine if we make the conference tournament and if so what position we will occupy.

Augusta is in the Southland for golf only otherwise they are in Division II Peach Belt Conference. Both the men and the women won the Southland Golf tournaments. The woman are going to make an appearance in the NCAA Championships.

Looks to me like they will need to win all three against HCU to avoid that play-in. That would put them past McNeese who holds a tie breaker edge with them. Then they need to hope New Orleans loses at least one or two without us finishing in a tie with AMCC. Our problem is that we lost all the conference series except New Orleans and Southeastern. Also the tiebreaker rules reference eight teams so I don't know if that is from a prior year. I still assume that if two teams are tied it is head to head with the one taking 2 out of 3 being the higher seed. If three are tied the head to head could be even and then they go to best record against higher seed....yeah it gets complicated. Win 1 and they are at least in the play-in and get swept and they are out of the tournament.

Lamar beats Nicholls 5-4 Southeastern up next.

Lamar will play Nicholls. Nicholls beat AMCC 1-0.

Baseball stadium was originally upgraded in 1983 (40 years) when Beaumont Golden Gators came to time. Only a few minor improvements from time to time since then. As for NCAA tournament even if SLC had a legitimate top 25 team that lost the conference tournament you would be biting your fingernails hoping you get a bid. The committee is biased to the larger richer conferences and just isn't going to give a bid to the lower conferences because of politics. That is why I like to view the independent RPIs put out by different services in all the different sports. They give you a better idea where you stand. Actually, this year Southland keeps moving up on some of those to like 14. The cluster of power is in the mega conferences. All the teams in SLC are pretty much equals this year as even the conference standing indicate this. You could put all the schools in a hat and pull out a name to try to pick the tournament winner. If Lamar's bats woke up in the last week or two they could easily win the tournament but you have to get there to win.

yes I checked some others. there are about 300 teams in Division I baseball. All of Southland other than A&M Corpus and Houston Christian ranks between 100 and 150. So Southland is in the middle of the pack in baseball. It hasn't sunk to the bottom like the other sports.

well same old story here. go into the 8th inning with a 2-1 lead and relief pitching gives up 3 runs. starter only gave up 1 unearned run in 6 innings. admittedly we need more hitting but it is what it is another loss 4-3. with tying run stranded on 3rd base in bottom of 9th.

Another day and another loss 5-1 today. Overall record falls to 18-16 and conference to 4-7.

2 outs in the 8th and then an error no runs were earned... but you have to suck it up at some point and pick up your fielders as well. After the error, the pitcher just totally lost it.

Struggled to close out the 9th. Headed in with a 9-4 lead and finished wining 9-7 stranding Nicholls' runners on 1st and 3rd. Nice win after the tough loss last night.

nice rally for Lamar now let's hold it in the 9th