Does AM-Corpus Make Tournament?

[GTBBaseball]

Tx A-M Corpus Cristi just advanced to the semi finals of the SLC tournament, they have accumulated 36wins, beating teams such as Big12 Champs Univ Texas, Pac 10 Champs Oregon State and Big 12 Texas Tech this season.
Any chance the Southland places 3 teams in the NCAA's? Or will it be business as usual with 8 teams from the SEC, 8 from Big 12, 8 from ACC?
Tx State, SFA, and Corpus ALL Deserve a shot if 20percent of all of D1 programs advance to the NCAA, The Southland deserves 20percent of their conference participating as well.
Not many teams this year have the "bar" of 40win seasons this year, so hoping those 3 schools get respect from the committee to  advance.

[MIF04]

This is actually a great topic:  how does NCAA select participants for regionals, etc?

Simply wins and losses are not the sole measure (although rare, 40 win teams miss an invite and less than 30 wins get in).  Upsets in tournament plays also plays havoc.  With that being said, the biggest 'stats' that the NCAA uses are (1) RPI and (2) Strength of Schedule.  That is why, for example, the SEC gets 8 teams (this year, their #9 and #10 teams will probably get in).  With that being said, look at the resumes from the Southland:

TEXAS STATE:  solid contender with 36 wins, 24-9 conf record and regular season champion.  Their RPI is 46 (not a lock from a 2nd tier conference) and their SOS an even worse 76.  This is very similar to the Bobcats' situation last year when...Lamar came from the 7th seed to win the conf tourney.  How did that help?  The conference's best team got left at home.  No invite.  Also, Texas State really does not have any marquee wins this season.

SFA:  also with 36 wins and a 20-13 2nd place conf finish.  On the other hand, their RPI is a lowly 95 with a Strength of Schedule of 148.

A&M-CC:  3rd place at 19-14 with 35-23 overall.  While they do have some quality wins, the bottom line is that their RPI is a tough-to-advance 89 and a SOS of 112.
 
At the end of the week, the winner of the tourney gets in and I am afraid the rest stay home.  Tx State has the best at-large argument; however, the lack of 'big' wins is a difficult issue.

[Guest UHCoog14]

I think Tx State gets an at large bid if necessary.

[MIF04]

They could slip in if Texas gets 4 regionals.  I think Texas, A&M and TCU are near locks to host.  The bubble team to host is Rice.  A Rice regional probably ups Tex St chances.  I am just cautious after what happened last year.

[Guest beechnut]

I hope they do but Rice getting one is tough.

[MIF04]

Except NCAA likes Reckling Park.  Big stadium.  Major city, etc.  Could even host as a #2 but I doubt that.

[MIF04]

For the record, I would love for all 3 schools to get a bid.  It would be a huge boost for SFA and A&M-CC.  So, fingers crossed....

[ForeverADog]

Who won the tourney?

[Guest UHCoog14]

Tx State beat SFA 9-0
to earn the automatic bid.

[ForeverADog]

Thanks. That means one bid for the SLC. Texas would have gotten an at-large IMO.

[Guest baseball25]

Corpus had 9 losses with teams with a rpi over a 100 thats what hurt A&M corpus this yr, only way they were getting in  was winning the southland tourney, also they were 8-14 against top 100 rpi teams, the whole body of work wasn't there!!! Losing 9 straight games this yr hurt bad!!! Also oregon st. didn't win the pac 10, If any other team in the southland got a bid it would have been southeastern la, but they choked it up the last 2 yrs at the end of the season. Also Texas St. deserved to be in they were 18-13 against opponents in the top 100 in rpi.