UC Santa Barbara's ugly loss to a 200-plus RPI team means leaves Washington and Arizona as the only ranked teams west of Texas.
If you follow college baseball, you likely know that power is historically distributed between the West Coast and the Southeast. If you've been following college baseball in 2016, you know that the West Coast is hot garbage.
With the Pac-12 down and the region's typically robust mid-major crop struggling, it's within the realm of possibility that there are no regional host sites west of Texas come NCAA Tournament time. UC Santa Barbara, the area's strongest host candidate coming into last weekend, went and dropped a series to UC Davis, a 15-26 team with an RPI rank of 215.