LSU gets the eighth spot despite dropping a head-to-head series to the Rebels. Hey selection committee, your recency bias is showing.
The complete 64-team field for the college baseball tournament has been announced, and while Ole Miss will host a regional at Swayze this weekend, the Rebs did not land a coveted national seed.
Instead, that fourth SEC national seed went to LSU, a team with a nearly identical resume and a team the Rebs beat two out of three times this season. Look, I get that head-to-head isn't everything—teams change over the course of a season—but when two resumes are close as these two, the deciding factor should be what they did against each other on the field.