And another thing about OSU baseball…
Oklahoma State made the NCAA baseball tournament, causing a bit of a stir.
ESPN called it a strange inclusion. Yahoo! Sports dubbed the Cowboys’ bid comical. And Baseball America said no possible case could be made for the Cowboys.
Truth is, it’s all water under the bridge now. The Cowboys are in. Perhaps the selection process for the NCAA baseball tournament needs to be revamped, but then again, many have been saying that for years. The trouble with that is, the baseball tournament and college baseball in general aren’t big enough deals for the NCAA to get hung up on.
But that’s a blog for a different day.
I wrote today that OSU doesn’t need to apologize for getting into the tournament. The Cowboys had 32 victories this season, and even though they struggled in Big 12 play, they still had an RPI in the 20s.
And let’s be honest — when you’re talking about the last teams in and the first teams out, all of them have warts. OSU does, too, but consider this about the Cowboys — they had three rained-out conference games that could’ve gotten them into the Big 12 Tournament. When umpires called off the Sunday game in the Baylor series because there was standing water in the outfield, OSU was set to send Andy Oliver to the mound. The Bears didn’t even shower before loading the bus and hightailing it out of Payne County.
Not to say there was no standing water in the outfield, but the decision was a judgment call that could’ve easily gone the other way.
There were games played at Oklahoma during the last two weekends of the regular season with outfielders standing in ankle-deep water.
Some might argue that the umpires were just doing what they thought was best when they called those games. They were just making a judgment call.
Turns out, that’s what the NCAA selection committee did, too.
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