5/18 Baseball Bracketology Breakdown

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Last Eight In: Indiana, East Carolina, Kentucky, Michigan State, NC State, Southern Mississippi, Notre Dame, Tulane

First Eight Out: Alabama, Liberty, Maryland, Memphis, Missouri, UNC Wilmington, South Carolina, UCF

There was a lot of movement on the bubble over weekend. As a whole, the Big Ten bubble teams hurt themselves as Maryland, Michigan State and Ohio State dropped series to weaken their resumes. Ohio State should still be in but Maryland and MSU are squarely on the bubble for the tournament. Liberty dropped a series to High Point, UCF lost to South Florida and Memphis fell to Tulane to fall outside the field. Missouri is an interesting bubble team, as they have the second best strength of schedule in the country, but they lost a crucial series to Kentucky that could keep them out of the field.

While there were a lot of teams that hurt themselves, three made big jumps. Indiana swept Ohio State and now find themselves in the field. Southern Mississippi joins them after an impressive series win over Middle Tennessee. Clemson probably had the best weekend of any team, sweeping Florida State, but they still have work to do to get off the bubble and into the field. With conference tournaments starting up this week, it's crunch time for bubble teams.

 

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ACC: Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami, NC State, Notre Dame, North Carolina, Virginia

American: East Carolina, Houston, Tulane

Big East: St. Johns

Big 12: Oklahoma State, TCU

Big Ten: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan State, Ohio State

Pac-12: Arizona State, California, Oregon State, UCLA*, USC

SEC: Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt


A-10: St. Louis

America East: Stony Brook

A-Sun: North Florida

Big South: Coastal Carolina, Radford

Big West: Cal State Fullerton, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara

CAA: Charleston

C-USA: Rice, Florida Atlantic, Southern Mississippi

Horizon: Wright State

Ivy: Columbia*

MAAC: Rider

MAC: Central Michigan

MEAC: Florida A&M*

MVC: Bradley, Dallas Baptist, Missouri State

MWC: Nevada

NEC: Bryant

OVC: Southeast Missouri

Patriot: Lehigh*

Southern: Mercer

Southland: Southeastern Louisiana

Summit: Oral Roberts

Sun Belt: South Alabama

SWAC: Texas Southern*

WAC: Seattle

WCC: San Diego
 

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