Tommies pretty much pounded the nail in the coffin today. Decaster getting hit all over the yard today was not expected, gotta feeling it's going to be a 3rd straight season without a regiona berth. Huge MAC fan right now!

I've been on a board break for a while, but I think it's time to break the silence. As I look through this Midwest Region this could be the year that I believe it's anyone's regional to be had. Sadly I believe that the MIAC may only be a 1-bid conference which is frightening given the Tommies past couple years in the MIAC tourney. Same can be said for the WIAC, if WW takes care of business, as is tradition, that will leave LAX with 17 losses and even though their SOS is crazy good, a 17 loss team getting a C bid is RARE, again if Tommies stumble that leaves them a 16 loss C candidate. In the MIAC we can look to Bethel with a chance, but SOS (as usual) is poor. Great record, but play some good teams already! Bethel's "Best offense in the MIAC" got dominated by St Scholastica's #3 and had 2 hits, at home! Getting to see the Tommies vs St. Scholastica on Sunday was an eye opener, the St. Scholastica offense is pretty solid top to bottom, and their game 1 pitching was solid. Game 2 for both teams looked to be a playoff prep with both teams taking out some of their regulars and pitching guys that have very little stats to speak of, SS is a strong#4 seed. It was nice to see the Tommies middle of the order get rolling in that 2nd game, hopefully that carries over.

A-Bids
MIAC - St. Thomas
WIAC - UW Whitewater
UMAC - St. Scholastica
NACC - Conc-Chicago

C-Bid Hopefuls
WIAC - UW Lax (SOS puts them in the talks)
MIAC - Bethel (SOS may keep them from being a lock)
UMAC - Temps in hell still above freezing
NACC - Conc. Wis (Making the Conf. Tournament final is a MUST)

The Midwest Regional will be a 6 team, with a strong Central team coming up as a 2 or 3 seed and one of those three C-bid hopeful's makes it just to fill it out.

   

Quote from: BigPoppa on May 14, 2016, 07:42:57 AM
At what point does St. Scholastica look to leave the UMAC for baseball? They just won their 19th straight UMAC title. It's not even a contest for them anymore.

The Tommies won their 12th straight MIAC Womens Track & Field title, where should they go? 
I think CSS has a good gig, they get a ton of non-conference games to play whoever they want from the MIAC & WIAC. Looking at their schedule it looks like Carleton was the only soft spot as far as out of conference. Would have been nice to see the matchup against St. John's that got cancelled. Perhaps we'll see it next week.

The Tommies better figure things out tonight or they are done! The rankings on D3 are wrong, according to NCAA.com, St Johns is out and CSS are the #6 behind the Tommies, tough pill for CSS to swallow considering the sweep this past weekend. I don't see the MIAC getting a C bid with all the upsets around the country.
Here's the link to the NCAA Regional Rankings
http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/baseball/d3

Is UWS going to have Baseball next year?

Sad day in Tommie land! Terrible regular season (although it was a decent schedule) and just as the hopes got up yesterday that the ship was righted, WHAM kicked in the nuts by the most inconsistent offense in Tommie memory. Olean has done a great job recruiting, he gets a lot of high end talent players and the transfers that fall in his lap boggles the mind, but what they are when they get there is a what they will be when they leave. Not sure how much development actually happens. Some of these juniors and seniors still have the same bad habits they had as freshman, and the early success that they've had may have made them a little to content.
Good Luck to St. Johns because they will be the only MIAC representative, Bethel & Conc Mo's chances went bye bye when the Central favorites started to fall. Bethel could do some damage and would have gotten a good look without the 0-2 stinker they just put up.
Too bad it would be nice to go to a regional in Wisconsin and NOT have it in Whitewater. 

Still up in the air about the Tommie opener, not sure we're quite as good as a 9-2 victory over St. Scholastica. The bats went completely asleep one CSS got someone in that could throw the ball over the plate. The benefit of a bad call on the interference was a huge break. Then to look very average in the Buena game should have woken this team up. We can pitch no doubt but look very average at the plate, good hitters shouldn't look so easy to get out!

Any new news on the Lechnir situation? I would love an Oshkosh perspective on this, because this whole situation just reeks of a personal dislike by the AD towards a great coach.

There is no doubt that he underestimated Case! Not throwing Thomas was a play that had to be done to win this tournament, the HUGE error was thinking that he could get by them using Franz when he had far better bullets left in the gun. Sad days the past few in Tommie land. To say Dennis wouldn't have done it that way is fair because this isn't the same program that Coach Denning built. It's about having a philosophy of bringing in a ton of good players and letting it sort itself almost like a junior college. Very little teaching and a lot of recruiting. When they start putting it all together watch out it could be the making of a lot of trips to Appleton in a row. For now the Tommie's missed a great opportunity be in the hunt for a title. Things need to change or this will be a common theme and recruits will be going elsewhere.

So like I said about the Tommie lineup hitting good pitching.......

There's no sarcasm on these boards, Shinetime truly believes that nobody can play with his beloved Point or anyone in the WIAC for that matter. As a devoted fan I hope we can all be as enthusiastic about our teams and repectful of others without sarcasm, but thats impossible so I look forward to the Tommies eliminating the Pointers, and for good measure the Warhawks as well.

I would gladly trade the St. Scholastica team for Benedictine or Case. The seeding in this regional is jacked up anyways, there is no way Whitewater should be a #3 after DOMINATING the WIAC this year. Point did beat the Jensen kid, but I wouldn't say handly, and Davis who is 8 months off Tommy John and from the looks of it is their #4. I've seen CSS play well and know that they can beat anyone in this regional on a given day which is why day 1 of regionals are so great, everyone has a #1 and they can take higher seeds and put them into the play back role see LAX last year.   

I don't worry about Maher or any of the staff, the question lies in what this Tommie squad does against top end pitching. With the MIAC down this year there was not the quality top end arms in the conference (outlside of Rowley at Bethel) that can put a good offense to the test. I like the Tommies to come out of the Midwest and I REALLY like them to come out of the Central if that scenario were to play out. I think the Tommies locked up a #1 seed no matter what region they are in, so the option to throw a Wedinger or Veglahn and hold Thomas for game 2. Also if need be have Maher to close game 1 and get a later start. Should be a fun week. Lastly I'm pretty sure about a week or so I said that Point would win the WIAC tournament, was told about the Warhawk pitching being far superior, guess that worked out. 

Anyone wanna play the prediction game and pick some Conf tourney winners?

I'll start:

MIAC: St. Thomas (like I'd pick anyone else)

WIAC: Stevens Point - Like their pitching better than WW

NathC: Benedictine - I think they are little more tested the Con Chi.

UMAC: St. Scholastica - going out on a limb here 

Regional Bids:
UST - A
UWSP - A
NATHC - A
UMAC - A
UWW - C
Conc Chi - C

Not sure anyone else in the region is C worthy.

Let's say they drop the last 2 to Osh and go 0-2 in the conference tourney, that puts them at 30-12. I still believe they are a C bid baseed on SOS alone. Although I don't see this happening, I actually pick them to win the WIAC tourney.