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http://www.d1baseball.com/analysis/postseason-primer-may-9/
It was a long list of teams which helped or hurt themselves this past weekend all with a paragraph or two of explanation.
Nebraska was on the "Help Themselves" list...
Nebraska: Here comes Darin Erstad’s Huskers. Here’s yet another team that was in quite the precarious situation a few weeks ago. Now, after a road series win over Michigan State, the Huskers deserve to be in the discussion for the next field of 64 on Wednesday. NU is up to 46 in the RPI, but still have a 3-7 mark vs. RPI Top 50 teams. Meanwhile, it is now tied for fourth in the Big Ten. The Big Red isn’t totally safe with that mark vs. RPI Top 50, but things are certainly looking up.
Not sure why the article was headlined with Erstad's picture.
It was a long list of teams which helped or hurt themselves this past weekend all with a paragraph or two of explanation.
Nebraska was on the "Help Themselves" list...
Nebraska: Here comes Darin Erstad’s Huskers. Here’s yet another team that was in quite the precarious situation a few weeks ago. Now, after a road series win over Michigan State, the Huskers deserve to be in the discussion for the next field of 64 on Wednesday. NU is up to 46 in the RPI, but still have a 3-7 mark vs. RPI Top 50 teams. Meanwhile, it is now tied for fourth in the Big Ten. The Big Red isn’t totally safe with that mark vs. RPI Top 50, but things are certainly looking up.
Not sure why the article was headlined with Erstad's picture.
I'd say because the talent is there so now it's on Erstad to actually coach and win games
The Stock Report (http://www.d1baseball.com/featured/postseason-stock-report-week-12/) is really long beginning with the National Seed picture then the other hosts then the at large picture and finally all the conference stuff. Here's their take on the Big Ten.
Big Ten (4 bids)
SAFELY IN: Minnesota, Michigan
ON THE BUBBLE (IN): Michigan State, Nebraska
ON THE BUBBLE (OUT): Maryland, Indiana
One change from last week: Nebraska replaces Maryland in our field of 64.
The Terrapins have lost four of their last five games, including a home series to Illinois this weekend that dropped them to 10-8 in the Big Ten (part of a three-way tie for sixth place). They’ve also slipped 19 places in the RPI over the last week to No. 64. The combination of a dropping RPI and a middle-of-the-pack Big Ten record puts the Terps on the wrong side of the bubble, although the league remains tightly packed, with just three games separating the top eight teams.
Nebraska replaces Maryland as the Big Ten’s fourth team after taking two of three on the road at Michigan State, which vaulted the Cornhuskers from No. 71 all the way up to No. 47 in the RPI. They’re now tied with the Spartans at 11-7 in the conference, have a higher RPI than MSU (No. 55) and a series win against MSU on the road, so Nebraska is clearly ahead of the Spartans in the pecking order. But we’re keeping Michigan State in our field as the Big Ten’s fourth team thanks in large part to its series win against Michigan last weekend. MSU has a very thin margin for error, however, with an RPI in the mid-50s. the Spartans probably need to win their last two series at Iowa and vs. Maryland.
Indiana now sits atop the conference standings by a half-game over Minnesota and Michigan after taking a series from the Gophers. The Hoosiers are making progress in the RPI — they entered this past weekend at No. 131, and now they’re sitting at No. 94. They still have a long way to go to crack the top 60 and have a realistic shot at an at-large berth, but they have some decent RPI games left against Illinois (No. 66), at Louisville (No. 2) for one midweek, and at Nebraska. If they keep on winning, then make noise in the conference tournament, maybe they’ve got a shot to get that RPI into at-large range. But it still feels like a long shot. Their best path to the postseason is to win the conference tournament — and it looks like they’ll be one of the favorites to do just that. If they do, expect one of the other Big Ten teams to get squeezed out, keeping this a four-bid league.
