Big 12 Tournament Open Thread!

by The Boy on May 21, 2008 8:08 AM CDT in Events

Big 12 Baseball in OKC:

Who: No. 9 Missouri Tigers (37-17, 16-11) vs. Texas, Oklahoma, and Texas A&M
2008 Series: MU took 2 of 3 from Texas and Oklahoma, was swept by Texas A&M

When: May 21-25
Where: AT&T Bricktown Ballpark (Capacity: 13,066)
Game times: (Respectively) 9:00 am (today) / 7:30 pm (tomorrow) / 12:30 pm (Saturday)

VS.

Radio: ESPN 1580 AM (KTGR.com) / XM Radio
TV (Online): Big12Sports.com
Weather: Current Hour-by-Hour Forecast
Tourney notes: Mizzou, Big12Sports.com Live Blog
Online tracker: CSTV GameTracker
SB Nation Affiliates: Burnt Orange Nation, Crimson & Cream Machine, 12th Manchild

Make Rock M Nation your base of operations this weekend and weigh in with your predictions, questions, worries, bold statements and observations by signing up for a free account. After a dominant performance against Nebraska last weekend, Mizzou has won five of their last six Big 12 series and 8 of 10 games overall. A strong week in OKC could result in not only a solid 2-seed in the NCAA Tournament, but also a shot at a second straight regional hosting gig.

Fight Tigers!

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My own pool prediction...

Mizzou loses to Texas, beats OU, beats ATM.
Texas beats Mizzou, beats OU, loses to ATM.
ATM beats Texas, loses to OU, loses to MU.
OU beats ATM, loses to Mizzou, loses to Texas.

That would leave MU and UT at 2-1, with UT moving to the finals. Texas is as hot as Mizzou, having also won 8 of 10 and coming off of a sweep of a top team (ATM). The predictions above were off-the-cuff...I have no idea about pitching matchups yet...I just based them on momentum and pure guesswork...

by The Boy on May 21, 2008 8:13 AM CDT 0 recs

Texas has found their rhythm...

... and a Texas team with rhythm is never one you want to see.

A&M is coming in on a slide and REALLY needs to win early to regain their momentum.

by rptgwb on May 21, 2008 9:24 AM CDT up 0 recs

I have a 9am meeting...

...but anybody who's around can feel free to post some comments...I do believe big12sports.com will have streaming video, but I'm not sure if it works yet...

by The Boy on May 21, 2008 8:36 AM CDT 0 recs

MIZZOU WINS!

Well, I just check the scoreboard, and Mizzout won 3-2. Great start to the tournament!

GO MIZZOU!!

by monatetiger on May 21, 2008 1:46 PM CDT 0 recs

well that was fun...

...we had a 3-4 hour SB Nation outage there (the service provider for all SBN blogs crashed)...just in time for the game to start, get exciting, and end. Oh well I guess.

by The Boy on May 21, 2008 2:09 PM CDT 0 recs

Meanwhile, in Game #2...

...OU leads 4-1 in the top of the 8th. That would end a LOVELY first day for Mizzou, as if there's a three-way tie for first in the pool, the highest-seeded team advances to the championship. If there's a three-way tie for first, we want ATM to be the team left out.

And if OU holds on to win, I can say I predicted it (see the first comment above). Just sayin'. In fact, if I get all the other picks right (after missing on MU-UT), then Mizzou's in the title game.

by The Boy on May 21, 2008 2:18 PM CDT 0 recs

OU wins!

So Pool 1 now looks like this:

Mizzou 1-0
OU 1-0
UT 0-1
ATM 0-1

After tomorrow (MU-OU, UT-ATM), there will be one 2-0 team (MU-OU winner), two 1-1 teams (MU-OU loser, UT-ATM winner), and one 0-2 team (UT-ATM loser). We'll now need to root for UT over ATM because we've got the tiebreaker over UT...

by The Boy on May 21, 2008 2:46 PM CDT up 0 recs

In other words...

...if we win and Texas wins tomorrow, we're in the finals no matter what happens Saturday (and we can therefore start Crow in the finals if we want to).

If MU and UT win tomorrow...

MU 2-0
OU 1-1
UT 1-1
ATM 0-2

Mizzou advances.

If MU and ATM win tomorrow...

MU 2-0
OU 1-1
ATM 1-1
UT 0-2

If MU beats ATM, they advance. If ATM beats MU, there's no way MU can advance--the winner would then be either ATM (if UT beats OU) or OU (if they beat UT).

If OU and UT win tomorrow...

OU 2-0
MU 1-1
UT 1-1
ATM 0-2

MU can still advance if they beat ATM and UT beats OU (in a three-way tie, the top seed advances).

If OU and ATM win tomorrow...

OU 2-0
MU 1-1
ATM 1-1
UT 0-2

OU advances no matter what.

by The Boy on May 21, 2008 2:52 PM CDT up 0 recs

I'm not sure...

... that Day 1 could have gone better for Mizzou.

Hell of a gutsy effort by the Tigers today has them in great position heading into Day 2.

by rptgwb on May 21, 2008 3:10 PM CDT up 0 recs

Oh it was perfect...

...the only way it could have gone better were if Gibson hadn't had to pitch that extra inning. We might not have our one-man bullpen available for OU, but then again, he's young...maybe three innings isn't too much, and he can go another 1-2 tomorrow. The key to our fortunes at this point is Berger. If it's Good Ian against OU tomorrow, and he can pull out a '7 innings, 2-3 runs' performance, and we can bring in Gibson for the last couple innings, that's a great outcome. If it's the Berger who showed up last time he pitched against OU (1 inning, 7 runs)...well...OU's going to be sitting at 2-0 tomorrow night.

by The Boy on May 21, 2008 4:08 PM CDT up 0 recs

unless, of course...

...Crow goes tomorrow night, which I guess is a possibility. Not sure.

by The Boy on May 21, 2008 4:26 PM CDT up 0 recs

If UT avoids a massive collapse here...

...then things will have continued to set up perfectly for Mizzou. They were up 12-0 after three innings, but it's now 14-8 in the 7th. If UT wins, then all Mizzou has to do is win tonight, and they're in the tournament finals.

by The Boy on May 22, 2008 6:35 PM CDT 0 recs

Now 15-9 UT, bottom 8th...

...come on, Horns.

by The Boy on May 22, 2008 7:09 PM CDT up 0 recs

Horns win!

The table is set for Mizzou...

by The Boy on May 22, 2008 7:19 PM CDT up 0 recs

And Game 2 is underway...

...Aaron Crow IS starting against OU, and I must say...I like that move. Go for the jugular tonight, and maybe Crow will be available for a couple innings on Sunday if we win tonight.

by The Boy on May 22, 2008 8:08 PM CDT 0 recs