All of the sniping, we are better than you will go out the door Sunday afternoon when State- Carolina meet in Omaha Nebraska. The game will not knock either out but for the loser a trip back to North Carolina could come faster than the other but even winning Sunday guarantees no picnic for the winner. It is my opinion that LSU is the team to beat of all the teams left in the World Series and guess what they are in the bracket with State and Carolina.
North Carolina remains #1 in the RPI and right on their heels is LSU in second. LSU is the only team in the country with less than 10 losses. N C State is 6th and UCLA the fourth member of this bracket is 13th. The good news for State and Carolina this sounds like the ACC Tournament all over again.
State and Carolina have played each other three times this season with Carolina winning 7-1 State winning 7-3 and then the marathon game in Durham with the Tar Heels winning 2-1. All three of those games never was Carlos Rodon and Kent Immanuel opposite each other on the mound. You can best better believe they will be on the mound against each other Sunday. No holding back, let's see what you got when these two square off.
This game is every thing for those of us living in North Carolina which ever one you root for but ESPN chose to have the prime time game Sunday LSU and UCLA. Makes sense since it is more of a national game since one is from the south and the other west coast.
So far this year Carolina is 57-10 while State is 49-14. The last 16 times that these two have play each other and that is over the last four years they are even at 8-8. Carolina started out 39-2 but down the stretch 18-8. State started 18-10 but down the stretch 31-4. All of this adds up to two of the best teams in the country playing each other.
The experts called it in the preseason calling Carolina #1 in the country while State was voted #1 in ACC. All that matters now to either team is right now they are 10 days away from a magic dream coming true. This Sunday's loser will have a harder time meeting that dream than the winner but winning Sunday is no guarantee of future success.
Since both teams are in the same bracket they could meet at least once more later in the week and if one team is in the winners bracket is undefeated and the other would have to win twice to win out so Sunday may not be the only time they meet next week.This will be the first time ever that State and Carolina have ever met in the NCAA baseball playoffs or any other NCAA playoff game in any sport. No one cares who beat who last week, last year or last century. The only thing that matters to us all is who wins Sunday.
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