Benton Moss returned to UNC for his senior year to pitch for the Tar Heels turning down being a fifteenth round selection as a junior. He returned to Carolina for many more reasons other than not liking his draft status but coming back to play one more year paid off today for Moss.
The 174th player today announced in the sixth round was Benton Moss and he was grabbed up by the Tampa Bay Rays. A sixth rounder has very little negotiating power especially a player who is a senior with no further college baseball eligibility left. Once the Rays can concentrate on signing players once the draft is over I suspect Moss will sign quickly in order to report to where ever they will send him once he signs.
As I write this they are in the middle of the eighth round of ten that will be held today and we all await to see if a spectacular senior season for Collins Cuthrell will pay off getting a call. We will monitor the remaining draft today and all of tomorrow's looking for Collin's name.
The ACC has been sixty years since they won the College World Series. If they are to win it this year they must beat four teams from the Southeastern Conference. LSU, Florida, Vanderbilt and Arkansas all won their Super Regional to quality for the World Series. The ACC will have their chance however as two teams survived the Super Regional Virginia and Miami.
There can only be one ACC team to play for the title if either gets that far as both Miami and Virginia are in the same bracket. Saturday's first day will match Arkansas against Virginia and Florida the number one overall seed when the tournament began playing Miami. These four teams will play a double elimination tournament and the other bracket will do the same with the two winners playing a two out of three late next weekend.
The other bracket will feature LSU against TCU the lone team left from the Big 12. Cal State Fullerton who knocked Louisville out in extra innings Monday night will face Vanderbilt. All of this action starts Sunday. Two of the deciding games Monday night went extra innings including the 16 inning TCU -Texas A&AM 5-4 game.
The college basketball rules committee has made some rule changes of interest starting next basketball season. The big one is reducing the time clock to 30 seconds. Several more include coaches calling time outs while the game is in progress. That would eliminate coaches calling time out when the ten second mid court violation is about to happen. A player on the court can call a timeout but you will only have the few seconds on the ten second clock to still get it over mid court after the time out. They also installed a flopping rule.
The women's game is going to ten minute quarters instead of two 20 minute halls.
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