College World Series

Rice University is in the College World Series, which begins this weekend. They won the tournament a few years ago. That was Rice's only national chamionship in any sport.

This year, they're ranked #1 in the country, but seeded #2 in the tournmant. How does that work?

And if you go the CWS website's schedule, they already show Rice in the loser's bracket, even though no games have been played! What's up with that??

UPDATE: Okay, now they're off the loser's bracket. Thankfully.

I notice that most of the eight schools in the tournament are from the Southeast: Georgia, Georgia Tech, Clemson, North Carolina, Miami. Doesn't the rest of the country know how to play baseball? No schools from the Northeast or Midwest. Just Rice, Cal State Fullerton, and Oregon State from the West. And I'm sure a lot of you would place Rice in the Southeast category. . .