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Welp....

Yeah I think sometimes coaches outsmart themselves.

Seems like everyone who won on Thursday, lost yesterday.  

Texas is limping into the postseason with only one starting pitcher.  That is not a recipe for a deep tourney run.  I'm afraid we've seen about the peak of this team, and it happened a month ago.  I'm still really proud of them though, they've out-gritted several teams that had more talent.

Series win against our hated archrivals with an emphatic 9-1 win in Norman yesterday.  Glad we finally won another series before heading into the postseason.

This double-bye thing for a 16-team tournament seems strange but it should be fun.

Florida finishes SEC play at .500 (15-15) after a 1-11 start.

Is that a good coaching job? lol 
Best not to get in a hole to begin with.

Yes, and yes.  

Going 1-11 isn't great, but getting to even afterwards is nothing short of spectacular, and there are a lot of teams who wouldn't want to play the Gators right now.  

I've heard various explanations for what has gone wrong with OU baseball this year.

Lack of NIL money is a popular one. A couple of critical injuries is another. Lack of focus on fundamentals,  especially on defense, is yet another.

Over the last 25 years, I've followed OU softball a lot more closely than I have OU baseball, or college baseball in general. Hometown University of Tulsa had a good baseball program back in the 1960s. It lost to Arizona State in the finals of the CWS in 1969. I listened to the games on the radio. But that program declined, and then became a victim of Title IX. I never followed OU baseball when I was in school there, nor for decades afterward.

9 of the 16 teams left in post-season softball are from the SEC. Maybe somebody will start a thread about that.

9 of the 16 teams left in post-season softball are from the SEC. Maybe somebody will start a thread about that.

I don't have a lot of interest in LSU softball, but I've loosely followed it over the years (emphasis on "loosely") because a short recap is included in a daily update I read about LSU sports.  The team appeared to have some talent this year but was thought to have too many ups and downs, and now has been bounced from it's own regional for the second time in three years.  Coach Beth Torina is speculated to need a more productive season next year, maybe a deep tourney run, to stay off the hot seat.  Most of this team comes back and an injured arm or two is supposed to return.  

I have no idea what "arm injuries" mean in softball and if/how they affect the pitchers the same as in baseball.