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[Papa_Bull]

USF fell from RPI #27 to RPI #45 after losing two out of three to USM. Here are the current listings for the Top 50:

Note: W-L records are through games of 3/28.            

RPI Rating   W   L      W   L    Team      

 1   0.683   28   4     28   4   Texas

 2   0.661   20   3     20   3   Stanford

 3   0.660   21   7     21   7   Arizona State

 4   0.659   22   5     22   5   Miami, Florida

 5   0.658   21   4     21   4   Louisiana State

 6   0.655   12   2     12   2   Wichita State

 7   0.646   20   6     20   6   Rice

 8   0.644   16   6     18   6   Birmingham-Southern

 9   0.638   24   5     24   5   Florida

10   0.637   20   3     20   3   Mississippi

11   0.635   21   7     21   7   Florida State

12   0.630   21   4     21   4   South Carolina

13   0.614   20   7     20   7   Virginia

14   0.614   21   6     21   6   East Carolina

15   0.609   23   6     23   6   Texas A&M

16   0.606   18   6     18   6   UC Irvine

17   0.603   20   6     20   6   Auburn

18   0.603   21   5     21   5   Tennessee

19   0.602   17   9     17   9   Oklahoma State

20   0.601   20   6     20   6   North Carolina

21   0.601   17   7     17   7   Coastal Carolina

22   0.600   17   8     17   8   North Carolina State

23   0.600   10   7     10   8   Minnesota

24   0.600   18   7     18   7   Long Beach State

25   0.599   15   7     15   7   Washington

26   0.599   17   9     17   9   Arkansas

27   0.599   16   3     17   3   Notre Dame

28   0.598   13   3     13   3   Albany

29   0.598   16   8     16   8   Georgia

30   0.596   25   5     25   5   Florida Atlantic

31   0.596   19   7     19   7   Tulane

32   0.593   20   4     20   4   Southern Mississippi

33   0.591   14  12     14  12   Texas State

34   0.590   17   9     17   9   Texas Christian

35   0.589   12  14     12  14   Southern California

36   0.586   13  11     13  11   Arizona

37   0.585   16   5     16   5   Nebraska

38   0.584   12  10     12  10   Clemson

39   0.580   15  13     15  13   Cal State Fullerton

40   0.579   18   5     18   5   Vanderbilt

41   0.577   14   8     14   8   Mississippi State

42   0.575   17   9     17   9   Texas Tech

43   0.573    9  17      9  17   Houston

44   0.572   15  10     15  10   Oklahoma

45   0.571   18   8     18   8   South Florida

46   0.570   19   8     19   8   Lamar

47   0.569   16   8     16   8   Louisiana-Lafayette

48   0.568    8   9      8   9   Penn State

49   0.568   23   5     23   5   Central Florida

50   0.566   18   7     19   7   Kansas State

http://www.boydsworld.com/baseball/rpi/currentrpi.html

USF plays @ Stetson (RPI #91) tonight and then plays a three game home series with St. Louis (RPI #203) over the weekend.

Here are the current C-USA Baseball Standings:

2004 STANDINGS

(March 29)

 .....................Conference........... Overall

 Team............  W L T Pct. H  A  W L T  Pct.  H  A  N  L10  Stk.

Tulane............  5 1 0 .833 3-0 2-1 19 7 0 .731 15-3 4-4 0-0 7-3 W 6

TCU...............  5 1 0 .833 3-0 2-1 17 9 0 .654 10-3 4-5 3-1 8-2 W 1

Louisville........  5 1 0 .833 3-0 2-1 14 9 0 .609 11-7 2-2 1-0 8-2 W 3

Southern Miss   4 2 0 .667 2-0 2-1 20 4 0 .833 12-2 6-2 2-0 8-2 W 2

USF............... 4 2 0 .667 4-2 0-0 18 8 0 .692 16-4 2-2 0-2 7-3 L 2

East Carolina    3 3 0 .500 1-2 2-1 21 6 0 .778 18-2 3-4 0-0 7-3 W 2

Charlotte........  3 3 0 .500 3-0 0-3 13 9 0 .591 10-5 3-4 0-0 5-5 L 3

UAB............... 2 3 0 .400 1-2 1-1 14 9 0 .619 12-7 2-2 0-0 4-6 W 1

Houston.........  2 4 0 .333 1-2 1-2 9 17 0 .346 6-7 1-6 2-4 3-7 L 1

Saint Louis....  1 4 0 .200 1-1 0-3 7 16 0 .286 7-7 0-9 0-0 3-7 L 1

Memphis.......  1 5 0 .167 1-2 0-3 12 9 0 .571 2-3 4-3 6-3 3-7 L 2

Cincinnati......  0 6 0 .000 0-0 0-6 3 20 0 .130 0-0 2-19 1-1 1-9 L 9

USF is still receiving four votes in the ESPN Baseball poll:

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/baseball/usatpoll.htm

USF is still receiving some votes in the The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Poll:

http://www.sportswriters.net/ncbwa/news/2004/poll040329.html

Here is an article from the Oracle today with some comments on the season by Coach Cardieri:

Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Sports

Bulls look for second win in Deland

By Thomas Simonetti

Staff Writer

March 30, 2004

After 16 straight home games, 12 of which the Bulls have won, USF baseball coach Eddie Cardieri is starting to talk about making the NCAA tournament.

USF (18-8, 4-2) travels to Stetson tonight for a 7 p.m. non-conference game. Cardieri said even though it is not a C-USA game, it is the type his team must win to get an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament.

"These midweek games are very important in terms of the at-large bids to the regionals," Cardieri said. "The teams that are going to be there at the end or on the bubble at the end are going to be teams like us and UCF and Stetson. That's who we play in the middle of the week so they are very important games."

The Bulls last made the NCAA tournament in 2002. Besides an at-large bid, a C-USA championship would also give USF an automatic bid into this year's tournament.

Cardieri said Chase Lirette would get the nod against the Hatters. The freshman from Tallahassee has pitched mainly in relief this season. In his only start Feb. 17 against Jacksonville, Lirette gave up three runs on six hits while striking out five for the win. After that start he was C-USA's Pitcher of the Week.

Lirette pitched 1 1/3 innings in relief in the 9-3 loss to Southern Miss on Sunday. He gave up one hit and struck out two on the outing. Stetson (17-10) is looking for a win after it lost both games of a double header Saturday against UCF. The Bulls beat Stetson 6-4 earlier in the season at Stetson in the Stetson Invitational but are only 2-4 on the road this season.

Catcher hot at the plate

Devin Ivany goes into tonight's game with a 12-game hit streak. The streak was extended Sunday when he belted a double down the third-base line. The junior is on the Johnny Bench Award watch list after he was a finalist for the award last season.

Another injury

First baseman Matt McHargue probably won't play tonight, Cardieri said. The sophomore pulled a hamstring Sunday against the Golden Eagles. McHargue's injury came after third baseman Jeff Baisley broke his foot three weeks ago. After McHargue came out of Sunday's game, Cardieri had to move some players around. Brian Baisley moved from third to first, and Jeremy Brand came off the bench to play third.

[bulls96go]

houston 9-17 rpi 43?

[Velcro]

they must have a killer OOC schedule

[Papa_Bull]

they must have a killer OOC schedule

Their SOS is #1 in the country which is what they had last year as well. But, they'll get passed over by the NCAA unless they have at least a winning record by the end of the year despite their RPI. You still need to win games to get to the dance. By comparison, our SOS at the moment is around #150.

[smazza]

it never hurts to play a great schedule

next AD really has to beef up all schedules on all teams