Carolina starts the SEC tournament tonight against Mississippi State. You may recall that the Gamecocks just played a three game set against the Bulldogs and lost two of three. Tonight’s game will be on CSS or ESPN3 and will start 30 minutes after the Vandy – Texas A&M game concludes. The Dores and Aggies play at 5:30 eastern. USC will send their #1 pitcher, Nolan Belcher, to the mound.
This year’s SEC tournament has a new format. On the first day 8 teams play 4 games. The losers are eliminated, and the winners join the top 4 seeds in the main bracket. The 8 teams that remain are divided into two (predetermined) sides of 4. Those 4 teams play a traditional double elimination tournament with one exception. Usually the winner of the losers’ bracket must beat the winner of the winners’ bracket twice. In this tournament the winners of the brackets play once and that winner moves to the final. Clear as mud?
What the Gamecocks have to Win
What the Gamecocks have to Lose
- Trail the season series with Miss State 1-3
- Move to the Losers’ Bracket
- End their national seed hopes
- Threaten their hosting position. (They may have this sewn up, but if they go 0-2 and the other teams in consideration do well, they could conceivably lose their site.)
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