Postseason baseball has returned to Swayze Field and Oxford, Miss. is prepared to erupt this weekend. Friday kicks off with the Rebels taking on No. 4 seed St. Louis Billikens and No. 2 Tennessee Tech facing No. 3 Missouri State.
Both TTU and MSU have piled up a lot of wins this season, but that’s come against weak competition. Tennessee Tech has only played five games against teams in the top 50 of the RPI and 38 of the 48 wins came against teams higher than 100. Yeah, they lead the nation in home runs (128), but they don’t pitch it particularly well (4.