{"id":3471,"date":"2011-06-01T05:50:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T10:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=3471"},"modified":"2011-06-01T05:50:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T10:50:56","slug":"will-georgia%e2%80%99s-tough-schedule-pay-dividends-in-the-2011-ncaa-corvallis-regional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2011\/06\/01\/will-georgia%e2%80%99s-tough-schedule-pay-dividends-in-the-2011-ncaa-corvallis-regional\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Georgia\u2019s tough schedule pay dividends in the 2011 NCAA Corvallis Regional?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s talk college baseball for a moment.  I started to write a full length feature Sunday about the Bulldogs\u2019 performance over the weekend in the SEC Tournament, but last weekend was all about racing, so I settled for a minor digression between racing action.  We open June with a college baseball quickie.<\/p>\n<p>The CSS commentators covering the Bulldogs games against Florida were right; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgiadogs.com\/sports\/m-basebl\/spec-rel\/053111aab.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.georgiadogs.com\/sports\/m-basebl\/spec-rel\/053111aab.html', 'Georgia\u2019s tough schedule');\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia\u2019s tough schedule<\/a> gave them instant NCAA appeal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After playing the nation\u2019s top-rated schedule to go with a fourth place finish in the SEC and reaching the semifinals of the SEC Tournament, Georgia had a No. 16 RPI and earned an NCAA at-large bid to the field of 64. Georgia played 35 games against teams in this year\u2019s NCAA Tournament, going 15-20. Also, the Bulldogs played an SEC-high 34 games versus ranked teams and led the SEC with 16 wins over top 25 clubs. The Bulldogs were road warriors, tallying an SEC-high 33 games away from home. Georgia has never faced Creighton or UALR, and it is 1-6 versus the Beavers. The Bulldogs will practice Wednesday morning and then depart for Corvallis in the afternoon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It remains to be seen if the Bulldogs are up to the challenge.  I like this team\u2019s spunk, but I do not really like the West Coast draw.  I think the Bulldogs finish second, which will not be enough to move on to the Super Regionals.  I sincerely hope this team proves me wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Go Dawgs!<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s talk college baseball for a moment. I started to write a full length feature Sunday about the Bulldogs\u2019 performance over the weekend in the SEC Tournament, but last weekend was all about racing, so I settled for a minor digression between racing action. We open June with a college baseball quickie. The CSS commentators &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2011\/06\/01\/will-georgia%e2%80%99s-tough-schedule-pay-dividends-in-the-2011-ncaa-corvallis-regional\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will Georgia\u2019s tough schedule pay dividends in the 2011 NCAA Corvallis Regional?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-3471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-uga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3472,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions\/3472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}