I have not posted in a while. I lost faith I'm afraid. I thought Rice would end up as a two seed somewhere out of town.

I am still dazed that on Memorial Day Monday Rice was seeded 8, given a relatively easy regional and will host the Super Regional if we can take care of business this weekend.

We will be paired with the TCU regional, likely playing TCU if we win this weekend.

Frankly this is very amazing. The young men were able to win the C-USA tournament last weekend in MS. They lost the first game to UCF but won the next two, managed to be the section winner and played Houston for the championship. They came back in that one too to win the C-USA championship. This all despite having some absolutely horrible first innings.

This team is far from perfect. But they have managed to get clutch hitting and pitching to overcome fielding deficiencies. This team seems to start games slowly but come on strong in the end.

Tyler Duffey has to be given strong commendation for having some gutty relief pitching performances lately.

In addition to Rice getting a top national seeding three other C-USA teams got second seeds in other regionals. This is a very good showing for C-USA. These other teams had very good RPI's. So they must have done very well in their non-conference games, playing and beating strong teams.

Today we will play our first regional game at 6 PM. Come and watch. There will be tickets available.