Mizzou baseball needs to make noise at SEC tourney - STLtoday.com
COLUMBIA, Mo. • A year ago Missouri’s baseball team was so bad the Tigers failed to qualify for the Southeastern Conference tournament. Mizzou lost its final 15 games against SEC opponents, finished 6-24 in the league and stayed home from the 12-team SEC tournament. This spring, the most improved team in the SEC struggled down the stretch again, and Mizzou might need the conference tournament to extend its season beyond this week. A win Tuesday could mean much more for Tim Jamieson’s Tigers, who are seeking their first NCAA tournament berth since 2012. Last week, the website D1Baseball. com projected Mizzou as a No. 3 seed in an NCAA regional in Iowa City, Iowa and listed the Tigers as one of the last five teams in the 64-team tournament. The NCAA tournament begins next week with 16 four-team regional sites in double elimination play. If the Tigers were on the NCAA bubble last week, their status should be more wobbly this week after losing two of three at home over the weekend to Kentucky, another NCAA bubble team. Just a few weeks ago Mizzou was the surprise team in the country, cracking the top 15 in the national polls and generating buzz as a possible regional host team. Then the schedule got gnarly: The Tigers were swept at Vanderbilt and Louisiana State, the top two seeds this week at Hoover. Source: www.stltoday.com
