Kudos to Coastal on their championship!
The selection committee did all they could to stack the deck for the ACC and SEC this year. The ACC got 10 teams in, the SEC 7 and for the first time since the tournament expanded from 48 teams in 1999, the NCAA did not select any Pac-12 schools to host a regional, and Lubbock, Texas (Texas Tech) was the westernmost regional host city.
Despite having the odds in their favor not one ACC or SEC school made it to the CWS semifinals and 2 west coast schools, Arizona and UC Santa Barbara, made it to Omaha.
College baseball's reliance on the RPI does a major disservice to West Coast programs who, unlike their ACC and SEC counterparts, actually play tough teams during the mid-week. It is ridiculous that a team like Boston College, who finished under .500 in conference play, gets a bid to the CWS.
The article below provides good insight on how the RPI hurts West Coast schools while helping southern schools:
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/teams-716525-west-rpi.html
7 of the 8 super regional sites were hosted by ACC or SEC schools. (The 8th was B12 school Texas Tech hosting East Carolina)
In 5 of the 7, the ACC/SEC host lost to a school from a conference other than the ACC or SEC. (Coastal Carolina over LSU, UCSB over Louisville, Oklahoma State over South Carolina, Arizona over Mississippi State, and TCU over TAMU)
In the two in which the host school won (Florida and Miami), they beat a team from the ACC. (FSU and BC)
In Omaha, Florida and Miami both lost in their first two games and therefore were the first two teams eliminated from the CWS.
