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Title: Hurt: UA baseball is on the right track Post by: pmull on May 22, 2011, 07:01:32 PM It would have been entertaining --and no doubt gratifying to the University of Alabama baseball team - if the Crimson Tide had managed to share the Southeastern Conference Western Division championship in a last-day train wreck of five teams, all with 14-16 records in the league.
Unfortunately for lovers of the quirky, Arkansas managed to scuttle that five-champions-out-of-six-teams scenario with a come-from-behind win over Ole Miss that made the Razorbacks the outright division champions at 15-15. But that hardly means that the season is over for Alabama. In fact, despite its many offensive limitations, the postseason might be just the place for the Crimson Tide to prosper. Mitch Gaspard's second team at UA was a good team, not a great one, and had plenty to overcome in terms of injuries and off-the-field adversity this year. The Crimson Tide's margin for error was extremely thin and against the very good, very talented teams, it showed. Perhaps the most revealing statistic when you look at Alabama's overall season. Against the SEC's three dominant teams - East Division powers Florida, Vanderbilt and South Carolina - Alabama went 1-8. Against the rest of the SEC, Alabama went 13-8. http://alabama.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1224191 |