Matt Zemek
 | UCLA Wire
UCLA baseball plays Texas-San Antonio in the NCAA Super Regionals this weekend. One has to wonder: Should the NCAA re-seed 16 teams for the supers and then re-seed again for the eight-team College World Series? College Sports Wire looked at the topic:
“Florida State is the No. 9 national seed. Oregon State is the No. 8 national seed. We have two teams which were the top seeds in their NCAA regionals this past weekend. Now one of them will be eliminated before Omaha. Re-seeding the bracket would put each of these national seeds against a lower-seeded opponent in the supers. Both teams would be rewarded for winning their regional. Basic common sense, right?
“If one team out of the 16 left in the field is being severely disadvantaged by the lack of re-seeding, it’s Florida State. The Seminoles have to fly across the country to Corvallis, in the Pacific Northwest, to play a higher-seeded team. Re-seeding would give Florida State a home regional and a much better setup. If other highly-seeded teams had won more of the regionals this past weekend, FSU might be asked to go on the road, but probably not to the West Coast.”
There is a lot to consider here. Basketball doesn’t re-seed before the Sweet 16 and the Final Four. Football doesn’t re-seed. Should this mean baseball has no obligation to be different, or is baseball unique enough that changes are warranted? We report, you decide.