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UConn and the 2019 AAC Baseball Championship Tournament

HuskyHawk said:
Some bubble team is really pissed as Cinci potentially takes their spot. Maybe UCF. Guess they should have won.
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I was thinking about this while grilling. UCF or Houston. The odd irony of a team potentially stealing a bid from a team or teams in the same conference. Haven't checked yet what else happened today, but it will be interesting to see if the AAC gets more than three teams into the NCAA tourney.
 
Alum86 said:
Scratch Dodd Stadium in Norwich. Probably get sent as a 2 or 3 to the home of one of the top 3 teams in the tourney
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Booooo.

That would be awesome if we can get that.
 
uconnbaseball said:
Our offense has been fine vs their best pitcher. Kersten just didn't have it today.
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This was the ultimate disaster scenario for UConn today. Penders has developed a lot of trust in Kersten, so he stayed with him longer than he would some others such as Jimmy Wang. And let's face it, Penders has only trusted two starters this season, Kersten and Feole. Kersten when on can just eat up innings. When he is off, he can serve up a game like this. So Kersten is kept in the game waiting for him to come around, and it gets worse. Eventually go to the bullpen and hope the next Colby Dunlop like appearance shows up. Only this time, the pitchers who are simply not that consistent are all having bad days. And what a bad day it was for them.

It all made for a wonderful day of grilling as our friends asked us what we had playing on the radio, and what the score was.
 
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huskymedic said:
Heading to work for 1500-2300. Will be down on updates till I get situated. Someone come out of the pen since @dbmill bailed on the #HookC to flip burgers. ;)
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Burgers, dogs, kielbasa, chicken, some assorted hockey pucks, and a few other odds and ends. Not sure if those hockey pucks tasted any better than what was happening in Florida today.
 
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Santos has been an absolute implosion this year
What the frig happened to this kid?
 
Alum86 said:
Scratch Dodd Stadium in Norwich. Probably get sent as a 2 or 3 to the home of one of the top 3 teams in the tourney
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I suspect that UConn put the host bid in to the NCAA sometime in April. By the time the bid it was made public through Dom Amore several days ago, it seemed to me to be very unlikely that it would happen, even if UConn had a shot at playing ECU in the AAC tourney. There was just too much ground to make up. You don't go from being a team on the brink of the bubble just after the South Florida series to hosting an NCAA regional just in a blink of an eye.
 
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gtcam said:
Santos has been an absolute implosion this year
What the frig happened to this kid?
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Well, it wasn't as if Avery Santos was relied upon last season, as he was coming off of Tommy John surgery. As for this season, at the beginning of the year the top three in the bullpen were considered Wallace, Dandeneau, and Gardner, with Santos the most likely hope to emerge as the next guy behind them. He got early opportunities, but It just never happened for him. He was never really effective against solid teams, and ended up moving to the back of the pack in the pen.
 
dbmill said:
I suspect that UConn put the host bid in to the NCAA sometime in April. By the time the bid it was made public through Dom Amore several days ago, it seemed to me to be very unlikely that it would happen, even if UConn had a shot at playing ECU in the AAC tourney. There was just too much ground to make up. You don't go from being a team on the brink of the bubble just after the South Florida series to hosting an NCAA regional just in a blink of an eye.
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It was btwn April 19th (site bid material avail.) and May 17th (deadline).
 
Bad day at the old ball park all around. Kersten just didn't have it today. Pen disintegrated. Hitting not clutch after the 3rd inning. Next week - Kersten will bounce back but what looked like a really deep pen has fallen into CJ, Wurster and Wallace. After that, it is a crap shoot. If the pen was deeper, I would feel good about getting out of the regional.
 
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There's some prominent coach on Twitter encouraging kids to stay in-state, citing 4 CT schools in conference championship games.
 
huskymedic said:
All-Tournament Team
P Jordan Spicer, UCF
P Jacob Wallace, UConn
P Kaleb Roper, Tulane
C Mitch Holding, Cincinnati
IF Joey Bellini, Cincinnati
IF Jace Mercer, Cincinnati
IF Chris Winkel, UConn
IF Mason O’Brien, Wichita State
OF AJ Bumpass, Cincinnati
OF Jeremy Johnson, Cincinnati
OF David VanVooren, Wichita State
UTY Wyatt Stapp, Cincinnati

Most Outstanding Player
OF AJ Bumpass, Cincinnati
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You know you are knocking the cover off the ball when you win a baseball tourney and have half the all tournament team and it does not include a (Cincy) pitcher. So much for good pitching stops good hitting.
 
hardcorehusky said:
Bad day at the old ball park all around. Kersten just didn't have it today. Pen disintegrated. Hitting not clutch after the 3rd inning. Next week - Kersten will bounce back but what looked like a really deep pen has fallen into CJ, Wurster and Wallace. After that, it is a crap shoot. If the pen was deeper, I would feel good about getting out of the regional.
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Crap shoot is the right word, inconsistent is another. Both conference tournaments and especially the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament are pretty much designed for teams with deeper pitching staffs. You either need a deeper bullpen then just having a totally reliable trio like Dandeneau, Wurster, and Wallace, or you need deeper dependable starting pitching than just Feole and Kersten. After all, in winning a regional you will play 3 to 5 games in four days, so you would need that many effective starters as well.
 
Butch said:
CCSU and QU won. Think the 4th team was Fairfield. We're being proclaimed a baseball state.
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Somebody forgot to tell that to our Huskies today. :eek:
 
What we did today was Rutgers like.

And let's not pretend it's not really really weird how good Cincinnati got from a year ago. They were swinging the bat a little too well for a .500 team this tournament.
 
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regional selection is a joke 6 schools from 1 conference?? but that is the NCAA for you. BB always has one from n or s Carolina and the acc is there
 
even with the final loss in the AAC championship game this year has been a season of ups and downs all season. our best starting pitching is sometimes good, the batting order has .100 hitters in it. the only consistent has been finish relief, too bad we don't have nine of them.
 
Palatine said:
Wow. Well the good news is that the Indy 500 was good and there was a little golf to change the channel to. I sure wish that wasn't nationally broadcast on ESPNews. Just a terrible showing by the boys. Every time I went back to the game it was worse, even when it couldn't get worse.
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Good to know you watched neither. Especially the Indy 500.
 
Alum86 said:
Scratch Dodd Stadium in Norwich. Probably get sent as a 2 or 3 to the home of one of the top 3 teams in the tourney
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You should've never held out hope for Dodd. It was never going to be considered, even if UCONN won yesterday.
 
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dbmill said:
I suspect that UConn put the host bid in to the NCAA sometime in April. By the time the bid it was made public through Dom Amore several days ago, it seemed to me to be very unlikely that it would happen, even if UConn had a shot at playing ECU in the AAC tourney. There was just too much ground to make up. You don't go from being a team on the brink of the bubble just after the South Florida series to hosting an NCAA regional just in a blink of an eye.
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Well as i've said all tournament, Dodd stadium was never going to be considered for hosting. I was told last year that off-campus site bids aren't considered unless there aren't enough on-campus bids submitted. Or the on-campus bids aren't "up to snuff".

Who UCONN played, or didn't play, in the tournament was not a factor.
 
jayfromfla said:
regional selection is a joke 6 schools from 1 conference?? but that is the NCAA for you. BB always has one from n or s Carolina and the acc is there
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16 regional hosts selected for 2019 DI baseball tournament | NCAA.com

3 ACC
3 Big 12
3 Pac 12
1 AAC
6 SEC

Funny thing is SEC gets all the publicity in the fall for its football, but baseball is where SEC really has depth. Plus, all their schools have AA or AAA quality stadiums available with no worries of conflict.

I don't have a problem with how they spread it out. It's not like the B1G or Big East are going to be hosting games.
 
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