Men UConn Baseball 2026

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Always like hearing about this event that always happens shortly before Thanksgiving.

 

[HookCfan]

They were posting IG stories at like 5am. Ouch!

 

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It is interesting that two of these captains for UConn baseball will be at different positions in the field in the coming season. During the fall exhibition games, Dalena played at 3B, and Minick moved from the infield to CF.

 

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[RitzLuce1]

I know it’s a subscriber article but inquiring minds must know. What was said in the clip of the explanation that is fueling them?

 

[HookCfan]

Connecticut coach Jim Penders still describes the Huskies’ 2025 NCAA Tournament miss as a kind of live virus vaccine, something unpleasant he willingly reintroduces into his system to prevent a relapse.
Saved on his phone is the antidote—a short clip of former NCAA Baseball Committee Chair Jay Artigues explaining why UConn, slotted at No. 41 in RPI with a 38-21 record, became the highest-ranked team excluded from the field.
“If you look at UConn, the Big East after the top three, it doesn’t have another team in the top 100 of RPI, and that kind of hurts them,” Artigues said. “UConn started out 13-7, then they won 25 of the last 29, but only seven of those games were against top 100 RPI teams … and UConn was 3-6 against the top teams in that conference.”
Penders listens to the clip every few weeks.
“I need to put the virus back in my body,” he said.
Penders has made sure his players have absorbed it too. He opened fall practices by playing the clip on Elliott Ballpark’s video board so returners and newcomers alike could feel the sting that accompanied their omission.
“We never want to feel it again,” Penders said.
That urgency guided an offseason defined by recalibration. That’s especially so on the mound, where UConn posted a 5.62 ERA and struggled to control the running game. This fall became a return to fundamentals rather than an exercise in advanced analysis. If a pitcher could not throw 12 of 20 fastballs for strikes in a bullpen session, he did not pitch in a scrimmage. A new throwing program to build arm stamina occupied the start of every practice. Staff members painted leadoff-distance markers into the infield dirt. According to Penders and pitching coach Joshua MacDonald, the results showed up quickly on both sides of the ball.

 

[rich1122]

Connecticut coach Jim Penders still describes the Huskies’ 2025 NCAA Tournament miss as a kind of live virus vaccine, something unpleasant he willingly reintroduces into his system to prevent a relapse.
Saved on his phone is the antidote—a short clip of former NCAA Baseball Committee Chair Jay Artigues explaining why UConn, slotted at No. 41 in RPI with a 38-21 record, became the highest-ranked team excluded from the field.
“If you look at UConn, the Big East after the top three, it doesn’t have another team in the top 100 of RPI, and that kind of hurts them,” Artigues said. “UConn started out 13-7, then they won 25 of the last 29, but only seven of those games were against top 100 RPI teams … and UConn was 3-6 against the top teams in that conference.”
Penders listens to the clip every few weeks.
“I need to put the virus back in my body,” he said.
Penders has made sure his players have absorbed it too. He opened fall practices by playing the clip on Elliott Ballpark’s video board so returners and newcomers alike could feel the sting that accompanied their omission.
“We never want to feel it again,” Penders said.
That urgency guided an offseason defined by recalibration. That’s especially so on the mound, where UConn posted a 5.62 ERA and struggled to control the running game. This fall became a return to fundamentals rather than an exercise in advanced analysis. If a pitcher could not throw 12 of 20 fastballs for strikes in a bullpen session, he did not pitch in a scrimmage. A new throwing program to build arm stamina occupied the start of every practice. Staff members painted leadoff-distance markers into the infield dirt. According to Penders and pitching coach Joshua MacDonald, the results showed up quickly on both sides of the ball.

I’m fired up already

 

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[dchusky905]

Consolidating what we know, per opponent schedule releases:

Feb 18 at Arizona State
Feb 20-23 (4 games) at Arizona
Feb 27-Mar 1 at UNC Wilmington
Mar 6-8 at Old Dominion
Mar 13-15 at Portland
Apr 7 at Bryant

Mar 10 vs BC
Apr 15 at BC
Apr 28 at Rutgers

 

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