Men UConn in the 2024 NCAA Baseball Tournament > Norman Oklahoma Regional > HookC Advances to Super Regionals

[BugsyCT]

 

[Bomber36]

Someone please…come over and pinch me. I mean it, I haven’t moved yet.

 

[navery12]

That was a great win. Gotta finish the job the next 2 days now

 

[Bomber36]

Not a lot of time to celebrate. Eye on the prize. Penders has this handled.

 

[CL82]

What a crazy season! I'm loving the ride.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[hardcorehusky]

Grit, defense and great pitching. This team somehow since the BET has become a vintage UConn team.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[greenday61892]

Is the first time we've ever been in the catbird seat in a regional?!

 

[ATLDYKA]

Who do we pull for tomorrow? I say Duke, get the home team out. Didn't like how the ump was influenced by the crowd, he really squeezed the plate on us.

 

[LIUCHusky]

Is the first time we've ever been in the catbird seat in a regional?!

No

 

[huskymedic]

 

[greenday61892]

No

Oh wow I was somehow unaware we were there in the 2nd Super Regional year!

 

[ScottVib]

Is the first time we've ever been in the catbird seat in a regional?!

They were 2-0 in the Maryland regional in 2022 (needed the second game to polish off the Terps in the regional final)

 

[greenday61892]

Or not "unaware," maybe forgot is better, I'm sure I watched or listened to that game.

 

[scotty0330]

Here’s too a competitive game tomorrow where both Duke and OU exhaust most of their pen.

Hell of an outing by Quigs. He mixed his pitches well and Hyde did a nice job receiving and keeping him grounded.

 

[huskymedic]

Assisted access <<

 

[maple]

I listened to the game on the radio while watching USA v Canada to open the T20 Cricket WC.

Both UConn and USA pulled off the win in very nice fashion. What a fantastic Saturday evening for sports.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Here’s too a competitive game tomorrow where both Duke and OU exhaust most of their pen.

Hell of an outing by Quigs. He mixed his pitches well and Hyde did a nice job receiving and keeping him grounded.

Yeah, in a perfect world the game goes 35 innings and the winner will need to use their backup shortstop as their starting pitcher tomorrow night.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[huskymedic]

 

[greenday61892]

Here’s too a competitive game tomorrow where both Duke and OU exhaust most of their pen.

Hell of an outing by Quigs. He mixed his pitches well and Hyde did a nice job receiving and keeping him grounded.

I want them to be as tired as possible! Cuz our game is just a couple hours or so later right?

 

[Jimdish255]

I listened to the game on the radio while watching USA v Canada to open the T20 Cricket WC.

Both UConn and USA pulled off the win in very nice fashion. What a fantastic Saturday evening for sports.

Wait! We have a cricket team?

 

[mets1090]

I want them to be as tired as possible! Cuz our game is just a couple hours or so later right?

Duke vs Oklahoma is at 3 eastern. UConn plays the winner at 9, so they'll get a few hours off between games.

You never really know how relievers will respond to pitching 3+ hours apart, which ends up being the main concern. Obviously anyone who throws 40+ pitches in the afternoon game you'd expect to not be available at night, though in the NCAA tournament some crazy stuff happens in terms of abusing arms by professional standards - just look at starters going 120+ pitches which happens this time every year. For most of these kids, their baseball days are done after college so any kind of conventional logic pretty much goes out the window in that regard.

The most important thing is UConn should have every pitcher available tomorrow outside of Cooke and Quigley. Plus in a scenario where UConn is down a few runs they can choose to save some bullets by not using Quinn/Afthim to have them be fresh for Monday, while the other team can't really afford the same luxury.

 

[Viet Vet]

Will Bristol flip us the bird again with our Regional Final on ESPN+?