Men UConn NCAA Baseball Selection Show (5/31 @ Noon)

[huskymedic]

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“The three tournament teams from Connecticut have a total of 60 players from state high schools: Central with 29, UConn with 17 and Fairfield with 14.”

 

[Skiblets]

Haven’t seen this question. Best seeding ever or was Springers team seeded higher

 

[huskymedic]

Haven’t seen this question. Best seeding ever or was Springers team seeded higher

They were a 2 seed in 2010 & 2011 as well.

 

[Dooooooomed]

They were a 2 seed in 2010 & 2011 as well.

And 2018. 3 seed Washington beat us twice on their way to Omaha.

 

[huskymedic]

And 2018. 3 seed Washington beat us twice on their way to Omaha.

You’re right - I was just talking about the Springer teams.

 

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[huskymedic]

UConn — The Huskies are headed to their third consecutive NCAA tournament after defeating Xavier in the Big East championship. But this was the first time UConn won both the regular season and tournament conference titles. While UConn has some players with pop, keep your eyes on Kyler Fedko, who hit .411 with 13 doubles, 13 home runs and an impressive 1.192 OPS.

Central Michigan — The Chippewas enter the tournament with a lot of momentum, winners of their last eight games including the season-ending sweep of Toledo to lock up the Mid-American. That is their second MAC title in a row, heading to the tournament in 2019 as well. The last time Central Michigan went to the tournament in back-to-back years was 1994-95. It's been a long time coming.

Michigan — It's been a while, so here's a reminder that the Wolverines are the defending runners-up after their thrilling run to the finals in 2019. That was a veteran team, and a mere two years later, most of those faces are gone. That magical team helped Michigan return to the College World Series for the first time since 1984. The Wolverines are hoping to make back-to-back trips to Omaha, just like those 1983-84 teams did.

Notre Dame* — The surprise season keeps going for the Fighting Irish, who are hosting a regional tournament for the first time since 2004 as the No. 10 national seed. This is quite a turnaround for a team that finished 24-30 in their last full season. It is the 22nd appearance all-time for Notre Dame as they look to get back to Omaha for the first time since 2002. That same year, Notre Dame was a host school.

 

[Husker Husky]

As my name implies, I root for 2 team:

UConn: Lived in Ct for 20+ years, married to a Husky. LOVE their draw. I think they have a very good chance to advance to the SR.

Nebraska: Lived there for the last 22 years. Vomited when I saw their draw. The NCAA took the 18/19/20 ranked team, that won the Big 10 regular season and finished the season by taking 2 from Michigan while going 11-2 over their last 13 games, and seeded them 32nd, sending them to play Arkansas. WTF? I see 3 possible reasons: 1) they looked geographically, For integrity purposes, I hope it was this, 2) The wanted to bitch slap the Big 10 for treating baseball as the red headed step child. and especially their worthless Commissioner, Kevin Warren for essentially making every wrong decision in from of him since the day he took over, or 3) They joined the Big 10 in punishing Nebraska (as the Big 10 has been doing) for pushing for football when Warren and the Big 10 wanted to hide under their beds last year. I'm hoping that the Huskers, in the words of former UConn great Khalid El-Amin "Shock the World!" and I get to see both the Husky's and Huskers here in Omaha in a few weeks.

 

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[HookC22]

I guess I haven't paid attention but did we stop wearing the red lid? Back in 2011 we added the alternates with the two white front panels for a few years.

 

[Rocko52]

We still have red bills, I've seen them plenty of times. From early in the season during the non-conference expeditions, to some of the later away games, we still sport them. And plenty of fans sported them in person in the final regular series vs Seton Hall. I grabbed one from the clearance rack along with my blue home Hook C cap. (Aside, was kinda funny that on the day of the only opportunity to go to Elliot Ballpark in person, at the UConn store the only Hook C caps were in a small clearance section out of the way. There was a huge entire wall of hats and lids, but none of them were Hook C.)

 

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[huskymedic]

That sucks for the kid…

 

[Guapo]

Honestly, to be the real shocker was Georgia with an RPI in the 30's getting left out when they went to Vandy and won 2 out of 3 and also won a game at Florida and at Ole Miss. I would think they would've got in over LSU. I think announcing the retirement of the LSU coach at the time they announced it was purely strategical and it worked. Michigan in with an RPI of 88 is crazy, but since we play them, we'll take it. Now just beat them.

LSU getting in over Georgia is absurd.

 

[businesslawyer]

Notre Dame lost two of three to FSU ( @ South Bend) this season....

My impression...The Irish will have real problems with the number one UConn pitcher...the problem always is...which team can can have their better pitchers to throw in game two.

To gamble or not..hold back on Michigan...or throw your best pitcher.

That's a theoretical question of no practical import for UConn. We don't even know whether Penders considers Peterson or Casparius his #1, and there was no material difference in their bodies of work over the course of the season. Yes, Casparius by all reports is the better pro prospect, but that and 15 bucks will get you over the George Washington Bridge.

 

[uconnbaseball]

This is an unusual year for RPI because of the cut back in OOC and "cross pollination"...for sure. And the Committee appears to have seeded teams on RPI.

And yeah...fans of some teams aren't happy....

Pitt went 18-12 vs. teams in the tourney...2nd most such wins behind Arkansas...4th most Quad 1 wins nationally...they didn’t get in.

That was terrible. Covid messed them up at the end of the year but they played a brutal schedule. I recall a 30-27 UCLA team getting in over UConn in a year we deserved to be in, and UCLA did not have the quality wins Pitt had. Bama was a joke.

 

[billybud]

And while the ACC coaches were assured by the Selection Committee before the season that RPI wasn't going to be leaned on as much as it has been in the past, Martin Jr. said it certainly appears like the committee used the RPI and little else.

Mike Martin Jr. doesn't mince words...

After the field was announced, Martin Jr. was asked what he thought of the selection process as a whole in 2021.

"Besides laughable?" Martin Jr. said. "I really don't know what to say. I know there are a lot of folks that are shaking their heads. Things don't make sense. Survive and advance. That's what it's all about from here on out. ... But there are a lot of teams that are shaking their heads. We're not. We're fine. We're in. ...

"But that old saying, 'When you don't think it's about politics, it is.' I can promise you that."

I think that Mike Martin Jr. was just taking it up for his old roster mate, who is now the Pitt coach.

 

[billybud]

Which one of the 16 hosting teams had a worse RPI than Nebraska"s 42 ?

Heck...The Committee pretty much rolled down the RPI rankings...But.Notre Dame did win the ACC by 4 1/2 games.