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[hardcorehusky]

As for the Big East this season, there is no question St. John's and Seton Hall are certainly not as good as they have been in the past. Considering St. John's and Seton Hall are usually two of the better teams in the Big East, this is certainly a disappointment. On the other hand, while I would hardly call Villanova and Georgetown great teams, they are both doing better this season than they normally do. Both those schools are usually at the back end of the Big East standings and the RPI for that matter, but that is not the case at least for this season.

While Big East teams generally had a horrible start to this season, it seems to me that conference teams have picked it up some and are not quite as bad as everyone makes them out to be. Still, even with saying that, the Big East is hardly a big threat at this point to have multiple teams make the NCAA Tournament with any sort of consistency.

As for scheduling, from listening to Chris Jones during the broadcast of UConn baseball game, it seems that scheduling for upcoming seasons starts a few years in advance. Obviously, tinkering with the schedule keeps on going up until the schedule for a coming season gets released.

By the way, those thinking the league is a cakewalk, check out Creighton. They have turned it around and besides being 6-0 in the league, are 21-8 overall.

 

[gtcam]

One can only hope that a very strong UConn baseball team will hopefully increase talent across the board in the NBE in the next few seasons

 

[dbmill]

By the way, those thinking the league is a cakewalk, check out Creighton. They have turned it around and besides being 6-0 in the league, are 21-8 overall.

I was going to mention that both Creighton and Xavier are currently in the top 100 RPI, and that Creighton is currently just behind UConn in the RPI. Both Villanova and Georgetown are in the top 150 RPI, so for a change of pace this season it would seem they have competitive teams as well, at least for this season.

 

[UConnRock]

Cheering for Creighton tonight and tomorrow. They somehow got 2 home games against Arizona in the middle of conference play. A win or two would help with the conference credibility. Of course UConn goes to California and beats USC, but it happens to be a year when USC is at the bottom of the PAC-12. 1st Creighton-AZ game is scoreless in the top of the 7th

 

[businesslawyer]

Hosting as a 2 is a heck of a lot better than not hosting as a 2.

 

[huskypantz]

Hosting as a 2 is a heck of a lot better than not hosting as a 2.

Would not be the first time......

 

[ucjoet]

Crazy game yesterday, after being down 5-0, did not expect to win by 17 runs. Big game today away vs BC. Lets keep winning.

Go Huskies !!!

current record........... season goal
16- 5 / .762% ........ 11 - 10 / .524% - Out of Conference
7 - 2 / .778 ......... 11 - 3 / .785 - New England
6 - 0 / 1.000 ......... 15 - 6 / .714 - Big East regular season
0 - 0 / .000 ......... 3 - 2 / .600 - Big East tourney

Post season Criteria
(1) 29 - 7 / .806 ...... 40 - 21 / .655
(2) 59 ....... < 50 RPI
(3) 1 st (tied) ........ Top 2 Big East
Something More Aggressive

current record ......................season goal
(1) 29 - 7 / .806 ...... 46 - 14 / .766
(2) 59 ....... < 30 RPI
(3) 15 ........ < 20 poll

 

[huskymedic]

 

[huskymedic]

2022 NCAA Baseball Tournament Projected Field Of 64 (4/20/22)

A look at our projected field of 64 with less than six weeks left in the regular season.

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Baseball America projecting UConn as the 3 seed in Coral Gables Regional

1. (2) Miami*^

2. UCLA

3. Connecticut*

4. Delaware State*

 

[huskymedic]

2022 Field Of 64 Projections: April 20 • D1Baseball

Two weeks after our midseason projections, there's plenty of upheaval in our latest postseason Field of 64.

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D1Baseball also has UConn as the 3 seed in Coral Gables but w/ #2 LSU and #4 Fairleigh Dickinson.

CORAL GABLES

1 Miami* (2)

4 Fairleigh Dickinson*

2 LSU

3 Connecticut*

 

[freescooter]

“Whither over time” lol. That’s a classic scooter-ism. He’s always predicting doom just over the horizon so that he can’t be held accountable for it.

Yeah. It is extremely difficult for a program to keep playing at a level that is significantly above that of their conference I think. Lots of reasons for it. And really among New Big East schools, who cares about baseball? Marginally I guess you could make a case that Creighton does, but that is about it. It is just too hard when the last half of your schedule is just pretending. It is really hard in any sport. And truth be told the NEWBIE schools only care about basketball. They don’t support other programs. And they don’t have good teams. If they could figure out a way to not put any other teams on the field they would. The can’t so they go through the motions. FWIW, I’m not knocking UConn’s program. They have a good team this year but drew a bad hand in their scheduling Outside the league. Given that it’s baseball, that could be a huge problem for the tournament if they were to get upset in the NBE Tournament. And unlike other sports, baseball is the most susceptible to upsets.

 

[CL82]

Yeah. It is extremely difficult for a program to keep playing at a level that is significantly above that of their conference I think. Lots of reasons for it. And really among New Big East schools, who cares about baseball? Marginally I guess you could make a case that Creighton does, but that is about it. It is just too hard when the last half of your schedule is just pretending. It is really hard in any sport. And truth be told the NEWBIE schools only care about basketball. They don’t support other programs. And they don’t have good teams. If they could figure out a way to not put any other teams on the field they would. The can’t so they go through the motions. FWIW, I’m not knocking UConn’s program. They have a good team this year but drew a bad hand in their scheduling Outside the league. Given that it’s baseball, that could be a huge problem for the tournament if they were to get upset in the NBE Tournament. And unlike other sports, baseball is the most susceptible to upsets.

 

[uconnsouth]

It’s gotta be tough for Penders to schedule non conference games early too.

Which southern big schools want to see pesky Connecticut come down and take 2 of 3 from you before beginning their tough conference schedules??

 

[Samoo]

It’s gotta be tough for Penders to schedule non conference games early too.

Which southern big schools want to see pesky Connecticut come down and take 2 of 3 from you before beginning their tough conference schedules??

From a selfish standpoint I'd like to see them come west and play the beavers. It's an hour drive for me to Corvallis.

 

[ucjoet]

Always nice beating BC in any sport. What a great job by Cooke. Goes 8 innings giving up only 1 hit and 2 walks, with 7 K's. That is a big-time performance. With the win our chart is all green, except for RPI.

Go Huskies !!!

current record........... season goal
16- 5 / .762% ........ 11 - 10 / .524% - Out of Conference
8 - 2 / .800 ......... 11 - 3 / .785 - New England
6 - 0 / 1.000 ......... 15 - 6 / .714 - Big East regular season
0 - 0 / .000 ......... 3 - 2 / .600 - Big East tourney

Post season Criteria
(1) 30 - 7 / .811 ...... 40 - 21 / .655
(2) 57 ....... < 50 RPI
(3) 1 st (tied) ........ Top 2 Big East


Something More Aggressive

current record ......................season goal
(1) 30 - 7 / .806 ...... 46 - 14 / .766
(2) 57 ....... < 30 RPI
(3) 15 ........ < 20 poll

 

[hardcorehusky]

2 and 1 vs ACC. That Louisville win looks good.

 

[Jimdish255]

It’s gotta be tough for Penders to schedule non conference games early too.

Which southern big schools want to see pesky Connecticut come down and take 2 of 3 from you before beginning their tough conference schedules??

I know nothing about these teams but just browsing schedules I see a team like Florida with a lot of good wins but a couple of series where they seemed to come out flat. Still overall really good. At the risk of jinxxing us Georgia on the other hand, not as impressive and feasting on mediocre competition. Am I way off on this?

 

[Guapo]

Man, if UConn actually ends up being a 3 seed, the other teams in those regions are gonna be pissed

 

[Bomber36]

Princeton beat Rutgers last night. Any loss we might have the rest of the year won’t be as bad as that one.

 

[dbmill]

Princeton beat Rutgers last night. Any loss we might have the rest of the year won’t be as bad as that one.

That's baseball for you. Just can't have the same expectations of winning all the time with a good team over bad teams, as it just doesn't happen like that in baseball. Princeton after that win over Rutgers currently has an RPI of 276, so it is certainly an ouch for Rutgers, but things like that happen in baseball.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Is it at all realistic to think we can enter the conference tournament with single digit losses?

 

[businesslawyer]

2 and 1 vs ACC. That Louisville win looks good.

3-1 versus the power conferences. If you include the AAC in that, 4-1.

 

[ucjoet]

Another win to open a series. Peterson was fantastic. Going 8 1/3 giving up 5 hits , 2 walks with 7 K's. Our starting pitching has been pretty extraordinary the whole year. I am pretty much resigned to the fact we will not host a regional as a 1seed. But not giving up on hosting as a 2 seed. Lets win the series today.

Go Huskies !!!

current record........... season goal
16- 5 / .762% ........ 11 - 10 / .524% - Out of Conference
8 - 2 / .800 ......... 11 - 3 / .785 - New England
7 - 0 / 1.000 ......... 15 - 6 / .714 - Big East regular season
0 - 0 / .000 ......... 3 - 2 / .600 - Big East tourney

Post season Criteria
(1) 31 - 7 / .816 ...... 40 - 21 / .655
(2) 58 ....... < 50 RPI
(3) 1 st (tied) ........ Top 2 Big East


Something More Aggressive

current record ......................season goal
(1) 31 - 7 / .816 ...... 46 - 14 / .766
(2) 58 ....... < 30 RPI
(3) 15 ........ < 20 poll

 

[kingdobbs]

Gotta say, any other year, a non conference schedule with Pepperdine, LBSU, USC, USF, Louisville would probably be worth much more RPI wise.

 

[huskymedic]

Gotta say, any other year, a non conference schedule with Pepperdine, LBSU, USC, USF, Louisville would probably be worth much more RPI wise.

Folks really can’t fault Penders for his schedule design this year. The folks complaining about SOS really don’t follow college baseball that closely.

 

[dbmill]

Gotta say, any other year, a non conference schedule with Pepperdine, LBSU, USC, USF, Louisville would probably be worth much more RPI wise.

I would also include Rhode Island, Kent State, FIU, and Bryant among others on this list.

 

[kingdobbs]

I would also include Rhode Island, Kent State, FIU, and Bryant among others on this list.

The ones I mentioned are the ones that the talky talkers are going to be drawn to first, though, were any of them having good years.

 

[huskymedic]

D1Baseball Weekly Chat: April 25 • D1Baseball

Have questions about the latest Top 25 rankings and postseason picture, and more? Kendall Rogers and Aaron Fitt have answers.

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-> Matt: Not asking in a “why do you hate my team way”, but serious question. If UConn is in your top 20, why is it so low in bracket projection?

Kendall Rogers: Matt — Pretty easy answer — UCONN is a really good club that is being dragged down big-time by its league in terms of its RPI. I hate it for Jim Penders and Co., because that’s a pretty damn good club over there (even without Reggie Crawford). <-

 

[ucjoet]

For various reasons, I wasn't able to follow much of the games. We did win another series and have won 15 of last 17. Can't ask much more from the team. It does scare me a bit, that if we go on a short losing streak ( hopefully not) we will be a bubble team for an At large bid. Creighton does seem formidable, so they can give us trouble in BE tourney. It would be a shame if we get upset in BE tourney, that we possibly get left out.

All we can do is keep winning. Nobody is going to be happy to see us in their bracket.

Go Huskies !!!
current record........... season goal
16- 5 / .762% ........ 11 - 10 / .524% - Out of Conference
8 - 2 / .800 ......... 11 - 3 / .785 - New England
8 - 1 / .889 ......... 15 - 6 / .714 - Big East regular season
0 - 0 / .000 ......... 3 - 2 / .600 - Big East tourney

Post season Criteria
(1) 32 - 8 / .800 ...... 40 - 21 / .655
(2) 61 ....... < 50 RPI
(3) 1 st (tied) ........ Top 2 Big East

Something More Aggressive
current record ......................season goal
(1) 32 - 8 / .816 ...... 46 - 14 / .766
(2) 61 ....... < 30 RPI
(3) 15 ........ < 20 poll

 

[freescooter]

For various reasons, I wasn't able to follow much of the games. We did win another series and have won 15 of last 17. Can't ask much more from the team. It does scare me a bit, that if we go on a short losing streak ( hopefully not) we will be a bubble team for an At large bid. Creighton does seem formidable, so they can give us trouble in BE tourney. It would be a shame if we get upset in BE tourney, that we possibly get left out.

All we can do is keep winning. Nobody is going to be happy to see us in their bracket.

Go Huskies !!!
current record........... season goal
16- 5 / .762% ........ 11 - 10 / .524% - Out of Conference
8 - 2 / .800 ......... 11 - 3 / .785 - New England
8 - 1 / .889 ......... 15 - 6 / .714 - Big East regular season
0 - 0 / .000 ......... 3 - 2 / .600 - Big East tourney

Post season Criteria
(1) 32 - 8 / .800 ...... 40 - 21 / .655
(2) 61 ....... < 50 RPI
(3) 1 st (tied) ........ Top 2 Big East

Something More Aggressive
current record ......................season goal
(1) 32 - 8 / .816 ...... 46 - 14 / .766
(2) 61 ....... < 30 RPI
(3) 15 ........ < 20 poll

I’ve been saying this for 3 years now. I think we have been incredibly unfortunate in the non-conference portion of the schedule This year. Good teams have bad seasons and it seems like lots of them on our schedule are having them this year. I guess if we go 18-3 or something we are still in decent shape, but a couple of well pitched games by oppon3nt in the NBE could be a huge probl3m