Men Wins Needed for a 2025 At Large Bid

[rich1122]

We lost series against Creighton and Xavier. Couldn’t come close to Northeastern at home. Scheduling the tough teams early backfired.

 

[CTFanDan]

This is the wrong take. We went 23-2 to end the regular season. You’re not going 25-0, and losing to a Maine or Georgetown would have cancelled out beating Rutgers or Northeastern.

We’re not in because we started the season 0-3 against teams that ranged from mediocre to worse, and we never were fully able to dig out of that hole.

Down the stretch, UConn didn't really beat too many quality opponents and that is what hurt us.

 

[BugsyCT]

 

[NEforceUConn]

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That’s very impressive.

 

[Chin Diesel]

We need to get out of this conference ASAP. All sports are suffering.

While clearly a false statement on your end, the BE hurts the baseball program more than any other sport.

 

[SubbaBub]

I'm pretty sure the 13th SEC team is less deserving than the 2nd and 3rd Big East teams.

 

[UConnTrumbull]

While clearly a false statement on your end, the BE hurts the baseball program more than any other sport.

Who does it help? Womens bball wins in spite of the BE. Mens basketball does well but the conference barely gets 4 teams into the tourney.

 

[huskymedic]

Down the stretch, UConn didn't really beat too many quality opponents and that is what hurt us.

Selection Committee Chair agrees:



Injuries caught up in the end as well.

 

[CL82]

In the end, we were a very good hitting team that wasn't able to plate runs against good pitching. In retrospect that's not all that surprising. In a short series, pitching beats hitting.

If we had brought runs home any of the three times we loaded the bases yesterday, that probably would've been enough to get us across the line.

 

[scotty0330]

Yes. We have only been winning one national championship in hoops a year for the last three years. The sky is falling.

Look — do I agree that in the long term, primarily for football, we need to be in a major all sports conference? Yes. But can we all stop with the patently stupid statements?

Just because the basketball programs have won titles doesn’t mean the conference as a whole for athletics serves the university well. Outside of men’s hoops the catholic schools don’t bother trying to compete and therefore makes the statement valid

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I'm pretty sure the 13th SEC team is less deserving than the 2nd and 3rd Big East teams.

Probably true but we're going to have to get used to this.

Argument for the SEC is that their 13th team would far more often than not win against the second and third best BE teams. The argument against would be whether a team that far down the list in their own conference warrants consideration.

We're going to have to get used to the P4 (especially P2) squeezing everyone else down to as few opportunities as possible. The one thing that may offer a small amount of help to a school like ours is the B1G (in large part due to the two new LA schools) is pushing for a later start and end to the baseball season (to allow midwest B1G schools to be more competitive). They have sufficient clout to be at least listened to and all Northeast schools would benefit.

 

[buddy]

Yes. We have only been winning one national championship in hoops a year for the last three years. The sky is falling.

Look — do I agree that in the long term, primarily for football, we need to be in a major all sports conference? Yes. But can we all stop with the patently stupid statements?

That teams from "power conferences" with worse RPI than UConn got in as last four in, does speak for the weakness of the conference.

 

[buddy]

Coach needs to have a long chat with the pitchers. Say bye bye to many. They cost UConn this season.

 

[Jax Husky]

That Northeastern loss before the Maone series was likely the nail in the coffin.

 

[UConnTrumbull]

They’re not even pretending to hide it anymore

 

[JeannoCT]

When they showed the remaining teams waiting to see if they were in, UConn wasn't pictured. I figured they already knew they were not in.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[ATLDYKA]

This is the wrong take. We went 23-2 to end the regular season. You’re not going 25-0, and losing to a Maine or Georgetown would have cancelled out beating Rutgers or Northeastern.

We’re not in because we started the season 0-3 against teams that ranged from mediocre to worse, and we never were fully able to dig out of that hole.

0-3 to start season, but the only team that wasn't good in that group was Missouri and even they were capable being an SEC team that did sweep Texas A&M.

 

[How Sway?!]

Who does it help? Womens bball wins in spite of the BE. Mens basketball does well but the conference barely gets 4 teams into the tourney.

We don't win in 2023 without the BE. AJax would have been at Cuse and Adama at Seton Hall. The women's team also won in spite of the AAC so nothing has changed there. If anything, the BE provides a bigger challenge with the likes of Creighton and Marquette.

 

[CTFanDan]

Selection Committee agrees:

That's why I said what I did. Everybody was caught up with the number of wins UConn was racking up but in the back of my mind I thinking, yeah great they are winning but they aren't beating any good teams. They lost at home to Boston College, then Xavier took 2 out 3 from the Huskies. The following weekend lost 2 to Creighton. Finally UConn went on their run of winning 13 games but find me a team that provided them with a quality win. The following loss to Rutgers was their last game against a power 4 school and I said this was a big loss for the Huskies. Now maybe the win against Rhode Island looks a little better because they won their conferance but if it was it was slim. They had one more chance against Northeastern and Northeastern just happen to be the better Huskies that day. Finally fast forward to loosing once each to Xavier and Creighton and I guess that put the nail in the coffin as both schools win the head to head against the Huskies.

 

[rich1122]

We had a good run. Cards didn’t fall our way. Pitching crashes and burns and we’re 1 selection away.

Penders should continue the early tough schedule and hope for a couple more wins. Lots of young arms to evaluate in the summer leagues.

Just could never understand the pitching staff. Seems like guys regressed from summer and fall ball.

 

[Scoe]

I'm pretty sure the 13th SEC team is less deserving than the 2nd and 3rd Big East teams.

Probably true but we sure didn't help ourselves, having a victim mentality really doesn't help our cause. We need to dominate like Northeastern does, if the BE is so weak then dominate the conference.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[UConnTrumbull]

We don't win in 2023 without the BE. AJax would have been at Cuse and Adama at Seton Hall. The women's team also won in spite of the AAC so nothing has changed there. If anything, the BE provides a bigger challenge with the likes of Creighton and Marquette.

I agree that the BE is the best that we have. Because there’s no other choice.

 

[uconnbaseball]

Lots of SEC flairs on reddit complaining that we didn’t get in. Our program is getting far more respect than it used to.

A postseason run was unlikely this year. Bring back our bats, get some more pitching transfers (how are the Manhattan Jaspers doing?) and leave no doubt next year.