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Men Wins Needed for a 2025 At Large Bid

huskymedic said:
Selection Committee Chair agrees:



Injuries caught up in the end as well.
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As much as it hurts, the committee is right. Plus we lost 2 of 2 to Northeastern, split with BC, lost to Rutgers. Our run against the dregs of the Big East was irrelevant. Had we done better against the only other BE teams worth a damn ( Creighton and Xavier; can we all acknowledge the rest of BE baseball is crap) we might have prevailed. Our early season wins against Miami (x2), Vanderbilt and UNC were more than offset by a woeful strength-of-schedule and bad losses.

One win against Creighton in the BE final might would have pushed us over the top. We failed………and suffered the consequences.
 
Bomber36 said:
It was a hose job. On to next year.
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Do we play the likes of Vanderbilt, Georgia.
Texas, Florida, Kentucky, Ole Miss, Mississippi State…… North Carolina, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Clemson, Wake Forest?

No, we don’t, (albeit
through no fault of our own, since we are in a lousy baseball conference). So………we cannot lose to the likes of Rutgers, BC, Northeastern (twice), Xavier (four times), Creighton (three times), and expect a lousy out-of-conference schedule to be ignored.

We can gripe all day about P4 bias, but we must negotiate the landscape as it is, not how we’d like it to be.
 
My 3 thoughts:

1. If our entire identity is "Northeast grit" and woe is us that we have an impossible situation being a northeast team so we will out grind you with lesser heralded players, you cannot allow 3 northeast schools (Northeastern, BC, Rutgers) come into your home field and smack you around. That goes against the DNA in which you built the program on. Many of those teams had better players than we did at key positions. Some were tougher than we are. We cannot afford to let that happen coming off 2 super regional appearances and a brand new stadium/facilities. We need to upgrade the talent especially the pitching if we want to avoid what happened this year. The pitching is simply not of quality depth and rarely is. Even our tournament teams have gotten embarrassed from a pitching standpoint (28 runs in 1 NCAA game to Notre Dame, 24 runs in game 1 vs FSU last year).

We got off to a meandering and lackluster start. 0-3 in Puerto Rico against OK competition. Gave up a zillion runs to Florida Atlantic. Gave away 2 games vs Campbell. Got blown out vs BC and Northeastern during the week. Put us in an impossible hole.

The only answer is to improve the talent in pitching. It's simply not strong or deep enough. I don't know if they have the NIL to compete for better arms.

2. We deserved to be in over Miami, Kentucky, and Oklahoma St. We didn't get in because we have 2 super conferences, 2 conferences afraid to upset those super conferences, and everyone else afraid to upset the "power" 4 conferences. That includes UConn BTW. Not to mention regional bias especially in a sport like baseball.

3. No one appears to be willing to challenge or call out this cycle so it's hard to even get upset anymore when teams get screwed over. Instead we will have to live through the WOW THE SEC SENT 14 TEAMS THE THE TOURNAMENT tweets for _____ sport. This is the future people seem content with so it's what we will get.
 
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Viet Vet said:
As much as it hurts, the committee is right. Plus we lost 2 of 2 to Northeastern, split with BC, lost to Rutgers. Our run against the dregs of the Big East was irrelevant. Had we done better against the only other BE teams worth a damn ( Creighton and Xavier; can we all acknowledge the rest of BE baseball is crap) we might have prevailed. Our early season wins against Miami (x2), Vanderbilt and UNC were more than offset by a woeful strength-of-schedule and bad losses.

One win against Creighton in the BE final might would have pushed us over the top. We failed………and suffered the consequences.
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Nah. We should have won more of those but this is just the usual favoritism towards to P4 conferences. The Big East is a death sentence.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Nah. We should have won more of those but this is just the usual favoritism towards to P4 conferences. The Big East is a death sentence.
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Yes, you make my case. Die a slow death in this crap conference or move on, whatever it takes. In five years we will be joining the big boys or reliving our Yankee Conference days.
 
ATLDYKA said:
Funny thing is we were supposed to play OK State the last 3 games at home instead of Maine. But due to conference realignment is was cancelled. Ok State was one of the last 4 in. Think what could have been if those games were played in Storrs.
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I was thinking the same thing. If UConn played Oklahoma ST instead of Maine and won the series then maybe that would have gotten them over the hump and in.
 
Head to head... you decide.
 

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Viet Vet said:
As much as it hurts, the committee is right. Plus we lost 2 of 2 to Northeastern, split with BC, lost to Rutgers. Our run against the dregs of the Big East was irrelevant. Had we done better against the only other BE teams worth a damn ( Creighton and Xavier; can we all acknowledge the rest of BE baseball is crap) we might have prevailed. Our early season wins against Miami (x2), Vanderbilt and UNC were more than offset by a woeful strength-of-schedule and bad losses.

One win against Creighton in the BE final might would have pushed us over the top. We failed………and suffered the consequences.
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The committee is crooked. The selection was rigged. Stolen from UConn and/or Xavier. In addition, all this talk of RPI is clearly meaningless when lower ranked teams get in.
 
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No margin for error. That’s the way it is. We had plenty of error.
 
After thinking about this years snub and reading the comments of those who follow baseball year-round and those that chime in for the NCAA tournament, I have come to the following conclusion:
We(and Xavier) should have been in the tournament. The bottom of the Big East is a consistent anchor toward RPI. However, we did not take care of business when necessary. The Rutgers loss, the first game against Xavier, are 2 examples of blown leads. This team was flawed, and injuries hurt the pitching staff and depth. If UConn's BAD year is first 4 out with the way the baseball committee does its work, then we are pretty good and as fans, should enjoy the ride. Yes it was a frustrating year when opportunity slipped away. But, the future is bright, and Penders and his staff know how to build and rebuild.
Let's support them with NIL money, attend games and root hard. I have a feeling UConn will make some damage next year in this tournament.
 
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Viet Vet said:
Do we play the likes of Vanderbilt, Georgia.
Texas, Florida, Kentucky, Ole Miss, Mississippi State…… North Carolina, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Clemson, Wake Forest?

No, we don’t, (albeit
through no fault of our own, since we are in a lousy baseball conference). So………we cannot lose to the likes of Rutgers, BC, Northeastern (twice), Xavier (four times), Creighton (three times), and expect a lousy out-of-conference schedule to be ignored.

We can gripe all day about P4 bias, but we must negotiate the landscape as it is, not how we’d like it to be.
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Northeastern is a very good team. I’d be surprised if they didn’t make it to the super regional. I will certainly be watching and rooting them on. As far as the other teams you mentioned, only BC had a bad year. The others had good years and were rated well in the RPI. UConn deserved a bid and for fans of the university to think otherwise is just wrong and a bit puzzling. There may be some hate for UConn because of our success in basketball. That’s the only reason I could see for the powers that be wanting to screw us. It just makes me want another Natty or two in hoops even more. The heck with them…we are UConn! Otherwise, it’s hard for me to understand how you leave out a team that plays their first 20 or so games every year on the road and still manages to win 38 games. Come on. We got screwed. End of story. Just my opinion, of course. I don’t really care who agrees or disagrees with it.
 
Viet Vet said:
Do we play the likes of Vanderbilt, Georgia.
Texas, Florida, Kentucky, Ole Miss, Mississippi State…… North Carolina, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Clemson, Wake Forest?

No, we don’t, (albeit
through no fault of our own, since we are in a lousy baseball conference). So………we cannot lose to the likes of Rutgers, BC, Northeastern (twice), Xavier (four times), Creighton (three times), and expect a lousy out-of-conference schedule to be ignored.

We can gripe all day about P4 bias, but we must negotiate the landscape as it is, not how we’d like it to be.
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More an indication that the BE is a one sport conference and sadly that may not last long...
 
Need the answer to how many bid busters there were this year versus last year to see how bad we got screwed. I thought we got a break last year going 0-2 in BET. I know Nebraska and ECU stole bids and there were 3? others. And yes, the conference makeup of the last 4 out versus the last 4 in is glaring this year.
 
Rdkid said:
Need the answer to how many bid busters there were this year versus last year to see how bad we got screwed. I thought we got a break last year going 0-2 in BET. I know Nebraska and ECU stole bids and there were 3? others. And yes, the conference makeup of the last 4 out versus the last 4 in is glaring this year.
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