Men Wins Needed for a 2025 At Large Bid

[greenday61892]

Holy-- wtf a BC fan siding with UConn?!

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Must be true now:

Talk about being a day late and a dollar short.

 

[CL82]

Talk about being a day late and a dollar short.

It's DiMauro. A day late and a dollar short is his A game.

 

[rich1122]

Then we’ll continue plucking D3 grad transfers and make the best of it I suppose.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[HookC22]

I appreciate his support and even Bill O'Conner's speaking up for us. My one nitpick is you cant be in the top 64, you need to be somewhere in the top 30ish since there are 35 automatic bids.

 

[dvegas]

Of the at large bids, Ok St. irritates me the most. 28-23 (played only 51 games with 5 cancellations). Of 5 games cancelled, two were against the West Virginia, the top team in the Big 12. Only 17 away games (5-12).

Ok.State proved they didn't deserve it tonight. Would have loved that slot for UConn and a shot at Duke . Northeastern had a bad night (lost to a "last 4 in" KSU), huge win for Columbia at Southern Miss (bit of an academic disparity in that matchup ), and CCSU didn't embarrass themselves @ Auburn.

 

[PASTE04038!]

Ok.State proved they didn't deserve it tonight. Would have loved that slot for UConn and a shot at Duke . Northeastern had a bad night (lost to a "last 4 in" KSU), huge win for Columbia at Southern Miss (bit of an academic disparity in that matchup ), and CCSU didn't embarrass themselves @ Auburn.

3 of the 4 teams we should have gotten in in front of lost. Only Miami won

 

[huskymedic]

From Dom Amore’s Sunday Read column:

-> Last word

It’s a fact of life on the bubble that UConn was squeezed out of the NCAA baseball tournament last week. The Huskies, 38-21 with seven Quad 1 wins, were worthy of inclusion, but at-large berths became scarce. A couple of wins against the right opponents would’ve made a difference, maybe. But why did bids become so scarce? That’s the issue. While I understand how strong the power conferences are in baseball, the regular season and conference tournaments should serve as some process of elimination. Teams have all season to play their way into the top half of their conference.

The SEC got 13 of its 18 teams in the field of 64. Of course, the metrics are going to skew in favor of all teams in that conference, because they play each other. But if a team finishes below .500 in those games, why is it owed a chance to play for a national championship? Teams finishing out of the top half of any conference should be at the back of the line for at-large bids, not the front, no matter their RPI or strength of schedule.

And here is my annual reminder, too, that the NCAA should be looking for ways to grow college baseball in the Northeast and upper Midwest, such as placing a few neutral site regionals in ideal Double A and Triple A ballparks. Instead, they find ways to exclude large, baseball-loving sections of the country. <-

 

[BugsyCT]

CCSU had a respectable effort against #4 Auburn but a couple 4 run innings by AU killed them. Now they have NC State today in an elimination game because Stetson hammered NCSt yesterday.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[huskymedic]

AD David Benedict spends a few minutes of time talking about the challenges of Big East Baseball @ 27:15 mark. Kudos to @gwhuskyfan for raising the subject.