Men Wins Needed for a 2025 At Large Bid

[greenday61892]

Sample comment from D1 Eric Sorenson (aka @Stitch_Head):

“They Got Snubbed: UConn. Last year it was Northeastern, sitting at No. 35 and not hearing their name called by Matt Schick on the Selection Show. This year, it’s the No. 41-ranked Huskies. It is extremely difficult to build an RPI that good when you are playing in the Northeast, where you are one of the few programs who really care about college baseball. I saw the Huskies beat No. 1 Vanderbilt earlier this season, so maybe I am a little biased on this one. But a team in the Snow Belt having an RPI that good should be rewarded. (I s’pose this goes for No. 39 Xavier as well).”

Ah, you rock, thank you!

 

[huskymedic]

 

[UConnTrumbull]

Gross propaganda

 

[huskymedic]

Gross propaganda

Baseball is @ 40 man roster but 11.7 scholarships maximum pre-House > 34 roster max w/ no maximum scholarships limit post - House.

 

[HartfordHank]

No to beat the stats to death, but here are the numbers:

OK St - 24 home games out of 51 played (47%)
UConn - 20 home games out of 59 played (34%)

Its not just the home games, but it is the rest that the pitching staff gets by playing 8 less games. Less scrambling to find arms for mid week games.

For Perspective:

Home Away
BC 23 29
Northeastern 24 27
UMass 19 29
Maine 15 36
Harvard 14 17
Yale 21 22

Tough for Northeast schools to play home games in February and most of March. Sometimes even April, especially for Maine. Most trave south for early season games in February and March. A reasonable number are often neutral site games.

 

[Rdkid]

Baseball is @ 40 man roster but 11.7 scholarships maximum pre-House > 34 roster max w/ no maximum scholarships limit post - House.

This is the real story when it comes down to it for baseball. It’s totally depressing, Add ASU to the pack who plan to fund 34 baseball scholarships. Some will have the dough to fund all sports, some will specialize, be mediocre and/or drop. Huskies will fund the big 3 and requisite women’s sports for Title 9. How well will baseball be backed? And we’re not even talking about NIL. It would be a cool thread to name the programs that will definitely fully fund baseball and what the ramifications will be. After all, only about 22-25 kids play much. 10 full scholarship kids hurt or riding the pine?

This is the trickle down of haves vs. have nots that will make this new system top heavy in all sports based upon conference dollars, history, politics, and donors.

 

[kobe]

Xavier, UConn NCAA Tournament Snubs Create Confusion For Mid-Majors

Y'know, fair play to BA, I just mentioned their hate-on for us but they actually did give us some coverage now recognizing we were snubbed.

confusion for who?

it spreads.

 

[rich1122]

UConn seems to be on everyone's snub list. Wonder if the brick that's the Px will always be the scale tipper.

UCONN basketball spoils their party. They hate our National Championships. How dare us.

 

[huskymedic]

Must be true now:

 

[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.