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Message: [QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 5289041, member: 549"] From [URL='https://www.courant.com/2025/05/31/dom-amores-sunday-read-former-goats-skipper-has-lots-to-do-vin-bakers-hall-allies-and-more/']Dom Amore’s Sunday Read[/URL] column: -> [B]Last word[/B] 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. <- [/QUOTE]

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