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Message: [QUOTE="dbmill, post: 3971242, member: 2504"] I agree, a 4-1 record for the coming week should be the goal. Need to beat Rhode Island on the road, and that won't be easy, as Rhode Island always has a competitive team, and UConn won't have a trusted established starter ready to go in this game. And as always, UConn needs to take the final Big East series against Seton Hall. While Seton Hall has a similar RPI to that of Villanova, that series won't offer the same potential RPI boost as the Villanova series since UConn will be playing that series at home. Never underestimate the RPI boost winning a series on the road against a competitive opponent. UConn's pitching does worry me about the coming wee of games. Two of these games won't be started by Peterson, Casparius, or Gallagher, which pretty much means they come down to staff days, even on the game or games that Simeone is given to start. The problem with this is that given the number of games to be played, UConn does not have tremendous depth in terms of the guys coming out of the bullpen that have earned the real trust of the pitching staff. Combine this with only three effective starters, this could be a problem. 5 games in 5 days is going be something of a test for the pitching staff. Not having tremendous trusted depth in the pitching staff is something of a byproduct of this Covid season, with all its stops and starts. Many midweek games have gone by the wayside and been cancelled, and those games were always to me a developmental tool for the young unestablished pitcher or someone like Dunlop looking to come back from a bad stretch of games. Instead of getting their feet wet in these games, these pitchers just don't get an opportunity to show what they can potentially do and establish game confidence for themselves. [/QUOTE]

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