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lloyde dobler said:

And it’s not good:

Fall season:

MSOC: 11-6-1 overall, 4-3-1 Big East (4th in East Division)
WSOC: 4-12-3, 1-7-2, 11th place of 11
WVB: 12-17, 6-12, 8th placeof 11
MCC: 8th place of 9 at Big East meet
WCC: 9th place 11 at Big East meet

Winter season:

MB: 7-25, 2-18, 11th place of 11
WB: 23-10, 13-5, 2d place of 11
MS/D: 2nd place of 5 at Big East meet
WS/D: 5th place of 7 at Big East meet

Spring season:

Baseball: 24-30, 10-11, 5th place of 8
Softball: 29-23, 11-13, 7th place of 9
Men’s golf: 9th place of 10 at Big East tournament
Women’s golf: 4th place of 6 at Big East
WTEN: Seeded 9th of 11 at Big East, went 1-1

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Good thing we have a great athletic director that gets it.

SHUHoopsFan said:

This stuff happens all of the time. For instance we played Indiana state in the NIT finals. Indiana State’s NET was something like 25. There would be no need for a committee if we only went off numbers. You have to be exceptional to get an at large from a non power conference.

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Shouldn't the standard be to have the best possible teams?

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Were there key departures in women's softball? I thought we rolled back most of our core of top players? I know winning the BET is about catching lightning in a bottle at the right time, but would have thought their results would have been better than that.

As the Big Tuna famously uttered, "you are what your record says you are." At least we're consistent, like consistently bad across the majority of all sports. We're the team everyone circles as an easy "W" when the schedule gets released. The sad part is there never seems to be any accountability. Feels like losing is accepted and in many cases tolerated.

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CL82 said:

Hundred percent agree and just posted about this in the other thread. Connecticut's 40th RPI rank was despite the drag that it got at the lower end of the conference.

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This stuff happens all of the time. For instance we played Indiana state in the NIT finals. Indiana State’s NET was something like 25. There would be no need for a committee if we only went off numbers. You have to be exceptional to get an at large from a non power conference.

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TheHall87 said:

It would help the Big East's case if half the conference didn't finish below .500 overall. Butler and Georgetown were especially poor this year.

2025 Baseball Standings - Big East Conference

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Hundred percent agree and just posted about this in the other thread. Connecticut's 40th RPI rank was despite the drag that it got at the lower end of the conference.

Hundred percent agree that there's always been a biased against Northeastern teams. Still, it seems to me that things are getting worse. Snubs like this become self perpetuating, right? You snub a couple of Big East teams this year, and then next year you say well the big east is a one bid league. It is only because you let lesser deserving teams get in ahead of more deserving Big East teams. It becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.

UConn's a regular participant in postseason baseball. We will be fine, but I do see it as part of a larger pattern and happening more and more across the board in all sports.

(As aside, we do need to improve the quality of the baseball teams at the bottom end of the conference. We would sweep a series season and have our RPI drop. There needs to be minimal commitment to the sports schools participate in.)

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cernjSHU said:

Trump’s reaction to Putin bombing Kiev shows how he is absolutely clueless in foreign policy matters. What made him think that Putin is nothing but a murderous thug.? Did he really think Putin is going to listen to him? Is he that delusional that Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if he was President? Despite Putin relentlessly bombing Kiewv, Trump has to bash Zelensky. There is no peace with Putin until he is defeated. We must continue to arm Ukraine with whatever they need to defeat Putin. As I posted a video of John McCain who stated that Putin wants Ukraine as part of Russia. And he won't stop until he gets it. Trump tries to appease Putin and he still can't come to the realization of what Putin is.

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Yet another objective analysis. I wish our party would use this approach in the media

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It would help the Big East's case if half the conference didn't finish below .500 overall. Butler and Georgetown were especially poor this year.

It's a list of incoming freshman recruits.

Last I looked we have none, though I could be wrong for all the attention I have paid. That makes it difficult to rank us.

So, yes, no surprise we are nowhere to be found.

College Baseball is dead in the northeast and the field has been tilted against schools outside the sun belt and west coast for decades. SEC buys up all the best talent just like they do in every other sport. Hard to swallow pill, but the Big East is a single bid Mid Major league in every other sport aside from M/W Basketball and M Soccer. Seasonal and regional bias and a lowly regarded conference in the sport means a bubble team Big 12 or Big 10 school will always be picked over a bubble team Big East team if the metrics are close. Much the same way a Big 10/12 basketball team on the bubble will be picked over a CAA team on the bubble with similar metrics 95% of the time. It probably shouldn't be like that but it is, and it's nothing new. Does the current "P4 vs everybody else" war pour some gas on the fire and give the Haves another opportunity to flex on the Have Nots? Also yes.

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But really nothing new, or anything to do with conference consolidation. Unfortunately, always a bias toward northeast baseball. And the BE is just not a top baseball conference, and it probably hurt Uconn. Looking just at RPI, seems Uconn was right there, but I just do not follow NCAA baseball that much anymore.

radecicco said:

Well, after watching 2&1/2 games of this series who do you trust has the ability to
score clutch points? Who has the ability to create their own shot? Who has the ability to consistently hit the 3?

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Yes, he can create his own shot and is clutch at the FT line. Just think he can be better if he makes the extra pass at times.