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Opponent change in Hartford tonight @ Dunkin Park (6pm).....Looks like Yale had to cancel because of shortage of healthy pitching....

 
Was looking at the top 25 in college baseball and UConn now sits at #9:
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What is interesting about the top 10 is that 5 of the top 6 teams in the poll are SEC squads (the only one that isn't is Wake Forest of the ACC) and the only 2 non P-5 teams are Coastal Carolina and UConn. UConn is the only team from the northeast in the top 10, although fellow New England squads Boston College and Northeastern are in the top 25.

With the Alabama coach getting fired for providing inside information to a bettor and/or rigging the game by scratching Alabama's ace pitcher one hour before his start against #1 LSU and then starting an injured reliever in his place (LSU subsequently won the game after the bettor had placed heavy bets on LSU), I wondered whether the NCAA might take that victory away from LSU and/or replay that game? I am not sure it will matter because even without the tainted win, LSU is 34-8 and likely deserves to be ranked #1. This incident has startled a lot of people, especially the stupidity of it as a betting analyst I overheard on ESPN said that virtually no money is bet on regular season college baseball and some books took no wagers on the game, so the suspicious bets were easy to spot by regulators in Ohio, where the bets were placed. What a moronic thing for that coach to do. His career is now over and he actually was a pretty good coach. Alabama was 30-15 going into that game and the players (none of whom are alleged to have been involved in the scheme) have to feel cheated and betrayed:
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Fired Alabama Baseball Coach Was on Phone With Former High School Coach Who Placed ‘Suspicious’ Bets, Sources Say

Read about how fired Alabama baseball coach Brad Bohannon was on the phone with a former high school coach when the latter placed a series of "suspicious" bets.
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I am also wondering whether the Ohio betting regulators can force the bettor to disgorge and refund the winnings on that bet? When you stack a bet like that the winner cannot be permitted to profit. I am guessing Bohannon had a deal with the bettor to split the money they won. So I think the Ohio Gaming Commission should be instituting a lawsuit against both of these individuals requesting disgorgement of the winnings and a refund to the book where the bet was placed (The Great American Ballpark).
 
Huskies with another good midweek win/comeback after being down 4-1. Hofstra of the CAA has a better RPI than 6 of the 8 Big East teams, so a much needed game for NCAA seeding. ( Uconn canceled this weeks Tues game vs. a low ranked LIU ( #282 for that reason). Huskies were down 2 All-BE starters with the Albino Rhino missing his 9 strait games and now speedster David Smith out, but the freshman Maddix Delana and Ryan Daniels filled in nicely.

Final home series is this week-end starting FRI (6:05 pm) vs. Butler. With FB HC Jim Mora spreading the word.

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No. 9 HookC Extends Win Streak to Seven - University of Connecticut Athletics

STORRS, Conn. - The No. 9 UConn baseball team (36-11) won its season-high seventh game in a row with a 9-7 victory against Hofstra (23-24) on Wednesday night at
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Final home series is this week-end starting TONIGHT (6:05 pm) vs. Butler.
 
Yep watched the whole game right until the walk -off..... walk..... Fogell is moving up the charts to the MLB scouts with good stuff and a mid 90's fastball. He missed alot of time at Brown and had very little use with no Covid season and worked some as a starter. But this year he's been by far the best Portal get for Uconn pitching. Some of the other kids who were supposed to be like Sears, the starter, haven't made the jump up in comp.

Though it's to bad Fogell was forced to be blown out pitch count wise in game 1 of the series....he's usually a 1-2 innings guy out of the pen. Huskies biggest flaw has been starting pitching and this Butler series, because they suck RPI wise, is a no win situation towards the NCAA's.
 
Hassan with the NC trophy throwing out the first pitch, Jim Mora next up today at 2pm....


 
Almost kicked it away with some very uncharacteristically shoddy defense ( 3 errors in the 9th)...but in their last at bat this happened......
 
UConn seems to be pulling out a lot of late close comeback wins. That is two straight walkoff wins against Butler.

BTW Butler is 11-40 overall and 4-13 in the Big East. Should these games even be close??????
 
Yep crazy finish..... I heard Penders ( on ESPN 97.9 driving home from Storrs) discussing team pressing to much in this series and they need to live in the moment/ play loose like Butler has been. But I guess pressing and being 2-0 is better, if that's what it takes, because this is a bad series(NCAA/RPI wise) they are forced to play vs. a BE team, same as Nova a few weeks ago.

Baseball vs Butler University on 5/13/2023 - Box Score - University of Connecticut Athletics

The official box score of Baseball vs Butler University on 5/13/2023
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Completely embarrassed theirselves by you name it.... what ever you can do wrong in a BB game..... Uconn did it vs. the worse team in the BE. Hope they figure it out, since the 1st game vs. Creighton is on national TV on FS1 from the home of the CWS.
 
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Kinda surprising (top 10) with the bad RPI loss to Butler.....Pitching, especially starters, still have to turn it around if they want to make noise come tourney time.

 
The history for UConn the last few years in the NCAA tournament is that their pitching has been exposed and raked as they have advanced and played better teams in the tournament. We will see what happens this year, but that has been their historical weakness.
 
KhalidShockedTheWorld said:
The history for UConn the last few years in the NCAA tournament is that their pitching has been exposed and raked as they have advanced and played better teams in the tournament. We will see what happens this year, but that has been their historical weakness.
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This year is much more perplexing though. Uconn did loose 3 starters to the MLB draft from last years team that had a 3.78 ERA. This year the team ERA is up to a whopping 4.97.

Biggest problem is both the pitchers who were suppose to make a step up as starters....Ian Cooke (7-1 / 3.64 in 2022) the pre-season BE pitcher of the year and Jack Sullivan (1-1/ 0.79 in 2022) have both tanked with ERA's at 5.96 in 11 starts and 5.49 in 9. Another guy Andrew Sears (8-1/ 2.29 ) who was brought in from D-2 as a Friday starter is even worse at 6.62 in 12 starts. With starting pitching like that no wonder the team needs to ave. 8.3 runs and hit .303 to be 38-12 and in the top 10.

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Kinda surprising (top 10) with the bad RPI loss to Butler.....
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In depth breakdown from The Uconn Blog of why Uconn baseball playing in the Big East with really bad teams like Butler and Nova is a detriment to the NCAA's. Also mention on pitching situation.

"Through 12 weekends, UConn out-slugged its opponents to victory, scoring fewer than five runs just eight times in 47 games with a 1-7 record in those contests. However, Butler, a team down near No. 240 in the RPI, hung tight with UConn all weekend and pulled off a win Sunday after suffering two walk-off losses earlier in the weekend to hand the Storrs nine its first sub-200 loss of the year.


Sunday’s defeat, which came with the double-whammy of coming at home, pushed UConn from No. 16 in the RPI to No. 25. Raphael Cerrato, head coach at Rhode Island and longtime friend of Penders, agreed to cancel Tuesday’s midweek game. With URI ranked No. 192 in the RPI with a decimated pitching staff after UConn’s starters pitched a combined 9 2⁄3 innings over the weekend, playing the game was unlikely to help the Huskies as they jockey for position down the stretch."

www.theuconnblog.com

Did UConn baseball’s hosting hopes shrink away on Mother’s Day?

A bad weekend against a weak opponent sent the Huskies free falling downward in the RPI rankings.
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The team as a whole needs to start pitching better. As you pointed out above:
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This year is much more perplexing though. Uconn did loose 3 starters to the MLB draft from last years team that had a 3.78 ERA. This year the team ERA is up to a whopping 4.97......With starting pitching like that no wonder the team needs to ave. 8.3 runs and hit .303 to be 38-12 and in the top 10.
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You can expect that ERA to jump once you get in the postseason and if you look at UConn's regular season vs. postseason stats the last few years, there has been a huge jump in ERA from regular to postseason. When this becomes a pattern and the pitchers you brought in to rely on are not showing development or the ability to adjust to a higher level, you have to start questioning the coaching of the pitchers. It's something they need to look at if the pitching is once again shellacked in the postseason. Baseball is a game of continual adjustments. You look for improvement, the making of adjustments in pitch selection or usage, etc. Either it will happen or not.
 
KhalidShockedTheWorld said:
The team as a whole needs to start pitching better. As you pointed out above:
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Yeah the more we see it, the more the Uconn pitching staff is starting to resemble the Boston Red Sox..... with 5 of their 6 starters with ERA's over 5.40 , SMH !

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Huskies are BE Champs ! Finish the reg season with a 10-0 win in a bullpen game ! ( They banged out 14 hits while 4 pitchers split the shout out)
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No. 9 HookC Wins Third Striaght BIG EAST Regular Season Title - University of Connecticut Athletics

OMAHA - The No. 9 UConn baseball team (40-13, 15-5 BIG EAST) run-ruled Creighton (25-23, 10-11 BIG EAST), 10-0, in eight innings on Saturday afternoon at Charles
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Once again Uconn's bad starting pitching and defense is a problem....elimination game tomorrow or go home.

 
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Another guy Andrew Sears (8-1/ 2.29 ) who was brought in from D-2 as a Friday starter is even worse at 6.62 in 12 starts.
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Well Sears gave Uconn his game of the year giving up just 1 run (on 5 hits/ no walks with 8 K's). He saved the pitching staff for SAT....eliminating Georgetown 10-1.... they move on to Xavier ( 2pm) and the Championship round (Huskies need to win 2 games )......Oh and the Albino Rhino got the party started for the offense.




 
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"UConn advances to a BIG EAST Championship Saturday and will need to beat the Xavier Musketeers twice to take the crown for the third-straight season. Game one begins at 2 p.m. ET on FloSports. If the Huskies win, they will play a winner-take-all game immeditately after completion of game one."

Baseball vs Georgetown University on 5/26/2023 - Box Score - University of Connecticut Athletics

The official box score of Baseball vs Georgetown University on 5/26/2023
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No. 9 HookC Heads Back to BIG EAST Championship Game - University of Connecticut Athletics

MASON, Ohio - The No. 9 UConn baseball team (42-14) eliminated the Georgetown, 10-1, in Friday's elimination game to advance to its third-straight BIG EAST Championship
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