Haha. Hey Nebraska congrats on winning the B1G. As your reward we're going to put you in the #1 overall regional because it is closest to Lincoln but good luck getting tickets because the host team is taking them all.
Thinking about this a little more, Iowa has done a pretty good job in the non-conference.
Fayetteville is 6.5 hours from Lincoln and South Bend is 8.5 hours.
From what I understand, the selection committee does not seed all the teams....only #1 thru #16. After that they can place teams wherever they want, and geography plays a big part in that (as do "storylines" of matchups I'm sure.)
The Big Ten leadership needs to proactively take baseball and softball much more seriously if they want the NCAA to take the league more seriously.
Our huge problem was that if they were not going to take 4th place Indiana they were not going to take 5th place Iowa
I like Maryland's chances to at least reach a Super....they are pretty darn hot right now
This is one time I will put my dislike of the Huskers aside and pull wholeheartedly for them as well as Maryland and Michigan.
That's pretty tame as far as criticizing the B1G is concerned. He probably has the most clout in the B1G when it comes to baseball?Michigan’s Erik Bakich speaks out against how the conference scheduled.
The Big Ten, we did this to ourselves,” Bakich said Monday to a group of reporters. “I don’t blame the selection committee. I wouldn’t have blamed the selection committee one bit if we were not included. They already have a tough enough job, and we as a conference made their job even harder by not having any information to compare the Big Ten teams to in terms of playing those measurables against nonconference opponents.”
He called the decision an “uncontrollable” the Big Ten teams had to deal with.
“Nobody wanted a 44-game conference-only schedule,” Bakich said of the conference coaches. “And we all knew that could negatively affect our opportunities to play in the postseason because you couldn’t evaluate our teams against outside competition. And coupled with finishing third in the conference not knowing if three teams were going to get in, or two teams, yeah, all those things led to some tense moments. I sure am glad we got in, though.”
Bakich said that as soon as it was decided Big Ten football teams would play a conference-only schedule last fall, he and the other baseball coaches in the league knew they would face a similar reduction in their schedules.
“We were reduced from 15 weeks to 13 weeks and our main argument was at least let us play four games a weekend in those 13 weeks so we can get to more games instead of 44,” he said. “Unfortunately, that didn’t happen.”
Michigan baseball joins Central Michigan in NCAA Tournament; Big Ten schedule irks Bakich
The Michigan and Central Michigan baseball teams will play in the Notre Dame Regional in the 64-team NCAA Tournament that begins this weekend.www.detroitnews.com
Michigan’s Erik Bakich speaks out against how the conference scheduled.
The Big Ten, we did this to ourselves,” Bakich said Monday to a group of reporters. “I don’t blame the selection committee. I wouldn’t have blamed the selection committee one bit if we were not included. They already have a tough enough job, and we as a conference made their job even harder by not having any information to compare the Big Ten teams to in terms of playing those measurables against nonconference opponents.”
He called the decision an “uncontrollable” the Big Ten teams had to deal with.
“Nobody wanted a 44-game conference-only schedule,” Bakich said of the conference coaches. “And we all knew that could negatively affect our opportunities to play in the postseason because you couldn’t evaluate our teams against outside competition. And coupled with finishing third in the conference not knowing if three teams were going to get in, or two teams, yeah, all those things led to some tense moments. I sure am glad we got in, though.”
Bakich said that as soon as it was decided Big Ten football teams would play a conference-only schedule last fall, he and the other baseball coaches in the league knew they would face a similar reduction in their schedules.
“We were reduced from 15 weeks to 13 weeks and our main argument was at least let us play four games a weekend in those 13 weeks so we can get to more games instead of 44,” he said. “Unfortunately, that didn’t happen.”
Michigan baseball joins Central Michigan in NCAA Tournament; Big Ten schedule irks Bakich
The Michigan and Central Michigan baseball teams will play in the Notre Dame Regional in the 64-team NCAA Tournament that begins this weekend.www.detroitnews.com
It's frustrating that through a 1+ year pandemic, the leadership was able to make mistake after mistake under the guise of an "abundance of caution" and there will be literally zero consequences.
Next year has tournaments in Corpus Christi, Charleston and Frisco (A&M, Wichita St and Wash St). I don’t know who will be in the first two tournaments.
This makes me hate Kevin Warren even more. Ugh. Outside of Utah, those are all NCAA quality teams.
Heller says he does the scheduling on his own.
They canceled the second game of the doubleheader in wake of the injury. Very bad.
