Iowa Still Projected In NCAA Tournament By D1 Baseball

[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

As a #3 in the Vanderbilt regional.

1. Vanderbilt vs 4. St.Louis
2. Louisville vs 3. Iowa

Michigan is one of the last five teams in. Iowa is not at this point.

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

............Alrighty then!

 

[2bagger22]

............Alrighty then!

No BAU?! I do have to ask and I understand what it means...why do you post it at every opportunity when the baseball opportunity arises?

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

No BAU?! I do have to ask and I understand what it means...why do you post it at every opportunity when the baseball opportunity arises?

If you have to ask.........you can't afford it.

 

[iowaHawkeyes2323]

Saw something on the lounge forum about Iowa might be adding Missouri for a midweek game in May. Will be interesting to see if it happens.

 

[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

Saw something on the lounge forum about Iowa might be adding Missouri for a midweek game in May. Will be interesting to see if it happens.

That would be huge for SOS and potential RPI boost.

I don't know why they don't already play twice a year. Once here, and once down there.

 

[iowaHawkeyes2323]

I agree with you on that

 

[2bagger22]

That would be huge for SOS and potential RPI boost.

I don't know why they don't already play twice a year. Once here, and once down there.

Distance. The four hour drive cuts into the amount of class time players can miss. Iowa is limited in their midweek travel due to conference regulations.

 

[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

Distance. The four hour drive cuts into the amount of class time players can miss. Iowa is limited in their midweek travel due to conference regulations.

I believe you said this before when I mentioned Mizzou, but Iowa used to play Nebraska and Creighton in midweek games and came to Omaha and Lincoln on Tue or Wed. They even played Nebraska-Omaha in a midweek game as well in Omaha.

 

[2bagger22]

Iowa hasn't played Creighton or Omaha during the school year since 2013. I don't know if the rules have changed but there are limitations on missed classroom time.

 

[Row55]

Confirmed, the Tigers are coming in on May 1, WIU will be played May 2. Providing we aren't snowed out, of course

https://hawkeyesports.com/news/2018/4/19/baseball-iowa-adds-mizzou-to-2018-schedule.aspx

 

[non-poster]

Coach Heller once told me Missouri would not agree to a home and home. He wasn't about to make it a one way street.

This one seemed to be born out of necessity, but also benefits both programs.

I haven't talked to him about it recently, but I'm guessing maybe the Tigers staff is beginning to change their mind on the value of possibly putting Iowa on their schedule.

 

[non-poster]

Iowa hasn't played Creighton or Omaha during the school year since 2013. I don't know if the rules have changed but there are limitations on missed classroom time.

I haven't checked recently, but the UI policy used to be any team departure before 3:00pm was counted as a missed day of class. There is no way a mid-week trip to Columbia would be feasible given that constraint.

 

[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

Adding Missouri is big to the schedule. I'd rather they just call off the WIU game, but I assume there is some sort of agreement. Besides location, we'd be better off scheduling Kirkwood than WIU.

 

[2bagger22]

Iowa hasn't played Creighton or Omaha during the school year since 2013. I don't know if the rules have changed but there are limitations on missed classroom time.

I haven't checked recently, but the UI policy used to be any team departure before 3:00pm was counted as a missed day of class. There is no way a mid-week trip to Columbia would be feasible given that constraint.

I knew I wasn’t completely crazy.

 

[chonk]

I’m not sure when the attitude changed but to confirm the above the only recent hurdle to playing Mizzu has been travel/missed class time.

 

[DodgerHawki]

I haven't checked recently, but the UI policy used to be any team departure before 3:00pm was counted as a missed day of class. There is no way a mid-week trip to Columbia would be feasible given that constraint.

Iowa has made mid-week treks to play Bradley and other schools, or am I missing something?

 

[non-poster]

Bradley is workable from the standpoint the team could leave at 3:00 and still arrive in time to stretch, take BP and all the other pregame routine and still be able to start at 7:00pm and return to Iowa City before 1:00am.

A day trip to Mizzou---
Leave at 3:00
Arrive at stadium at 7:00 (at the very earliest) You would be looking at 7:30 (realistically) an 8:00 first pitch
Figure a good paced ballgame ends at 11:00. Rush to shower/change, load the bus, get sandwiches or pizza in the seats, etc.
If they moved quick, the bus pulls out of the stadium at 11:30.
Return 3:30-4:00am. And make sure you get to class at 8:30am.

 

[Row55]

Coach Heller once told me Missouri would not agree to a home and home. He wasn't about to make it a one way street.

This one seemed to be born out of necessity, but also benefits both programs.

I haven't talked to him about it recently, but I'm guessing maybe the Tigers staff is beginning to change their mind on the value of possibly putting Iowa on their schedule.

That may have been the previous coach; the current guy Steve Bieser is in his 2nd season

 

[mehawk]

D1 baseball has the Hawks as one of the last five in as a 3 seed in the Gainesville region with Florida, Jacksonville, Iowa and Hartford.
https://d1baseball.com/postseason/projected-field-64-april-25/

 

[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

D1 baseball has the Hawks as one of the last five in as a 3 seed in the Gainesville region with Florida, Jacksonville, Iowa and Hartford.
https://d1baseball.com/postseason/projected-field-64-april-25/

I believe that we are the last team in.