OT: Iowa Baseball Team makes the BT Tourney 1st time

[bugsbunny1]

since 2010

1st rnd opponent is against top 25 Indiana and league champion.

Heller in his 1st season went 29-21 overall and 10-14 in the Conference finishing in a 7th place tie with O$U

Hawkeysports has Heller as signing 10 players

maybe Tom can start up a Baseball board as there are a number of Rival sites with this type of board as well as a recruiting site

 

[thewop]

they've got a little ways to go before moving off of "hawkeye sports catch all.". a good first step though.
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[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

Originally posted by thewop:
they've got a little ways to go before moving off of "hawkeye sports catch all.". a good first step though.
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Well, opening up a baseball board would free up space for the HROT refugees to take shelter there.

But really though, yeah, Iowa is probably gonna get pwned by Indiana in baseball. That doesn't sound like it should be something real, but it is what it is.

 

[thisoldhawk14]

It is quite an accomplishment to finish 8th in the Big Ten, only 11 games behind traditional Big Ten baseball juggernaut...Indiana? I thought Indiana was a basketball school.

The most interesting thing I've noticed about this college baseball season is the new artificial turf surfaces at Ohio State and Indiana. Ohio State may have a dirt mound, but otherwise, it's all turf. And Indiana even has turf on the mound. There's not a single drop of dirt on the entire Hoosier baseball field. But in both cases, the fields look like traditional fields. The areas that would normally be dirt are covered by a reddish brown turf that gives the field a pretty natural look. I believe Iowa is considering going that route. It makes sense in the northern parts of the country if you wanna play baseball in February, March, and April.

Check out Indiana's photo gallery here:
http://scoop.hoosiershq.com/2013/02/new-iu-baseball-facility-photo-gallery/

 

[bugsbunny1]

Indiana is a top 25 baseball team. as far as I can tell they are the only BT team in the Top 25. Nebraska who Iowa won 2 out of 3 went 37-18 and finished 2nd in the BT.

compared to Iowa's overall record of 29-21, that's not that far off and Iowa had 7 games cancelled due to weather. they were not that far behind Nebraska.. Indiana finished 38-13 and 21-3 in the BT,

the 4th place teams went 13-11 Iowa was not that far behind the other teams this year in Hellers 1st season and the Iowa other sport programs are making a similar improverment, so the knock on Barta is looking to be way off.

 

[scarletred]

Originally posted by bugsbunny1:

Indiana is a top 25 baseball team. as far as I can tell they are the only BT team in the Top 25. Nebraska who Iowa won 2 out of 3 went 37-18 and finished 2nd in the BT.

compared to Iowa's overall record of 29-21, that's not that far off and Iowa had 7 games cancelled due to weather. they were not that far behind Nebraska.. Indiana finished 38-13 and 21-3 in the BT,

the 4th place teams went 13-11 Iowa was not that far behind the other teams this year in Hellers 1st season and the Iowa other sport programs are making a similar improverment, so the knock on Barta is looking to be way off.

And like Basketball this year I doubt Iowa would have won the series if they played later in the year especially this month.

Indiana, Nebraska and Illinois are clearly the top 3 teams and they separated them selves with the other 5 teams that made the tournament. MSU would be the team I fear after that.

I was hoping Iowa would sweep Purdue so could be in the same bracket.

This post was edited on 5/18 11:34 AM by scarletred

 

[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

Originally posted by scarletred:

Originally posted by bugsbunny1:

Indiana is a top 25 baseball team. as far as I can tell they are the only BT team in the Top 25. Nebraska who Iowa won 2 out of 3 went 37-18 and finished 2nd in the BT.

compared to Iowa's overall record of 29-21, that's not that far off and Iowa had 7 games cancelled due to weather. they were not that far behind Nebraska.. Indiana finished 38-13 and 21-3 in the BT,

the 4th place teams went 13-11 Iowa was not that far behind the other teams this year in Hellers 1st season and the Iowa other sport programs are making a similar improverment, so the knock on Barta is looking to be way off.

And like Basketball this year I doubt Iowa would have won the series if they played later in the year especially this month.

Indiana, Nebraska and Illinois are clearly the top 3 teams and they separated them selves with the other 5 teams that made the tournament. MSU would be the team I fear after that.

I was hoping Iowa would sweep Purdue so could be in the same bracket.

This post was edited on 5/18 11:34 AM by scarletred

You can doubt all you want, fact of the matter is Iowa outplayed Nebraska in two of three games as far as batting approach and pitching went. I was there and witnessed it first hand. Keep in mind this was when Iowa had a healthy weekend rotation, I am sure Nebraska would have more success against Iowa too with no Calvin Mathews and a Tyler Peyton who is coming back from a muscle pull. I realize Nebraska fans want to play Iowa again so they can say "told you we are better".....Nebraska/Iowa baseball series is a lot closer than any of you probably realize or know. Erstad is 5-4 against Iowa I believe.

 

[bugsbunny1]

never followed college Baseball how many games are played? is it a 1 n done format or best 2-3?

 

[StormHawk42]

Originally posted by bugsbunny1:

never followed college Baseball how many games are played? is it a 1 n done format or best 2-3?

8 team double elimination. 2 losses and out.

 

[bugsbunny1]

thx

the way people were talking about Iowa Athletics I was under the impression the Iowa baseball team was at the bottom of the BT , to finish in a tie for 7th with O$U under Heller seemed like a big deal to me,

like I said I didn't follow the Hawks baseball team

 

[dawgs_04]

Originally posted by thisoldhawk14
It is quite an accomplishment to finish 8th in the Big Ten, only 11 games behind traditional Big Ten baseball juggernaut...Indiana? I thought Indiana was a basketball school.

The most interesting thing I've noticed about this college baseball season is the new artificial turf surfaces at Ohio State and Indiana. Ohio State may have a dirt mound, but otherwise, it's all turf. And Indiana even has turf on the mound. There's not a single drop of dirt on the entire Hoosier baseball field. But in both cases, the fields look like traditional fields. The areas that would normally be dirt are covered by a reddish brown turf that gives the field a pretty natural look. I believe Iowa is considering going that route. It makes sense in the northern parts of the country if you wanna play baseball in February, March, and April.

Check out Indiana's photo gallery here:
http://scoop.hoosiershq.com/2013/02/new-iu-baseball-facility-photo-gallery/

Iowa's infield is artificial. They want to do the outfield before next season.
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[okayplayer76]

Have to love the Nebraska fans! I suppose if Nebraska played Iowa early in the year in football Iowa would of lost that game as well!! What about Golf or Wrestling, does that matter as well? Face it your schools claim to fame in anything is over on the women's side!

This post was edited on 5/19 4:13 PM by okayplayer76

 

[scarletred]

Originally posted by okayplayer76:
Have to love the Nebraska fans! I suppose if Nebraska played Iowa early in the year in football Iowa would of lost that game as well!! What about Golf or Wrestling, does that matter as well? Face it your schools claim to fame in anything is over on the women's side!

This post was edited on 5/19 4:13 PM by okayplayer76

What ever... If you really think that Iowa is better than Nebraska right now in Baseball and if you think Iowa would have beaten Nebraska in Lincoln in Basketball when they couldn't beat anyone on the road or at home at the end of the year.

You sir are delusional.

This post was edited on 5/19 5:53 PM by scarletred

 

[bugsbunny1]

to bad we didn't have that rematch with Nebraska in BB, as for your weak schedule you did not have to play;

Wisconsin twice
MSU twice
Minnesota twice
Iowa twice.

talk about a weak schedule that's about as weak as it gets, and you played Wisconsin at the end of the season @ home.

 

[1fansopinion]

Originally posted by bugsbunny1:

to bad we didn't have that rematch with Nebraska in BB, as for your weak schedule you did not have to play;

Wisconsin twice
MSU twice
Minnesota twice
Iowa twice.

talk about a weak schedule that's about as weak as it gets, and you played Wisconsin at the end of the season @ home.

You had two chances to beat Wisconsin, you lost both. Nebraska had one, and won.
You had two chances to beat MSU, you lost both. Nebraska had one, and won.
Congrats on beating Minnesota once, we also beat them once.
Wait... you played yourself twice??? Did you manage to win one of those?

We played the schedule we were dealt, and made it to the tournament. Not the pretend tournament play-in game!

Much like how you are playing an incredibly weak schedule in football this year.
Something tells me that if you get to a decent bowl game you will be spinning to us about the "toughness" of your schedule!



This post was edited on 5/19 8:06 PM by 1fansopinion

 

[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

Originally posted by 1fansopinion:

Originally posted by bugsbunny1:

to bad we didn't have that rematch with Nebraska in BB, as for your weak schedule you did not have to play;

Wisconsin twice
MSU twice
Minnesota twice
Iowa twice.

talk about a weak schedule that's about as weak as it gets, and you played Wisconsin at the end of the season @ home.

You had two chances to beat Wisconsin, you lost both. Nebraska had one, and won.
You had two chances to beat MSU, you lost both. Nebraska had one, and won.
Congrats on beating Minnesota once, we also beat them once.
Wait... you played yourself twice??? Did you manage to win one of those?

We played the schedule we were dealt, and made it to the tournament. Not the pretend tournament play-in game!

Much like how you are playing an incredibly weak schedule in football this year.
Something tells me that if you get to a decent bowl game you will be spinning to us about the "toughness" of your schedule!




This post was edited on 5/19 8:06 PM by 1fansopinion

And after one of your most successful seasons in the last 20 years you still have....lets count em', ZERO wins in the NCAA tournament.

 

[SoDakHawk]

Why is this thread clogging up the football board? I came here to read about Iowa football. Move this thread to the Off Topic board please since it is off topic.

 

[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

Originally posted by SoDakHawk:
Why is this thread clogging up the football board? I came here to read about Iowa football. Move this thread to the Off Topic board please since it is off topic.

Well the thread title tells you what it's about. So you don't like it, don't read it.

 

[Hawktagonapus]

Originally posted by SoDakHawk:
I came here to read about Iowa football.

I'm pretty sure this is a Nebraska board.

 

[ferentzin04]

Originally posted by 1fansopinion:
You had two chances to beat Wisconsin, you lost both. Nebraska had one, and won.
You had two chances to beat MSU, you lost both. Nebraska had one, and won.
Congrats on beating Minnesota once, we also beat them once.
Wait... you played yourself twice??? Did you manage to win one of those?

We played the schedule we were dealt, and made it to the tournament. Not the pretend tournament play-in game!

Much like how you are playing an incredibly weak schedule in football this year.
Something tells me that if you get to a decent bowl game you will be spinning to us about the "toughness" of your schedule!



This post was edited on 5/19 8:06 PM by 1fansopinion

You had one chance to beat Iowa, and lost. In football as well. Sooooo, does that end this little side bar?

 

[ABYPFCS]

It is great that we are even discussing Big Ten Baseball. Being also a Razorback fan, college baseball has become my 3rd favorite sport behind Football and Basketball.

Hoping to make the trip to Omaha and the World Series one day.

 

[MIHawk]

You played the schedule you were dealt with, as did we. And we saw Iowa dominate Nebraska in just about every major sport this past year. That is a fact. A blowout win in football in Lincoln, a double digit win in Iowa City in basketball, a blowout win in wrestling in Lincoln, and 2/3 in baseball in Iowa City. We could play these woulda-coulda games all day long. But on the field of play, in 2013-2014, Iowa had its way with UNL. Now will that continue in 2014-2015? Who knows. I guess we'll have to wait and see. Honestly, as a graduate of both universities, I am excited at the prospect of this rivalry. The Big 10 needs another besides Michigan-Ohio State.

 

[SoDakHawk]

Originally posted by IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life:

Originally posted by SoDakHawk:
Why is this thread clogging up the football board? I came here to read about Iowa football. Move this thread to the Off Topic board please since it is off topic.

Well the thread title tells you what it's about. So you don't like it, don't read it.

I think you completely missed what I was trying to point out regarding the recent changes to this site.

 

[bugsbunny1]

if there was a Baseball board I would posted it there, but since this sports board I thought it would be safe to post it here,

I did this also because some have repeatedly stated Iowa athletics was dead last in every sport on this forum. from the looks of the FB, BB, Baseball, Women BB and the other sports. that is changing.

 

[SWIowahawks]

Originally posted by 1fansopinion:

Originally posted by bugsbunny1:

to bad we didn't have that rematch with Nebraska in BB, as for your weak schedule you did not have to play;

Wisconsin twice
MSU twice
Minnesota twice
Iowa twice.

talk about a weak schedule that's about as weak as it gets, and you played Wisconsin at the end of the season @ home.

You had two chances to beat Wisconsin, you lost both. Nebraska had one, and won.
You had two chances to beat MSU, you lost both. Nebraska had one, and won.
Congrats on beating Minnesota once, we also beat them once.
Wait... you played yourself twice??? Did you manage to win one of those?

We played the schedule we were dealt, and made it to the tournament. Not the pretend tournament play-in game!

Much like how you are playing an incredibly weak schedule in football this year.
Something tells me that if you get to a decent bowl game you will be spinning to us about the "toughness" of your schedule!



This post was edited on 5/19 8:06 PM by 1fansopinion

You lost to Iowa. No "pretending" about it.

As long as Iowa beats Nebraska, again, we won't be spinning anything. We will more than likely be in the B1G title game.
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[bugsbunny1]

as the Nebraska fans tried to tell us how much better they were in FB because they went 9-4 vs Iowa's 8-5, well

Iowa went 20-13 vs Nebraska who went 19-13.

Iowa Baseball 2-1

Nebraska can't be that much better than Iowa in the men's sports now can they, the records against Iowa can't be denied.

 

[scarletred]

Originally posted by bugsbunny1:

to bad we didn't have that rematch with Nebraska in BB, as for your weak schedule you did not have to play;

Wisconsin twice
MSU twice
Minnesota twice
Iowa twice.

talk about a weak schedule that's about as weak as it gets, and you played Wisconsin at the end of the season @ home.

The B1G did you a favor in Basketball by only playing Nebraska once instead of a return visit to Lincoln and the Vault.

Too finish your other thread.

Nebraska 4th in Basketball, Iowa 6th in the B1G.
Nebraska 2nd in Baseball , Iowa 8th in the B1G.

 

[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

Fact: Iowa beat nebraska in every men's sport

 

[BTHusker]

Originally posted by bugsbunny1:

as the Nebraska fans tried to tell us how much better they were in FB because they went 9-4 vs Iowa's 8-5, well

Iowa went 20-13 vs Nebraska who went 19-13.

Iowa Baseball 2-1

Nebraska can't be that much better than Iowa in the men's sports now can they, the records against Iowa can't be denied.

Couple things, Nebraska would have finished 20-13 in basketball if we threw in a game against a non div 1/ transitioning team like Iowa did( Albelein Christian). That game was meaningless.

Nebraska baseball is almost a lock for the NCAA Tourney and is currently ranked in just about every poll, and sits 38-18 (18-6), while Iowa sits 29-22 (10-14). Even though Iowa took 2 of 3, I don't think any one can argue Iowa has a better overall baseball team this year, just like no one is arguing that 19-33 Northwestern is better than Nebraska after taking 2 of 3 at Haymarket.

And football, yes we finished 9-4 against your 8-5, and finished ranked in the coaches poll, and one spot outside of the AP. That's just the way it worked out no matter how you slice it.

Like you said, the records and numbers cannot be denied, so it works well for Nebraska's advantage even though we suffered losses to you in all three sports. Fact remains, every team of Nebraska's finished higher in the standings than Iowa did. Very odd, but again, it's just the way these seasons played out.

 

[bugsbunny1]

and you still would not have come close if you had scheduled a tougher team than FLA Gulf Coast to start the season,,

see 2 can play that game

as for Baseball Indiana is ranked 8th in the nation in Baseball, right now..

and your OOC schedule looks pretty pathetic compared to Iowa's

Neb vs FLA Atlantic Iowa vs UNI UNI all the way
vs McNeese ST vs Ball ST BSU all the way
vs Fresno ST vs ISU meh and ISU is still a BCS opponent
vs Miami, FLA vs Pitt a toss up for Iowa while NEB will lose to Miami, just l;ike they did to UCLA last year,

all in all a typical Husker OOC schedule,

 

[SWIowahawks]

Easy Kilroy. Nebraska's OOC schedule is usually a lot better than Iowa's. No one takes you serious when you can't admit a few things in Nebraska's favor.
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[1fansopinion]

Originally posted by bugsbunny1:

and you still would not have come close if you had scheduled a tougher team than FLA Gulf Coast to start the season,,

see 2 can play that game

as for Baseball Indiana is ranked 8th in the nation in Baseball, right now..

and your OOC schedule looks pretty pathetic compared to Iowa's

Neb vs FLA Atlantic Iowa vs UNI UNI all the way
vs McNeese ST vs Ball ST BSU all the way
vs Fresno ST vs ISU meh and ISU is still a BCS opponent
vs Miami, FLA vs Pitt a toss up for Iowa while NEB will lose to Miami, just l;ike they did to UCLA last year,

all in all a typical Husker OOC schedule,

This is such a stupid post, that even people on your own board realize it.

First off, Florida Gulf Coast qualified for the NCAA tournament last year. Are you realy comparing them to a non D1 school like Abelien Christian?
If that's "2 playing that game", then one is sorely overmatched! (hint: it's you, bugs)

Second, that's an interesting way to make Iowa's OOC schedule appear better than it is.

FAU vs. UNI
Florida Atlantic = BCS (D1) school UNI = FCS (non D1) school No matter how you slice it, you get no credit for playing an FCS team. Iowa fans may consider them a juggernaut, they are not. Any reasonable, unbiased, football fan would give the advantage to FAU.

McNeese St. vs. Ball St.
While Mcneese St is a better FCS program than UNI is, they are still an FCS program. For the same reasons as the first game, you have to go with the BCS team, Ball St.

Fresno St vs. ISU
This is where your ignorance really shows. Do you really think that Fresno St is not a BCS program? (so now, being a BCS program matters to you? It didn't seem to with UNI?) Do you really think that ISU is better? If you answered yes to either of these questions, then give up college football and start following soccer!
Fresno State is a BCS program that went 10-2 last year and was in a bowl game.
ISU is, supposedly, also a BCS program that managed just three wins last year. They lost to that juggernaut, UNI.
This one goes to Fresno St, and it isn't close.

Miami Fla vs. Pitt
Do we really need to discuss this one? One of Pitt's losses last year was to Miami.
Miami. Again, not even close.

You are right, it's a "typical" Nebraska OOC schedule. It's much tougher than Iowa's, and that is very typical.





This post was edited on 5/22 8:16 PM by 1fansopinion

 

[bugsbunny1]

ohh you mean Nebraska schedules 2 BCS schools and its not Iowa's fault that Missouri chickened out of a 4 year home and home series. nor is it Iowa's fault that UConn backed out of a home and home, that's 6 years that Iowa was forced to schedule lesser schools.

as for Pitt they may have lost to Miami but the did beat ND last year, go figure,

back to the topic of this Thread Iowa eliminated 4th place Minnesota in the BT Baseball round robin, putting them into the 3rd round,
next up Indiana or Michigan today at 7:30 PM

 

[NWIA Hawkfan]

I was in Omaha on business the other night and had nothing to do so I ran down to TD Ameritrade and caught the Michigan/Minny first round game. Good, cheap entertainment. Tix are only $11 and you can literally sit anywhere you want. If you live within a few hours of Omaha, come on down and cheer on the Hawks tonight.

 

[hawkjt]

I caught Iowa beating Minny yesterday in the BTT....good solid game, with Iowa getting that go ahead run in the 8th with solid fundamental bb.

Nice win.

Next up: Blue.

 

[1fansopinion]

Originally posted by bugsbunny1:
ohh you mean Nebraska schedules 2 BCS schools and its not Iowa's fault that Missouri chickened out of a 4 year home and home series. nor is it Iowa's fault that UConn backed out of a home and home, that's 6 years that Iowa was forced to schedule lesser schools.

as for Pitt they may have lost to Miami but the did beat ND last year, go figure,

back to the topic of this Thread Iowa eliminated 4th place Minnesota in the BT Baseball round robin, putting them into the 3rd round,
next up Indiana or Michigan today at 7:30 PM

Your ability to follow a post makes me wonder if you have severe A.D.D. I hope that's the case, otherwise you're just dense.

There are currently over 100 BCS schools and ten BCS conferences.

Nebraska has three out of their four games with BCS teams, Iowa also has thee out of four. (not sure where you got the idea that there's 2?)
Nebraska has been in the same boat with having teams back out on them. The point was that Nebraska's OOC schedule is tougher than Iowa's. This is a fact that isn't disputed by any unbiased football fan.
Your sad attempt to paint Nebraskas schedule as weaker due to such brilliant data as the strength of an FCS team (UNI) and the false idea that Fresno St is not a BCS team, is proof of your lack of understanding of college football.

Whoopie! Pitt beat Notre Dame! Big deal.
Not only did they lose to Miami in a head to head matchup, they had a worse record playing in the same conference as Miami and they lost to North Carolina and Georgia Tech (both teams that Miami beat). It's a little ridiculous to compare the athletes on Miami's team to the athletes on Pittsburgh's team, Miami has some very good players.

My point was to refute your silly argument, not to knock Iowa's schedule. Frankly, I don't really care who the Hawkeyes schedule in the non-conference.

As far as the topicof this thread... It will be interesting to see if Iowa and Nebraska end up meeting each other in baseball again.

 

[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

UNI would beat FAU most seasons

 

[1fansopinion]

Originally posted by IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life:
UNI would beat FAU most seasons

Last season, FAU went 6-6 playing a schedule of mostly BCS teams, including Auburn and Miami.
UNI went 7-5 while playing a total of one (Iowa St.) BCS team.

FAU is full of Florida football players. Granted, most weren't offered by FSU, Florida, etc... but Florida is known to have very good athletes.
If FAU and UNI played 10 times, I believe FAU would win 6 or 7.

Regardless, when considering Strength of Schedule, non-BCS teams don't get much credit. For that reason the people who determine SOS would give more strength FAU than to UNI, regardless of how strong UNI might be.

 

[ichawk24]

BCS = schools in the six conferences with BCS auto bids, and now most use the designation to describe the current power 5
FBS = Former division 1, includes 10 total conferences and ~120 teams. Fresno State is FBS, not BCS.
FCS = Former division 1-aa. UNI is FCS.

 

[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

I stand by what I say UNI along with McNeese State would/could beat FAU most seasons.