Thoughts on chances U-M baseball reaching Omaha?
It's a little early in the season, I know, but Michigan currently sits at 23-6 and is #29 in RPI. If we can grab a #1 seed in our regional pod (should we get in the tourney, given we didn't last year) that would be huge to play at Fisher Stadium. Really tall order to get there for a Big Ten program. Only 2013 Indiana has reached the CWS since our Barry Larkin got us there 1984
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Nope. No chance. This is solely based on a gut feeling but that's how baseball works, right? It's all gut feelings. ADVANCED METRICS BE DAMNED!
Is that true though? One B1G team in the CWS since 1985?? Crazy.
Fields made entirely of Fieldturf have also helped.
Extremely unlikely but not impossible. Super Regionals would be a huge accomplishment.
We definitely can host a regional. I don't know that we can host a super due to strength of schedule. It's a lot easier to win at home. I remember we were really good like 10 years ago. We lost to eventual national champion Oregon State in Corvallis one year and then the next we hosted a regional but lost to Arizona in front of a sold out Fisher Stadium.
You never know. We would have hosted Oregon State in the '07 super regionals if not for terribly timed construction to Fisher.
Indiana made it a few years back, thanks to Kyle Schwarber. We have as good a chance as any non-Southern team.
Man I hope so! Would give me a reason to skip out on work and drive downtown to go see them!
Went last year to the Big Ten Tourney at TD Ameritrade which was fun but they lost to Ohio State.
The NCAA likes to look for excuses for northern schools to host regionals because it's so rare, so if Michigan is, say, the #18 team in their eyes, they might make them the #2 seed in an Ann Arbor regional and put a #1 seed on the road. It's happened before.
Not many people can say that they homered off future Major League all-star David Price in the NCAA Tournament, but Alan Oaks of the 2007 Michigan Wolverines baseball team can!
Once the CWS changed the regional & super regional tournaments from a true regional, meaning you had to be from that region, to a random draw, mid-west and northern schools lost their advantage. It's a warm weather sport and hard to compete in cold weather states.
sorry but this program lacks a Killer instinct and has a way of folding down nthe stretch..They willn be fotunate just to make the tournament
And that's saying something after today's performance.
Kudos for the guy wielding the bat to post baseball content. I hope you continue to do so. You really hit this one out of the park. lol
But if we keep it rolling you never know. Would be great if the team could make the World Series.
GO BLUE!!