Michigan Baseball 2016 schedule announced
The schedule has been announced for the 2015 B1G Tournament Champions. Michigan stunned EVERYONE last year by going on a run to win the B1G Tournament and earning an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Michigan has finished higher and higher as we further progress into the Erik Bakich era.
2013- T-5th
2014- T-4th
2015- T-3rd, B1G Tournament Champions, NCAA Regional Runner-Up
2016- ?
Schedule highlights-
- Opening the season at Ray Fisher Stadium South: Tradition Field in Port St. Lucie, which is the owned by Fred Wilpon who is the New York Mets owner.
- Hooray! Michigan gets to play both MSU and OSU this year. Why is this news? Well, they haven't both been on our schedule as B1G conference series since....2011.
- 4-game road trip to Hawaii
- Return series to Oklahoma State
Date | Opponent | Time (EST) |
2/19 | vs Canisius (Tradition Field) | 2pm |
2/20 | vs Canisius (Tradition Field) | 11am |
vs Canisius (Tradition Field) | 2pm | |
2/21 | vs Canisius (Tradition Field) | 11am |
2/26 | Saint Joseph's (in Santa Clara, CA) | 1pm |
2/27 | Cal Poly (in San Jose, CA) | 3pm |
2/28 | at Santa Clara | 9pm |
2/29 | at California | 9pm |
3/2 | at San Jose State | 9pm |
3/3 | at UC Davis | 5pm |
3/4 | at UC Davis | 5pm |
3/5 | at UC Davis | 5pm |
3/10 | at Hawaii | 12:30pm |
3/11 | at Hawaii | 12:30pm |
3/12 | at Hawaii | 7am |
3/13 | at Hawaii | 10am |
3/18 | at Oklahoma State | TBA |
3/19 | at Oklahoma State | TBA |
3/20 | at Oklahoma State | TBA |
3/25 | vs Illinois-Chicago | 4pm |
3/26 | vs Illinois-Chicago | Noon |
vs Illinois-Chicago | 3pm | |
3/27 | vs Illinois-Chicago | 1pm |
3/29 | vs Central Michigan | 4pm |
4/1 | at Northwestern* | 4pm |
4/2 | at Northwestern* | 3pm |
4/3 | at Northwestern* | 2pm |
4/5 | at Notre Dame | TBA |
4/6 | vs Bowling Green | 4pm |
4/8 | vs Minnesota* | 4pm |
4/9 | vs Minnesota* | 2pm |
4/10 | vs Minnesota* | 1pm |
4/14 | vs Eastern Michigan | 4pm |
4/16 | vs Nebraska* | 4pm |
4/17 | vs Nebraska* | 2pm |
4/18 | vs Nebraska* | 1pm |
4/20 | vs Toledo | 4pm |
4/22 | at Iowa* | 7pm |
4/23 | at Iowa* | 3pm |
4/24 | at Iowa* | 2pm |
4/29 | vs Michigan State* | 6pm |
4/30 | at Michigan State* | 1:05pm |
5/1 | vs Michigan State* | 1pm |
5/3 | vs Eastern Michigan | 6pm |
5/4 | at Eastern Michigan | 6pm |
5/6 | vs Rutgers* | 6pm |
5/7 | vs Rutgers* | 2pm |
5/8 | vs Rutgers* | Noon |
5/11 | at Central Michigan | 4pm |
5/13 | at Ohio State* | 6:30pm |
5/14 | at Ohio State* | 3pm |
5/15 | at Ohio State* | 1pm |
5/20 | at Illinois* | TBA |
5/21 | at Illinois* | TBA |
5/22 | at Illinois* | TBA |
B1G Tournament (Omaha, NE)^ | ||
5/25 | TBD | |
5/26 | TBD | |
5/27 | TBD | |
5/28 | TBD | |
5/29 | Championship | |
NCAA Tournament^ |
*B1G Conference Game
^ if applies
October 29th, 2015 at 6:26 PM ^
A trip to Hawaii to play 4 Baseball games.. It doesn't suck to have an athletic department as well funded as Michigan.
October 29th, 2015 at 6:37 PM ^
I don't know how these kids play baseball and keep up with school. Basically on the road for a month straight to start the season. The NCAA, of course, is OK with this but we can't have a bigger football playoff set up because the students from a few teams will miss to much class time.
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October 29th, 2015 at 7:02 PM ^
Of which, much would (or could) be during the winter break. What about the children...
October 29th, 2015 at 8:29 PM ^
They'll be fine. They have tutors and did the same thing travel wise probably in high school.
October 29th, 2015 at 6:38 PM ^
Edit: too
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October 29th, 2015 at 6:52 PM ^
One thing I find odd about the Hawaii trip ..... no doubleheaders and 4 days in between the UC-Davis game and the start of the Hawaii series. That's REALLY maximizing the number of days in Hawaii. I can't imagine Michigan would travel California to Michigan and back to Hawaii.
Hawaii pays a large percentage of travel costs for their conference mates (Mountain West in football, Big West in Olympic Sports) to visit the islands for games. I wonder if it's the same thing for OOC games?
October 29th, 2015 at 9:50 PM ^
Yes, he translated the Hawaii time the wrong way. Also, the time change takes place that weekend further confusing things...
Thursday, March 10: 6:30 pm HST = 11:30 pm EST
Friday, March 11: 6:30 pm HST = 11:30 pm EST
Saturday, March 12: 1:00 pm HST = 6:00 pm EST
Sunday, March 13: 4:00 pm HST = 10:00 pm EDT (Hawaii does not use daylight time, Michigan goes onto daylight time the morning of March 13).
October 29th, 2015 at 10:29 PM ^
Yeah, I just figured that out right now.
October 29th, 2015 at 7:26 PM ^
When I was a senior in high school my future college teammates got to go play in Hawaii and our #1 pitcher blew all of his meal money/per diem on a prostitute the first day and had very little to eat (bumming food off others) the rest of the trip. We never got to go back to Hawaii in my 5 years and I was promised it "annually" before signing my LOI.
Cool story bro.
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October 29th, 2015 at 7:31 PM ^
Win the whole, fuckin, thing.
October 29th, 2015 at 7:37 PM ^
So pumped B1G baseball tourney is back in Omaha. Hoping to see a repeat of last year! Fun team to follow last year, now go make a super regional this year!
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October 29th, 2015 at 7:45 PM ^
That's asking a lot. Let's focus on winning the B1G and being good enough to be in without needing to win the B1G Tournament.
Basically, where we were in 2008.
October 29th, 2015 at 11:15 PM ^
If they win that 4-3 loss against louisville in their 2nd game of the regional, I think they would have made a super regional.
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October 29th, 2015 at 7:50 PM ^
Kinda curious - anyone know what it costs to send the whole team/support staff to Hawaii for four days to play one series?
October 29th, 2015 at 8:03 PM ^
No but I do know that spring sports usually travel somewhere nice and play games as a spring break treat.
Last year WLAX was on the West coast, Softball is always on the West coast or FL until April and MLAX was at Jacksonville last year.
October 29th, 2015 at 8:29 PM ^
Lots of fundraising to pay for those trips. At least historically a lot of it comes from donors. At least that's how it was before the Big Ten Network. I assume it's not too different now.
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October 29th, 2015 at 11:28 PM ^
I saw some of the Maize-Blue game last Saturday. So many new faces on this team. Carmen Benedetti has a legitimate shot at B1G player of the year. Hopefully an Adcock-Nutof-Hill starting rotation can continue the momentum from the end of last season. It's too bad Ogden didn't come back for a 5th year because he was arguably the second best pitcher at the end of last season.
October 30th, 2015 at 6:33 PM ^
I WILL be there!