2025 Baseball

[throwback]

Hard to believe UCLA and USC are so down - UCLA has missed the NCAAs 2 straight years for the first time since 2003. And the OWH says they may lose their ballpark after this season in a property line fight with the US Dept of Veterans Affairs. Crazy.

 

USC might be crazier - they have 1 NCAA appearance since 2005. That might be the craziest stat I've ever seen. A team in LA should basically make the NCAAs without trying. I mean Minnesota has 5 NCAA appearances since 2005. Oregon restarted baseball in 2009 and has 9 NCAA appearances since then.

 

USC lost their baseball field to an expansion of the football practice fields before last season and are playing an hour from campus. This is a program with a dozen CWS titles. Insane how far they've fallen and how no one there seems to care.

 

Both are probably a sign of the budgetary issues their athletic depts were having and why they jumped to the B1G. 

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Going to have to have some arms step up in the mid-week. With the first few weekends we've had, those are going to be important games to win. 

[hskr4life]

On 2/4/2025 at 3:54 PM, throwback said:

https://d1baseball.com/season-preview/2025-big-ten-season-preview/

 

D1 Baseball B1G preview (paywall)

# 1-Oregon

# 2-NEBRASKA

# 3-Indiana

# 4-Penn St

# 5-Michigan*

6-Maryland*

7-UCLA*

8-Illinois

9-Iowa*

10-USC*

11-Ohio St

12-Minnesota*

13-Purdue*

14-Rutgers*

15-Mich St

16-N'western*

17-Washington*

 

* teams we play

# projected NCAA tourney teams

 

After three weeks of play, Here are the current records. Not that the records mean much as RPI is definitely more important. There are currently 7 teams in the top 100 RPI and 4 in the top 30. I put the top 30 in bold & underline and top 100 in just bold. RPI's under 200 are in red. RPI's 100-199 are just plain text.

 

# 1-Oregon (11-2)

# 2-NEBRASKA (4-6)

# 3-Indiana (6-7)

# 4-Penn St (9-1)

# 5-Michigan* (6-5)

6-Maryland* (7-5)

7-UCLA* (10-3)

8-Illinois (5-4)

9-Iowa* (4-6)

10-USC* (9-3)

11-Ohio St (2-8)

12-Minnesota* (5-5)

13-Purdue* (12-1)

14-Rutgers* (5-7)

15-Mich St (9-2)

16-N'western* (5-5)

17-Washington* (5-8)