2025 Creighton Baseball

[Tdjay114]

Anyone else headed to Fayetteville Friday? Any bar or restaurant recommendations?

[JayPak]

Anyone else headed to Fayetteville Friday? Any bar or restaurant recommendations?

My family enjoyed Walk-On’s in Fayetteville. 8 minute drive from stadium. There’s one in Rogers now also. Small sports bar chain founded in Louisiana by a couple of LSU basketball walk-ons. Now co-owned by Drew Brees.

[JayPak]

Here’s how truly putrid Big East baseball is. Butler had a team ERA for the season of 10.42. That’s epically bad. That’s Little League territory. Their Friday night ace sits at 7.5. Of their 21 conference games, they gave up double-digit run totals in 14 of ‘em. But here’s the kicker: they’re not even the worst team in the league. GTown finished a game behind Butler.

At least four schools in this league won’t take baseball seriously enough to build even a semblance of a program. They’re content to just bump along every year and maybe make the BE tourney every now and then, like the Georgies last year. And three more don’t play the game at all (maybe it’s better that way). But what other D1 conference has more than 25% of its members just sitting out a major sport? Even the Ivy League manages to roll out all eight baseball teams.

This is the same league that was invited to nail down the stadium of the College World Series for the conf. tournament long-term, but no, they’d rather go to a park in a Cincinnati suburb that some drug company built in its backyard, I guess because they have free ice cream and a bouncy house.

I got the impression from that committee chair today that were always going to be a one-bid league and it’d be hard to make a case that that isn’t fair.

Correct. There is basically nothing, save for a team going undefeated, that was going to get the BE a second bid.

Xavier and UConn played very difficult non-con schedules, all on the road, while the likes of Tennessee, Arkansas, and LSU played nobodies at home and were mediocre in their few road games. UConn handed North Carolina it’s only non-con loss, in Chapel Hill to boot.

The only Top 8 seed that played a truly difficult schedule was Oregon State.

Speaking of BE teams that don’t play baseball, Providence actually has a rich history. With 9 NCAAT appearances, Friars have more appearances than any other defunct program except Temple.

[Tdjay114]

cool in depth information. Thanks for sharing.

[Tdjay114]

And thanks for the restaurant recommendation. Will check it out.

[gohogs14]

Anyone else headed to Fayetteville Friday? Any bar or restaurant recommendations?

Anywhere on Dickson Street will do the job as far as bars go. With students gone it might not be as rowdy as usual but should still be packed for the baseball crowd. There’s a bar called Yeehawg with a mechanical Hog you can ride.

Restaurants just depend on what you’re looking for. The Catfish Hole is a popular spot (unlimited hush puppies) and Hugo’s on the square is another one for burgers. The Rogers/Bentonville area about 20 minutes north has a lot more but it caters to the corporate/young professional demographic for the most part with Walmart HQ right up the road. Lots of mountain biking and artsy things to do there.

[SonofFrankTomera]

Anyone else headed to Fayetteville Friday? Any bar or restaurant recommendations?

Anywhere on Dickson Street will do the job as far as bars go. With students gone it might not be as rowdy as usual but should still be packed for the baseball crowd. There’s a bar called Yeehawg with a mechanical Hog you can ride.

Restaurants just depend on what you’re looking for. The Catfish Hole is a popular spot (unlimited hush puppies) and Hugo’s on the square is another one for burgers. The Rogers/Bentonville area about 20 minutes north has a lot more but it caters to the corporate/young professional demographic for the most part with Walmart HQ right up the road. Lots of mountain biking and artsy things to do there.

A mechanical hog?

[D Jay Fan]

Anyone else headed to Fayetteville Friday? Any bar or restaurant recommendations?

Make sure you wear your 'Dana was Right' shirt
I wonder what they think of his blowing them off

[JayPak]

Happy opening day of the baseball NCAAT! To celebrate, here's some trivia covering the CWS in part and the NCAAT in part.
I will post answers on Friday evening.

1) In the history of the D1 baseball NCAAT, 41 schools have qualified that either:
a. no longer have a baseball program ("defunct"), or
b. have a baseball program that no longer competes in D1 ("reclassified")

Out of these 41 schools, which one has the most D1 NCAAT appearances, with 4 more than the next highest?

2) Which current Big East school has the second most appearances of any defunct program?

3) What is the only current NAIA school to have once appeared in the D1 NCAAT? They made the most of their one appearance, finishing as regional runner-up.

4) Which Summit League school has made the CWS a whopping TEN times, the second-most CWS appearances of any mid/low-major program?

5) What are the 3 schools to have qualified for the CWS not once, but twice, only to see their programs axed later?

6) What B1G school no longer has baseball but made the CWS in their only appearance in the NCAAT?

7) Only 2 schools now in D2 have made it to the D1 CWS.
a. Which west coast D2 school appeared in the D1 tourney 4x and made it to the CWS in their final appearance?
b. Which east coast D2 school made it to the D1 CWS and is still a baseball power, finishing as the D2 runner-up in 2023?

8) Only 8 schools now in D2 have made the D1 NCAAT. But, 13 schools now in D3 have made it to the D1 NCAAT. One D3 school played in the D1 tourney as recently as 2018. Who?

9) The last mid/low-major to win the CWS did so in their final month of membership in the Big South, winning the Big South's only national title in any sport. Who?

10) Sticking with mids, only 1 mid/low-major has made it to the CWS this decade. Who?

11) Name all the mid/low-majors to make the CWS from 2010-2019.

12) What is the only D1 school that did not field a team this season whose official status is "dormant" rather than "defunct" or "reclassified?"

13) Which team that made it to the Dance this year did NOT make it in 2012 despite being fully eligible and having a record of 47-12, 28-0 in conference, and winning their conference tournament?

14) Which mid-major school has the most NCAAT appearances among mid/low-majors with 18, and the most national championships of any mid/low-major, with 4?

15) For the last one, gotta be a homer... With this year's appearance added, how many times has Creighton made the NCAAT, and what was their highest finish?

[maxpowers]

2) Which current Big East school has the second most appearances of any defunct program?

A: I think this is the Providence Friars.

15) For the last one, gotta be a homer... With this year's appearance added, how many times has Creighton made the NCAAT, and what was their highest finish?[/quote]

A: I believe we are at a dozen appearances. Highest finish was the 1991 CWS (my freshman year at Creighton!). I believe we technically finished 3rd behind LSU and…Wichita Community College. We beat Clemson and Long Beach State along the way. Exciting season!