The Bluejay Underground: A Creighton Sports Message Board

The Jays have to play their best the rest of the conference season just to make the conference tourney. Being in 5th place and not playing the top 3 teams yet, puts us in a must win situation vs the top teams. GO JAYS, lets do it.

I think we're fine. The Big East is deeper this year and is the #6 RPI conference and has been at #4 for much of the season. We need to take care of business at home this week and let others beat up on each other this weekend. Hopefully we get Dom and Tate back soon. 12 conference games left. Need to win 8 or 9 of them for a chance at Prasco. Win against Coastal midweek and we boost our rpi and have a chance to help our at large chances if we do get into the top 4. Let's Go Jays. Big week ahead.

It’s shame this team can’t play exclusively midweek games. Thumped #13 Coastal tonight.

Was great to see Cade Lommel pitch so well tonight after struggling much of the past two seasons. Maybe this will earn him some more outings and give him confidence. Could be a huge week if we can take care of business the rest of the way. Great game all around. Koch closed it out. Bullpen was solid. Timely hitting.

Creighton has played 8 games vs Quad 1 and 2 teams with a record of 5-3
First place UConn has played 27 games vs Quad 1 and 2 teams with a record of 12-15
It pays to play tough teams even if you lose more games.
I'd like our non conference schedule to be with more Coastal Carolina type teams.

Jays sweep #13 Coastal Carolina! Came from behind... down 4-2 in the 8th, with a Hess triple. Hess hits the game winner in the 10th. Time to focus on the conference. This team is capable...

After sweeping #13 Coastal Carolina, the Jays are 10-0 in mid week games.

drbluejay wrote:After sweeping #13 Coastal Carolina, the Jays are 10-0 in mid week games.

Too bad that doesn’t factor into making it into the conference tournament, which is pretty essential to having any shot at making the NCAA tourney.

Jays finished 11-0 in midweek games in 2018, and 26-9 in all non-con games.
That meant nothing when the team went 8-9 in the BE and the season ended without a postseason. In fact, it ended at home with a series win over a PAC-12 team (Cal) that was bittersweet at best, knowing there was no tomorrow at Prasco.

My theory on BE woes is that Ed gets tight during those games and the team reflects that. The counterpoint to this theory is that Ed gets tight for the Husker games too, yet we win those.

Minimum, 13 BE wins will be required to make Prasco. That means Jays must go 9-3 in the remaining 12. Even there, could still end up tied with X and miss out. So, must go 10-2 with half of the games on the road to guarantee making Prasco. Not a great situation, but losing to Butler and Nova put us there.

Silver lining is that Seton Hall is circling the drain and we play them last at home, where a sweep is quite doable. Hall will either play with a lot of unmotivated guys, or a lot of young, inexperienced guys.

So, the best path is to sweep Georgetown, go 2-1 vs both UConn and St John’s, and then sweep Hall. Doable?

Honestly, I don't think it is doable. The team is 2-5 in last 7 conference games. That includes losing a series to Nova and losing a home game to Butler, who are both objectively terrible teams. Hard to see some switch flipped where the team goes 10-2 now against much better competition.