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UM is picked to finish a distant last in the MAC's pre-season poll, with 13 votes out of the 12-member league, which if I'm not mistaken means our last place prediction was almost completely unanimous among the voters.
https://getsomemaction.com/news/2026/2/ ... -poll.aspx

WTF?
How much does that program even cost to operate?
Why not just relegate it to club sport level?
Would it be more embarrassing than it already is to just shut the thing down?

Someone remind me: how many scholarships do we provide now? I thought it's like one or two.

Looked up the history. You have to go back a ways to find a .500 season, and even farther to find a winning season.
Overall win percentages
2025 .284
2024 .453
2023 .286
2022 .459
2021 .310
2020 n/a
2019 .372
2018 .341
2017 .319
2016 .400
2015 .372
2014 .326
2013 .311
2012 .500
2011 .372
2010 .413
2009 .509

Last conference regular season title (outright or divisional): 2003
Last conference tournament title: 1996 (Uh, pay no attention to the fact that '96 was also UMMBB's last conf tourney title )

It's sad. And don't we have two head coaches now? Honestly, who has two head coaches?

Nice 4-0 start to the season: https://x.com/thorrbjorn/status/2027513 ... 78622?s=46

I was told by somebody who has good contacts that they yanked the 1 scholarship that Baseball used to have. Also, they (Bamford??) are looking at the travel costs for baseball and we may be seeing a team that is "not for long".

It's sad, and I love baseball, but this is where we're at. In order to pay for football and basketball, as well as the NIL dollars needed to attract talent, they need to charge us more money for things like parking and cut sports that are a cash drain like baseball. The odds are stacked against them, but I hope they go out and have a good season. I'll definitely be out there to watch a few games.

I saw an online comment that we are one of 18 D1 teams remaining undefeated.

69MG wrote: Fri Feb 27, 2026 7:58 pm I was told by somebody who has good contacts that they yanked the 1 scholarship that Baseball used to have. Also, they (Bamford??) are looking at the travel costs for baseball and we may be seeing a team that is "not for long".

is this really true? what would the point be to have just 1? I know even the best schools (SEC) can only offer a certain amount - I believe 11 or 12 - the rest are partial but there are ways around that as well...academic scholarships, athletic aid, etc. A lot of these bigger schools also split those scholarships - instead of given out 10 full rides they might give out 20 half or 10 half and 20 at 25% or something along those lines.

^ Absolutely true, 1 scholarship.

Baseball has been playing really well lately. Two consecutive MAC series sweeps sandwiched around a loss to Harvard in the Beanpot. They swept EMU in Ypsilanti last weekend and took all three from Bowling Green this weekend. Yesterday featured a doubleheader which included walkoffs in both games. Exciting stuff!

The MAC website doesn't appear to be updated yet; it shows them at 7-13 MAC but our athletic site shows 8-13 MAC. That would put them in a tie for 8th w/ Bowling Green. I think only the top 6 make the tournament, but it's still pretty impressive considering the lack of support.

Another series win this weekend, this one over a pretty good Ball St team. We're still probably not going to get into the tournament since it's only the top 6 teams and we're 4 games out, but we've gone from the basement to a tie for 7th in the last couple of weeks. Impressive stuff.

Baseball got its 4th straight series win over the weekend against Ohio. They're now 10-2 in their last 12 MAC games and in sole possession of 7th place (top 6 make the tournament). They've got a tough 4-game series at 2nd place Miami coming up, so I expect they'll slip, but it's been a great run for them. If they can tread water against Miami and keep pace with 6th place Ball St, the finale is at home against 10th place Central Michigan with a chance to squeak into the tournament.

It's nice to see and I hope they continue to get better in spite of the major obstacles the program faces from the Department.

Bummer of a weekend for UMass baseball. They went toe-to-toe with T-1st place Miami but dropped all three. They were all tight games, only being outscored 27-23 in the series. UMass is 3 games behind Ball St and own the tiebreaker, but they'll need to sweep Central Mich and have Ball St get swept by Bowling Green to get in. It's extremely unlikely, but regardless of how next weekend plays out, this season has exceeded expectations.

Juice Stand wrote: Mon May 11, 2026 6:35 am UMass is 3 games behind Ball St and own the tiebreaker, but they'll need to sweep Central Mich and have Ball St get swept by Bowling Green to get in.

We don't play until Friday, but we can start scoreboard watching on Thursday, as Ball State starts their final series that afternoon.
https://getsomemaction.com/calendar.aspx?path=baseball

Ball State won their game today and I believe that eliminates us. Even being in contention the last weekend of the season is a good overachievement, given how we were picked to finish a distant last.