Opener at Arizona State tonight. Hopefully the Muskies have set aside the suck that was 2015 and get back to the form that made them Big East champs in 2014.
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Opener at Arizona State tonight. Hopefully the Muskies have set aside the suck that was 2015 and get back to the form that made them Big East champs in 2014.
The game will be available on a live stream through ASU's website. Not sure yet whether they are charging or not.
Live stream requires an account with a TV provider that carries the Pac-12 Network. Damn you DirecTV!
4-0 Arizona State in the middle of the 4th.
http://pac-12.com/live/arizona-state-university
free - one click
Nice, thanks. Good to see the Muskies hanging tough against excellent competition. First of four games in Arizona.
0-4 in Phoenix, which isn't a huge surprise. I did notice that Xavier isn't scheduled to play a home game until March 15.
The 0-4 Muskies get a slightly less tall task this weekend with three at Mercer in Macon, GA. Mercer (3-1) seems to be pretty good themselves, though, judging by an opening weekend sweep of Radford and a weekday extra inning home loss to Georgia. Hopefully the Muskies can get their first win this weekend.
I blame their tough losses in the desert on Dawn Rogers.
Which isn't altogether fair, since apparently she's left ASU to head up the NCAA Final Four operation next year in Phoenix.
The Muskies swing through here to take on USC Upstate next weekend, so I can go check them out.
Xavier lost 3-1 in 10 innings.
0-5 now
The Muskies will put their perfect record on the line in front of paulxu (I assume) today at 4pm in Sparkletown, SC against USC-Upstate.
Going to try for tomorrow's game if I can. Also here Sunday.
Very bad start to the season. Wonder what's going on?
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Originally Posted by paulxu
They're not very good, and they're playing southern schools with a huge built-in advantage on the road. Hopefully they can hold their own once they start playing fellow northerners. Obviously, that didn't happen last year.
Started a new streak with a 6-1 win yesterday at the Upstate. Series continues this afternoon.
Two in a row. On fire!
Clean sweep of USC-U. Blew a 7-1 lead but scored in the ninth for an 8-7 win. 3-7 now.
The "good" news is that Creighton is the only Big East team with a winning record, so it's still very possible that X will be competitive in league play.
There's only 7 teams in the Big East - that's why it was very disappointing last year to not even advance to the Big East tournament. The team apparently had enough injuries to put them on the bad side of the standings.
Hopefully this is a very good sign of things to come in 2016.
Xavier also playing Vanderbilt on ESPN3/SEC Network+ as we speak.
So X lost 4 straight to Vandy (3) and Louisville by a combined 37-6. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say those teams are better than ours.
Maybe they could suit up Chapman for a few games. He's available.
Xaviee got a win today over Central Michigan to improve to 5-12. The good news: Xavier is #89 in the RPI. The Muskies are 0-9 against top 50 competition, so the schedule has been brutal. Hopefully they can compete with the much softer Big East.
Baseball is better for my blood pressure. Thank you. I actually enjoyed walking over to the X baseball games. Spend a little time at the park. The leisurely pace. Ahhhhh
After Vandy and Louisville stomped the Muskies, Xavier responded with 4 straight win over MAC foes who will look more like the competition Xavier will see in the Big East. The Muskies are 7-12 now with a trip to Ohio State tomorrow. 11-6-1 Ohio State has a 124 RPI compared to Xavier's 131.
Through 5 innings, the Musketeers are smacking around the Buckeyes 5-2.
So apparently the bullpen sucks, because OSU has a grand slam and a three-run homer the last two innings. 9-6 Ohio State in the 7th.
The Muskies are a rather respectable 10-19 following a 5-4 loss at Ball State today. I sat respectable considering the tough early schedule that led to a 3-12 start and given that Xavier has played 23 of its first 29 on the road. No reason Xavier cannot contend in a bad Big East.
Xavier is 1-0 in the Big East after a big come from behind win at Georgetown.
Xavier greatly improved their chances of making the Big East Tournament by taking 2 of 3 from St. John's over the weekend. St. John's is one of the better teams in the league (came into the series 4-2).
Two 4-1 wins at Butler today, and the Muskies are alone in second place in the Big East at 6-3. They've got a great shot at making the Big East Tournament now with the sweep of Butler, although X still has series to play against Creighton and Seton Hall. Those teams are far and away the class of the Big East, so getting 2 wins in those 6 games would be huge.
Butler, by the way, is 280 in the RPI out of 300 teams. So getting all 3 from them was very important.
Taking 2 of 3 against St. John's is also huge given they're also expected to be one of the 4 teams invited to the Big East Tournament (played in Aberdeen, MD).
So Georgetown is the team Xavier is likely to be fighting for the 4th spot in the Big East Tournament, and the good news is that Georgetown still has to play a series at Creighton. The Hoyas aren't likely to win in Omaha (certainly not more than once). The Hoyas lost 2 of 3 at Butler, and that could be the deciding factor in who gets that 4th spot in Aberdeen.
Do we know the times for the games in Aberdeen? I am hoping to attend if we end up making it.
Also, does anyone know if there are any 2016 or 2017 draft prospects on this years Xavier team?
Xavier won their opener at Seton Hall last night; one more win this weekend should keep them no worse than tied for 2nd in the Big East.
Creighton also beat Georgetown, which was nice. If the Hoyas get swept in Omaha, they're going to have an almost impossible task to catch Xavier, and they're the only ones that can keep up from 4th at worst.
Xavier won again today and is up 3-0 in game 2 of the doubleheader. Aberdeen here we come.
Hoping it's the 3:30 game and I can leave work a bit early.Quote:
Originally Posted by GoMuskies
Make it 8-0. Xavier sent in the Navy SEALs.
8 in a row. Tough series coming up this weekend @ home with jays.
Georgetown beat Creighton today. 2 of 3 from the Jays this weekend in Cincy, and X is in first place in the Big East.
One thing amazing about Xavier's weekend sweep was that Seton Hall was 19-2 at home going into the weekend series. Now the Pirates are in danger of not making the Big East tournament; they still have series remaining with St. John's (tossup) at home and Butler on the road. Georgetown only has a series at home against last-place Villanova.
Creighton is a Top 25 team in some of the polls; getting 2 out of 3 would be huge.