BB: UAA: University Athletic Association

[ADL70]

During the broadcast of the CWRU-Chicago series, it was suggested that Chicago will return to UAA for baseball in 2025.

Six teams would mean an autobid, yes?

[DagarmanSpartan]

On that note...........CWRU's current baseball schedule shows a series with Chicago as a UAA series.

If that's true, then yes indeed, the UAA will now have six members for that sport.

So..........based on that......perhaps Pat Coleman could confirm for us whether the UAA champ will have an autobid to the d3 playoffs.

Any word?

https://athletics.case.edu/sports/baseball/schedule

[DagarmanSpartan]

Gang,

To follow up, I just spoke to a high ranking source at CWRU, and yes, Chicago is now a baseball member of the UAA, and the UAA is now an NCAA AQ in baseball and softball.

[Caz Bombers]

yup, Division III dropping its AQ minimum from 7 teams to 6 was key for the UAA getting baseball and softball AQs. They'll have 6 for baseball and 7 for softball - Rochester will remain in the Liberty League for both sports.

[deiscanton]

Chicago will make its UAA baseball debut at Brandeis with a 4 game series in Waltham, MA with 1 game on Friday, March 28, a doubleheader on Saturday, March 29, and a game on Sunday, March 30.

UAA baseball conference play will consist of 4 game weekends, while softball conference play will consist of 3 game weekends-- as the softball conference has 1 extra team.  Carnegie Mellon does not participate in baseball in the UAA.

[DagarmanSpartan]

Actually, CWRU's softball schedule reflects otherwise.

It does indeed show six softball opponents (in a seven team UAA conference schedule).  However, it shows Carnegie-Mellon to be one of those UAA series opponents, and not Rochester.

See here.

https://athletics.case.edu/sports/softball/schedule

Wash U-St. Louis 21-22 MAR
Emory 4-5 APR
NYU 11-12 APR
Chicago 18-19 APR
Brandeis 25-26 APR
Carnegie-Mellon 8-9 MAY

For baseball, the five opponents for a six team conference schedule are WashU, Emory, Chicago, NYU, and Brandeis.

Either way though, great to see the UAA finally be an AQ in every team sport that they sponsor!

[DagarmanSpartan]

CWRU starts off the inaugural UAA season 4-1.  Ahead of Emory 2-1 thus far in today's double header.

[ADL70]

Inaugural?

[DagarmanSpartan]

This is the first year that the UAA is a full table baseball conference with an auto bid for the champion.

INAUGURAL season as a full schedule baseball conference.

CWRU won again today to move to 6-1 in conference.  7-1 if they complete the sweep of Emory today.

[DagarmanSpartan]

Doh.  CWRU drops the last game against Emory.

6-2 in UAA action.

[DagarmanSpartan]

Looks like next weekend's four game series between CWRU (6-2) and Chicago (7-1) could very well decide the conference race.

[Ralph Turner]

I went to the UAA home page to look it over. The webpages showing the season's results for each team do not list the non-UAA opponents, only the outcome of the game.

I have not seen that on any other conference website team space across all of D3.

Here is CWRU's page for the 2025 season.

https://uaasports.info/schedule.aspx?schedule=1045

[DagarmanSpartan]

That is VERY strange indeed.

Actually, it's a bit lazy.  How hard is it for the website manager to simply look at any school's athletic homepage and update the information?  Geesh.

[ADL70]

This weekend it's #24 CWRU at #21 Chicago

[DagarmanSpartan]

CWRU takes 3 of 4 from #21 Chicago on the road to move into first place in the UAA.