Big East baseball

[Omaha1]

Ideally we could hold the tournament at TD Ameritrade every year. Even if it gives Creighton an advantage, I'd rather have the tournament generate revenue than be a drag that nobody watches.

With Nebraska in the final Big 10 game, they packed in just short of 20,000 into the TD Ameritrade for the championship game. That was a national record for a conference final. It looks like Omaha will support college baseball. The picture shown earlier in this thread would be a bad crowd at a high school game. If the Big Ten gives us an opening for Omaha, take it.

The Big Ten is going back to Minnesota next season so Omaha is an option for the Big East. We'll never see crowds like they did this weekend for Big 10 with us having only a handful of games and just 4 teams in the tournament, but even a few thousand would be better than what we got in Brooklyn.

[Jet915]

Ideally we could hold the tournament at TD Ameritrade every year. Even if it gives Creighton an advantage, I'd rather have the tournament generate revenue than be a drag that nobody watches.

With Nebraska in the final Big 10 game, they packed in just short of 20,000 into the TD Ameritrade for the championship game. That was a national record for a conference final. It looks like Omaha will support college baseball. The picture shown earlier in this thread would be a bad crowd at a high school game. If the Big Ten gives us an opening for Omaha, take it.

The Big Ten is going back to Minnesota next season so Omaha is an option for the Big East. We'll never see crowds like they did this weekend for Big 10 with us having only a handful of games and just 4 teams in the tournament, but even a few thousand would be better than what we got in Brooklyn.

Yeah, my guess is next year, with the Big East tournament in Omaha, the Creighton games will get 4-6K a game and the non-Creighton games will probably get 500-1K people. That is more than the <100 people at the games at MCU park.

[Barley]

If you're going to have a tournament, it needs to be somewhere where people will watch it. Not having a tournament actually makes a fair amount of sense too though.

[Jet915]

Creighton Bluejays ‏@gocreighton 23m
Creighton will host the 2015 BIG EAST Baseball Tournament, May 21-24, at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha.

Not surprising.

[Omaha1]

St. John's loses to Vanderbilt 2-0 in their NCAA opener.

[Omaha1]

Creighton sweeps Villanova to claim the 2019 regular season title and earn the top seed in the conference tourney in Cincy this week. XU is the 2 seed.

[Omaha1]

Jays close out Xavier 9-8 last night to secure the automatic bid. Not sure if that was a Little League park or what, but the number of homeruns in just a couple days probably exceeded what these teams hit all season. Crazy offensive explosion.

[Omaha1]

Jays lose 6-0 to Michigan in their ncaa opener today. Putrid performance all around.

[BluejaysForThree]

Creighton leading Michigan 2-0 in the Bottom of the 3rd in the Corvallis Regional Final game. The game is on ESPN2 for anyone who is interested to see what happens.

A CU win tonight earns them a Super Regional berth next weekend - against either UCLA (in Los Angeles) or Loyola Marymount (in Omaha). Go Jays! And if they win, go Loyola!!!

Road to Homaha!

[redmen9194]

Ed Blankmeyer, winningest baseball coach in Big East history and St. John's history resigns to take position managing Mets' minor league team in Brooklyn. 11 NCAA Tournament appearances, 6 Big East Regular season Championships, 5 Big East Tourny Championships, and 8 time conference coach of the year. Big loss for the Johnnies.