UConn baseball’s final season in the American Athletic Conference was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The American, with its 24 conference games full of strong RPI opponents, was an ideal baseball location for a school in the Northeast like UConn, where there are few high-end baseball programs with which to compete.
Overall, the Big East is a better regional fit for all sports and a cultural fit for the Huskies’ men’s and women’s basketball teams. The move also allowed the football program to go independent and play more relevant opponents.
The only program that doesn’t benefit from this move is the baseball team, who will shift from one of the best baseball conferences in the country to one of the more mediocre.