Not sure how we’re backing into the tourney?
Agree, we qualified last weekend by winning to eliminate others from overtaking a qualifying spot from us. We're not backing in.
You could argue if we lose this series against a team who isn't qualifying for the conference tournament, we'd be on a slide going into the tournament, but not backing in. Plus, if we're strategically resting players today given the potentially grueling tournament schedule and the fact we need to win the conference tournament to make the NCAA tournament, I don't mind it. We've already seen it this weekend by sitting Matthew and not throwing Olsen deep into game 1 (65 pitches), and Kaminska only went 69 pitches in game 2. I doubt we'll see Schanaman today since he went 52 Thursday.