TicketsUniversity of Cincinnati baseball is ready to start play in the 2019 American Athletic Conference tournament being held this week in Clearwater, Florida.
The No. 2 Bearcats will play No. 7 Memphis on Tuesday at 4 p.m. in the first round. The winner will have Wednesday off and play again on Thursday. The loser will play in an elimination game on Wednesday.
// TOURNAMENT HISTORY
• With the No. 2 seed this year the Bearcats enter their postseason conference tournament with their highest seed since 2008 when they were also the No. 2 as a member of the Big East
• UC has yet to win a game in Clearwater, going 0-10 in the five years of AAC play
• Last season the Bearcats were the No. 6 seed and lost 6-2 to No. 3 UConn and 9-4 to No. 2 USF
• Two of UC's ten losses came in extra-innings, including a 15-14 ten-inning defeat to Memphis in 2017 to end the season
• No. 4 ECU won the tournament last season with No. 2 Houston taking it in 2017, No. 3 UConn in 2016 and No. 2 ECU again in 2015
• Houston won the first AAC Tournament in 2014 as the No. 3 seed
// TOURNAMENT DETAILS
• The tournament is double-elimination format with the champion receiving an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament
• The tournament's schedule has been modified for this season
• All eight teams will play on Tuesday with the losers of those four games facing off in elimination games on Wednesday
• The winners of Tuesday's contests will have Wednesday off and play each other on Thursday
• Games continue on Friday with two more elimination games
• Saturday will be semifinal action before the championship game held at noon on Sunday
• Full details on the tournament are available at TheAmerican.org
// REWRITING THE RECORD BOOK
• The Bearcats have posted many new program and individual records so far this season and have found new names in the top-ten records
• With 440 strikeouts, the UC pitching staff has set a program record
• A current fielding percentage of .978 ranks as the second-best all-time
• A.J. Bumpass is the AAC and UC's career leader in triples when he hit his 13th earlier this year
• Korren Thompson's ten saves is tied for the third-most in a single season and puts him in a tie for fifth in the career rankings
• David Orndorff is currently 9th in career appearances, tied for 8th in career starts and is 6th in career innings pitched; he will add to all of those after his start on Tuesday
• A.J. Kullman sits tied for 8th in career appearances and tied for 9th in career saves
// HITTING THE BOOKS
• UC posted a 3.243 team GPA this past spring semester, continuing its success in the classroom
• 27 members of the team earned a 3.0 or higher to be named to the Honor Roll
• 15 student-athletes landed on the Dean's List with a 3.4 or higher
• Tanner Schimmoeller was the lone TopCat with a perfect 4.0 spring GPA
• Overall, the athletics department brought in a 3.372 cumulative GPA, a record-breaking mark
// FOLLOW THE BEARCATS
Stay connected with Bearcats Baseball on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
The No. 2 Bearcats will play No. 7 Memphis on Tuesday at 4 p.m. in the first round. The winner will have Wednesday off and play again on Thursday. The loser will play in an elimination game on Wednesday.
// TOURNAMENT HISTORY
• With the No. 2 seed this year the Bearcats enter their postseason conference tournament with their highest seed since 2008 when they were also the No. 2 as a member of the Big East
• UC has yet to win a game in Clearwater, going 0-10 in the five years of AAC play
• Last season the Bearcats were the No. 6 seed and lost 6-2 to No. 3 UConn and 9-4 to No. 2 USF
• Two of UC's ten losses came in extra-innings, including a 15-14 ten-inning defeat to Memphis in 2017 to end the season
• No. 4 ECU won the tournament last season with No. 2 Houston taking it in 2017, No. 3 UConn in 2016 and No. 2 ECU again in 2015
• Houston won the first AAC Tournament in 2014 as the No. 3 seed
// TOURNAMENT DETAILS
• The tournament is double-elimination format with the champion receiving an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament
• The tournament's schedule has been modified for this season
• All eight teams will play on Tuesday with the losers of those four games facing off in elimination games on Wednesday
• The winners of Tuesday's contests will have Wednesday off and play each other on Thursday
• Games continue on Friday with two more elimination games
• Saturday will be semifinal action before the championship game held at noon on Sunday
• Full details on the tournament are available at TheAmerican.org
// REWRITING THE RECORD BOOK
• The Bearcats have posted many new program and individual records so far this season and have found new names in the top-ten records
• With 440 strikeouts, the UC pitching staff has set a program record
• A current fielding percentage of .978 ranks as the second-best all-time
• A.J. Bumpass is the AAC and UC's career leader in triples when he hit his 13th earlier this year
• Korren Thompson's ten saves is tied for the third-most in a single season and puts him in a tie for fifth in the career rankings
• David Orndorff is currently 9th in career appearances, tied for 8th in career starts and is 6th in career innings pitched; he will add to all of those after his start on Tuesday
• A.J. Kullman sits tied for 8th in career appearances and tied for 9th in career saves
// HITTING THE BOOKS
• UC posted a 3.243 team GPA this past spring semester, continuing its success in the classroom
• 27 members of the team earned a 3.0 or higher to be named to the Honor Roll
• 15 student-athletes landed on the Dean's List with a 3.4 or higher
• Tanner Schimmoeller was the lone TopCat with a perfect 4.0 spring GPA
• Overall, the athletics department brought in a 3.372 cumulative GPA, a record-breaking mark
// FOLLOW THE BEARCATS
Stay connected with Bearcats Baseball on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.