Well, here it is.
A brief refresh for everyone on the post-COVID changes for the league.
- 24 game conference schedule
- conference tournament will remain at 8 teams.
- two divisions of 6. East will consist of FAU, FIU, WKU, ODU, Marshall, and Charlotte. West will consist of USM, UAB, MTSU, LaTech, Rice, and UTSA. It's unknown how seedings will work for the conference tourney and if they will be split by divisions
- each team will play every team in their division and their closest team twice. Presumably, the pairings are as follows: FAU-FIU, Charlotte-ODU, Marshall-WKU, USM-LaTech, UAB-MTSU, and Rice-UTSA
- each team will play two crossover opponents from the opposite division
- league play will begin on March 26th. This is one week later than usual. The final week of the regular season will serve as a bye weekend. Teams have the option to play a non-conference series that weekend or take the week off and rest up for the tourney
- the conference tournament has been moved to Ruston on the campus of Louisiana Tech. This marks the first time since 2016 that the tourney is on a campus and the first time since 2013 that it has left the state of Mississippi. The tourney will go to Hattiesburg in 2022 and Houston in 2023.
Here's the 2021 scheduling sheet. Robert Woodard from Charlotte leaked a few of their series and those have been added.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...sp=sharing
The draft ended on Thursday. Logan Allen (FIU) and Trei Cruz (Rice) were taken. 2 C-USA players have signed free agent deals, per D1. Francisco Urbaez (FAU) to the Reds and Jose Garcia (FIU) to the Red Sox.
https://d1baseball.com/prospects/2020-co...s-tracker/
A few high-profile prep players are seemingly headed to play in C-USA. OF Slade Wilks, a USM commit, went undrafted. He's one of the top 30 prospects that went undrafted, per MLB Pipeline and was #111 overall. INF Steven Ondina (FIU) and 2B Gino Groover (Charlotte) were also top 200 prospects per MLB Pipeline and went undrafted. OF Mario Zabala, an FIU signee, has been ranked highly by various sites and went undrafted.
C-USA teams have hit the transfer portal this summer. Rice added INF Hal Hughes from LSU and SS Connor Walsh from Ole Miss. Hughes was a starter for LSU last season and Walsh was a highly-rated prospect coming out of HS in 2019. FIU has added RHP Garrett Rukes from Alabama and and INF Austin James from Missouri.