Spivey last year was named conference pitcher of the year while serving in an unusual role out of the bullpen. Pitcher of the year: Carter Spivey, RHP, East Carolina. Jenkins-Cowart will be at the heart of everything for ECU this spring. He was particularly good in the postseason, as he went 14-for-41 with four home runs during the conference tournament, regionals and super regionals. Jenkins-Cowart is coming off a Freshman All-American season that saw him hit. Player of the year: Jacob Jenkins-Cowart, OF, East Carolina. Anyone that wants to join ECU in regionals will have to prove it on the diamond this spring. It should return to multi-bid status in 2023, but the days of that being a lock seem to have passed for now. The American was just a one-bid league last year, though ECU did earn a top-eight national seed. UCF and Houston are perhaps the teams best positioned to stop the Pirates, as they look to go out with a bang.
But this realignment is much larger and has the potential to completely change the conference’s position in the sport.īut, for one more season, the American as we’ve come to know it will exist and East Carolina will aim for a four-peat as conference champion. The conference has previously experienced the departures of Louisville, Rutgers (one year after the conference was created) and Connecticut (2020) and added Wichita State (2018). Following this season, the American will undergo radical realignment again, as Central Florida, Cincinnati and Houston will depart the conference for the Big 12 and Alabama-Birmingham, Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, North Texas (which doesn’t play baseball), Rice and Texas-San Antonio will all join from Conference USA. The American Athletic Conference was created in 2013 out of conference realignment and, after a decade, its first chapter as a conference is coming to a close.
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