NCAA Division I Baseball Selection Committee adds four new members
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The NCAA Division I Baseball Selection Committee will have four new members for the 2025 season, D1Baseball has learned.
Four committee members have dropped off the 10-person committee this fall — they include Army athletic director Mike Buddie, Air Force athletic director Nathan Pine, Utah athletic director Mark Harlan and former Coastal Carolina athletic director Matt Hogue. Those conferences include the Patriot League, Mountain West, Big 12 and Sun Belt.
The replacements for those committee members will have terms that expire after the 2028 college baseball season. They include Southern Miss athletic director Jeremy McClain (Sun Belt), Jacksonville State athletic director Greg Seitz (Conference USA, Kent State athletic director Randale Richmond (Mid-American) and Portland athletic director Scott Leykam (WCC).
Other committee members for the 2025 season include committee chairman Jay Artigues from Southeastern Louisiana, Indiana’s Scott Dolson (term expires 2027), East Carolina’s Jon Gilbert (term expires 2027), Florida State’s Michael Alford (term expires 2027), Kansas State’s Casey Scott (term expires 2027) and Florida athletic director Scott Stricklin, whose term doesn’t expire until 2028.
It will be interesting to see how the transparency of the selection committee improves under Artigues and beyond. For the first time in a while this past season, the committee used a new metric — the KPI (Kevin Pauga Index) as one of the metrics considered for selections. Sources close to the committee told D1Baseball this past summer that the KPI was not a ‘big’ factor in terms of selections for the 2024 NCAA tournament, but we will see if it has a greater emphasis in 2025.
Another metric that could gain steam with the committee in the coming months is the DSR (Diamond Sports Rankings), which originated with 643 Charts and D1Baseball. You can see an example of how the DSR lined teams up this past season, here.
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