The Nebraska baseball team’s season has been - to be kind - underwhelming so far in 2025. The Huskers were expected to compete for the Big Ten crown and be a shoo-in for at least an at-large bid to the postseason. Both of those hopes are hanging by a thread. They’d be dead if not for who is coming to town this weekend.
The Huskers are hosting a scarce mid-season non-conference series against the No. 5 team in the country. Even winning two out of three against the Beavers, NU won’t guarantee a visit to the playoffs, but they will take a big step in that direction.
And all the Nebraska baseball team has to put at least two games together this weekend of a level they haven’t been able to reach all season. They’ve done it once against Vanderbilt, and indeed, it looked like they were about to get rolling. But since then, they’ve posted a losing record and have been abysmal in the Big Ten.
Nebraska baseball has one last shot to save an at-large season
So what’s gone wrong for the Huskers? Almost everything.
Generating runs has been difficult to say the least. Now playing good defense is starting to go away as well. A spring-high five unearned runs — as many as NU’s previous 11 games combined — in Tuesday’s loss at Kansas State came via three errors.
Those errors were amid a trend that has dropped the Cornhuskers from a top-25 fielding team that is one not even in the Top 50.
Will Bolt called the defense “completely unacceptable” and “completely inep.” He’s said things similar to that far too often so far this year.
All of this needs to turn around against Oregon State. Even if they can’t get a series win out of the deal, NU needs to find a way to win at least one and look better. Then they can gear up for a Big Ten run.
“We’ve seen plenty of good teams and we’ve seen other teams show us what the blueprint needs to look like,” Bolt said earlier this week. “We have plenty of guys on our team that have seen what the blueprint needs to look like for Nebraska to win. We just gotta continue to get better.”
The Nebraska baseball team’s season is teetering. It could fall off the cliff, or pull itself back up based on these three (weather allowing) games against Oregon State.