NCAA Division I Baseball Selection Committee adds four new members • D1Baseball

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Kendall Rogers – September 23, 2024

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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 resigned from the 10-person committee this fall – including 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 replacement of 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, Scott Dolson from Indiana (term expiring 2027), Jon Gilbert from East Carolina (term expiring 2027), Michael Alford from Florida (term expires in 2027), Casey Scott of Kansas (term expires in 2027) and Florida athletic director Scott Stricklin, whose term does not 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 – KPI (Kevin Pauga Index) as one of the metrics considered for selection. Sources close to the committee told D1Baseball this past summer that KPI wasn’t a ‘big deal’ in terms of the 2024 NCAA tournament options, but we’ll see it have a bigger emphasis in 2025.

Another metric that may gain inspiration from the committee in the coming months is DSR (Diamond Sports Rankings), which came up with 643 Charts and D1Baseball. You can see an example of how DSR ranked teams this past season, here.