VESTAL, N.Y. – Binghamton baseball has released its 51-game 2023 schedule and it begins with a three-game set at ACC power Clemson on Feb. 17-19.
The reigning America East champion Bearcats will play their first 12 games on the road in South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia before welcoming Lafayette to the Bearcats Stadium Complex on March 17-19. One week later BU begins its 24-game America East slate with a three-game home set against UMass Lowell – the team Binghamton beat to capture the 2022 conference crown.
In all, the Bearcats will play 27 non-conference games to complement their America East schedule, which culminates in the conference tournament on May 24-27 at BU's new stadium.
"From start to finish, the 2023 schedule is quite a challenge, but I believe this group is up for it," 31-year head coach
Tim Sinicki said. "Our non-conference schedule is filled with outstanding programs, and the America East Conference continues to get better each and every year."
The series at Clemson will be Binghamton's first against a Tigers program that won 35 games a year ago and has made 32 NCAA appearances in the last 35 years and 44 trips all-time (5
th most in country).
The next weekend, BU will head to Winston, Salem, N.C. for the Wake Forest Tournament. There, the Bearcats will open against a Demon Deacons team that went 41-19-1 (24-2 vs. non-conference) and reached the NCAAs. The other games will be against Mt. St. Mary's and Towson.
The first two weekends of March travel will take BU to Virginia for three-game sets at Norfolk State and George Washington. The end of the month features a road game at Big Ten member Penn State (March 21) and a March 28 home doubleheader against a Canisius program that won the MAAC championship and advanced to NCAAs last spring.
Binghamton continues longstanding matchups against New York State rivals Cornell (April 11, April 18, May 2), Siena (April 25) and St. Bonaventure (April 4). The Bearcats will also face former America East foe Hartford, who has since departed the conference.
The 24-game America East slate features six games against first-year member Bryant, who won three NEC titles and was runnerup each of the last three seasons before making the move to the America East. The Bearcats will play home-and-home series' (three games at each site) against Bryant and UMass Lowell and single three-game series' against Maine, NJIT, UMBC and Albany.
The six-team conference championship will be hosted by Binghamton with the champion earning the automatic NCAA berth. The Bearcats captured their fifth title (fourth in last nine years) last spring and traveled to Stanford for the NCAA Regional. The Bearcats return 25 players from that championship roster.
