2026 Baseball

[Udforever1]

Schedule hasn’t been released yet, but heard today that the Hens will play a 3 game series at Mississippi State. The Bulldogs won a national championship in 2021.

Lot of new players offensively this year and fairly inexperienced pitching staff. Should be an interesting first year in CUSA.

[BlueHenBill]

Schedule hasn’t been released yet, but heard today that the Hens will play a 3 game series at Mississippi State. The Bulldogs won a national championship in 2021.

Lot of new players offensively this year and fairly inexperienced pitching staff. Should be an interesting first year in CUSA.

Udforever1, Thanks for posting. Miss. St.'s 2026 schedule shows UD there for a 3 game series from Fri., Feb 20 thru Sun, Feb 22.

[Udforever1]

Hens have picked up commitments this week from two pitchers for the class of 2026 that were originally committed to P4 programs. AJ Saccento who was a verbal to Duke, and Tim Dougherty, who was verbaled to West Virginia.

[Udforever1]

Full schedule released.

https://bluehens.com/news/2025/11/25/ba ... 6-schedule

[East Coaster]

Even though they are two of the closest Division 1 schools to Newark, Navy and Villanova once again are not on the schedule for some unexplained reason. Navy has not been a regular season opponent for at least 50 years, with just a couple of exceptions. The bus regularly drives further south to the D.C. area schools but won’t stop in Annapolis. We used to play Villanova regularly but now go routinely go further to Rider, Rutgers, Lehigh, and Lafayette, even though the Wildcats were supposedly a rival on the gridiron.

[LifetimeHensFan]

Even though they are two of the closest Division 1 schools to Newark, Navy and Villanova once again are not on the schedule for some unexplained reason. Navy has not been a regular season opponent for at least 50 years, with just a couple of exceptions. The bus regularly drives further south to the D.C. area schools but won’t stop in Annapolis. We used to play Villanova regularly but now go routinely go further to Rider, Rutgers, Lehigh, and Lafayette, even though the Wildcats were supposedly a rival on the gridiron.

I've heard rumors that because we can never beat Villanova ever, the athletic department does not allow them on our schedule

Football (We all know how that goes)
MBB - 0-16 ( but I'll give them a break)
MLAX - 11-15 including 5 game losing streak

Our women's sports have a pretty decent record against them though, maybe it's just a football men's lacrosse problem

[BlueHenBill]

Even though they are two of the closest Division 1 schools to Newark, Navy and Villanova once again are not on the schedule for some unexplained reason. Navy has not been a regular season opponent for at least 50 years, with just a couple of exceptions. The bus regularly drives further south to the D.C. area schools but won’t stop in Annapolis. We used to play Villanova regularly but now go routinely go further to Rider, Rutgers, Lehigh, and Lafayette, even though the Wildcats were supposedly a rival on the gridiron.

I've heard rumors that because we can never beat Villanova ever, the athletic department does not allow them on our schedule

Football (We all know how that goes)
MBB - 0-16 ( but I'll give them a break)
MLAX - 11-15 including 5 game losing streak

Our women's sports have a pretty decent record against them though, maybe it's just a football men's lacrosse problem

UD Baseball history vs. Nova -

The University of Delaware leads the series history against Villanova with 41 wins to Villanova's 31, plus two ties. The first game was in 1896, and most recently, the teams have split the last 10 matchups. Delaware has a strong home record of 28-24-2 against Villanova, while the away record is 7-4.
Series Overview
Total Games: 74
Delaware Wins: 41
Villanova Wins: 31
Ties: 2
First Game: April 25, 1896, a 18-15 Delaware win
Last 10 Games: 5-5 record

[UDFootballFan]

39 days until their first game against Elon.

Cant wait to see how the team develops.

[Udforever1]

Hens picked 11th out of 12 in the pre season CUSA poll.

https://conferenceusa.com/news/2026/1/2 ... wards.aspx

[Hengrad07]

Hens picked 11th out of 12 in the pre season CUSA poll.

https://conferenceusa.com/news/2026/1/2 ... wards.aspx

How long until this board calls for the HC to be fired - 3 year record of 89-80, including
3 wins vs DSU?

2 seasons in CUSA, or just 1, if they finish in 11th place as predicted?

[UDFootballFan]

WIth baseball, I dont see them being the top 5 or even top 7 of the league UNLESS they make major changes and keep talent in Newark. They def have to recruit the south [FL, LA, GA, etc] to get better

[frmrbluehen]

With the change in the total number of full scholarships to 34, hopefully the baseball team can start recruiting better prospects. Max rosters are now 34 players and all of which can obviously receive a full scholarship. As opposed to previous years, when the total scholarships were just under 12 with a 40 man roster. Will have to see how that has an effect on the type of players that come into Newark.

[bluehenbillk]

With the change in the total number of full scholarships to 34, hopefully the baseball team can start recruiting better prospects. Max rosters are now 34 players and all of which can obviously receive a full scholarship. As opposed to previous years, when the total scholarships were just under 12 with a 40 man roster. Will have to see how that has an effect on the type of players that come into Newark.

I have zero inside information as of today but I’d be shocked if UD was halfway or more towards 34 scholarships.

[Udforever1]

Hens open up the season with 3 at Elon this weekend. Not expecting much this year but we’ll see.

[UDFootballFan]

I hope we can figure it out early but really never see them being a top 5-6 team or better.