I look forward to Baseball America's College Preview issue every year. They had ND fourth in the preseason. They were not chopped liver by any stretch, and getting hosed with seeding in the regional only to win it and go on to face Tennessee shouldn't have made people overlook them.
I'm glad Stanford advanced. If it isn't ND, I hope it's them. The rest is an SEC and SEC in waiting flavor I can really do without. Was really hoping for ECU to pull it off.
Yeah they were top 10 in just about every preseason poll and almost all season; they had one rough patch this season but that's about it.
I think the national narrative, coupled with the NCAA ripping them off with seeding, gave them the chip on their shoulder they needed to take down Tennessee.
If I'm not mistaken, they only lost THREE games at home all year, let alone a series. It was quite the feat, but let's not act like ND came out of nowhere. They gave the eventual national champions all they could handle last year in Starkville in the Super Regional and should have been seeded in this tournament.