MUNCIE, Ind. — "We're not going in there scared."
That was the Ball State baseball head coach Rich Maloney sent to his team on Monday. The Cardinals enter their NCAA Regional tournament bracket as the lowest seed and will play No. 12 overall seed and host Kentucky in Friday's first round at noon on the SEC Network.
On paper, BSU (36-21) is the weakest team in a field that features the Wildcats (36-18), who stem from the heralded Southeastern Conference, as well as Indiana (41-18) and West Virginia (39-18).
But the Cardinals don't feel that way.