Despite being a program that plays in a "mid-major conference," the Green Wave are anything but middling.
When people think about power schools, they often focus on the perceived power conferences. Leagues like the ACC and SEC wield unholy amounts of power in college sports, and as a result, they have the most recognizable brands across the landscape. It's something that's driven primarily by football and basketball, but it's something that's spilled into lesser followed sports like lacrosse, soccer, and baseball.
Like some of the other sports, however, college baseball is known to have schools known as baseball schools playing in baseball conferences.