By Jim Sumner, GoDuke the Magazine
Some athletic teams have a season in which everything goes right, the storm clouds part, the rainbows come out, unicorns and bunnies frolic in the grass.
It’s easy to turn that into something special.
But that’s not what happened to Duke baseball this season. Injuries and illnesses mounted, close losses followed and the Blue Devils entered Selection Monday having lost eight of their final 11 games.
It’s not easy to turn that kind of season into something special.
But Duke did exactly that, running the table in the Morgantown Regional, beating host West Virginia once and Texas A&M twice, to secure a berth in an NCAA Super Regional for the second straight season.