Good ol Rocky Top, Rocky Top Tennessee.
If you’re not sick of that venerable chestnut now, you will be by the end of the weekend, a weekend that hopefully will end with Duke’s baseball team advancing out of Knoxville to a Super Regional.
Duke played its way off the NCAA bubble into a second seed in last week’s memorable week in Charlotte.
But getting out of Knoxville with an advancement won’t be easy. The Volunteers are the nation’s third seed and are fifth in the RPI. Duke is 20th in the RPI. Based on Duke’s RPI, they should have been the second seed in a regional where the top seed was somebody in the 12 to 16 range; Greenville, North Carolina, perhaps.