Nat LeDonne / Duke Athletics
March had just turned into April and Duke baseball coach Chris Pollard was lying in bed wondering and worrying.
“I remember laying there and staring at the ceiling that night and kind of wondering how we’re going to get through this, especially with the stretch of games that we have coming up,” Pollard told the media in early May.
Duke had just opened an ACC series, hosting Pittsburgh. The ACC has some baseball programs with great traditions but Pitt isn’t one of them. They’ve appeared in the NCAA Tournament three times, most recently in 1995.