East Carolina baseball team’s 2017 season was a disappointment. There’s no denying that. Defeating No. 1 seed Central Florida twice, along with beating South Florida, to reach the title game of the American Athletic Conference Baseball Championship doesn’t make up for the failure to match preseason expectations.
Coming off a season in 2016 where ECU fell a game short of reaching the College World Series, the Pirates made no secret of their goal this year to reach Omaha, Nebraska and win it all. This optimism within the team was matched by the preseason prognosticators. Baseball America placed ECU at No.