The 2021 Gators baseball team entered the season with perhaps the highest expectations of any squad in school history.
They returned almost every key contributor from a team that finished the truncated 2020 season with a 16-1 record. They were ranked the preseason No. 1 team by every publication. They were expected to hang the second national championship in program history or at least come close to it.
Boy do those days feel like a distant memory.
The No. 15 national seed Gators went out with a whimper on Saturday afternoon. South Alabama defeated them 19-1 to end their season.