Their bats and gloves and baseball skills weren't enough Thursday night.
Now, the Miami Hurricanes will have to depend on the 10-member NCAA Division I Baseball Committee — and lots of prayers — to extend legendary coach Jim Morris' career and get the Canes to the NCAA tournament.
Clemson (45-13), with the No. 11 RPI of 297 teams, proved that they're one of the best programs in the nation by eliminating the Hurricanes (28-26) from the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament 7-1 late Thursday in Durham, North Carolina.
The Division I committee will announce on Monday the 64-team field for the NCAA tournament that leads to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska — collegiate baseball's so-called promised land, where Morris brought his Hurricanes 13 times and earned national titles in 1999 and 2001 after taking the UM job in 1994.