(Photo: Ringo H.W. Chiu, Associated Press)
Ann Arbor — This isn’t supposed to happen, historically or geographically. Big Ten teams and cold-weather teams don’t crack the college baseball elite, almost never.
A lot of things weren’t supposed to happen for Michigan, which is headed to the College World Series for the first time since 1984. The Wolverines (46-20) will face Texas Tech (44-18) in Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, and they enter the eight-team field with the longest odds, yet again. The truth is, it takes a whole heap of improbabilities to make something like this happen.