The regular season is coming to an end for Gopher baseball. A team that was slotted to finish 4th or 5th in the Big Ten is a couple games away from wrapping up a conference championship and has their sites set on hosing an NCAA Regional.
What is it going to take for that to happen? It won’t come easily.
For those of you who aren’t aware, there are 16 teams who will get to host the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament. RPI is a decent indicator of which teams will earn that right. It is an indicator, though it isn’t necessarily as easy as saying the top 16 teams in RPI will host.