There is very little question that this baseball season was an unmitigated success. Yes, it hurt to blow a 4-0 lead yesterday in the regional (even though we probably lose to North Carolina in the evening game anyway, as they beat Houston 19-11), but the year itself was far from disappointing. Purdue won 38 games, the second most in any single season. It reached the NCAA Tournament for only the third time ever. The 14-4 win over North Carolina A&T was only the second win in our NCAA history (now 2-6 in three appearances). For a team that was picked to finish 11th in the conference and was 10-44 just two years ago, it was an enormous step forward.