Walking around downtown Omaha near TD Ameritrade Park, there are a bevy of colors massing the sidewalks, restaurants, and hotel lobbies. Maroon for Mississippi State. Reds for Stanford, NC State, and Arizona. Black for Vanderbilt. Three shades of orange, including those clad in Virginia gear.
It had been six years since the Cavaliers had been to the College World Series, and Virginia fans were clamoring to get back on the scene. Among those fans is Cricket Morris, a Wahoo fan from Richmond, VA. Cricket and her husband John, a former track and field athlete from Virginia, traveled to Nebraska with an extra good luck charm: a magic bean of sorts.