The last time it happened was in 1996 - five years before 9-11.
Twenty-one years is an awful long time between NCAA Tournament appearances for a school with West Virginia University’s pedigree, and although Mazey has only been around here since 2013, he is the one who had to do the explaining when impressionable young recruits asked him why it has taken so long to get back.
So, why did it take so long?
“If you look back at some of the programs that go to Omaha consistently, when they made the decision as a University to be good at baseball, they became good at baseball,” Mazey explained.