COMMENTARY
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Thirteen times previously, Randy Mazey had been a coach or player on NCAA regional baseball teams. Yet his emotion surrounding No. 14 had a newness to it.
His voice quivered and his eyes could have watered an infield as Mazey recounted the mission undertaken on Selection Monday a year ago, when West Virginia narrowly missed an at-large bid. That made 21 consecutive years of no postseason.
There won’t be a 22nd.
“This is a moment in time these kids will never forget,” Mazey said yesterday, his team freshly pegged as a No.