It’s not like the Wichita State baseball team could go out and make a bunch of trades or sign a key free agent after last season’s 26-33 records. That’s not how college baseball works.
The Shockers and their coach, Todd Butler, are banking on new recruits, comebacks from injuries and added experience to overcome the worst record since Gene Stephenson resurrected the baseball program in 1978.
Wichita State has won one Missouri Valley Conference baseball championship since 2009. In 28 seasons from 1981-2008, the Shockers won 22, including 14 in a row from 1987-2000.
The 1989 College World Series championship seems like it happened a million years ago.