Here are some of the top articles from around the nation for May 26th.
NCAA should be embarrassed for snubbing Wolf Pack
The National Collegiate Athletic Association should be embarrassed for leaving the Nevada Wolf Pack baseball team out of its 64-team regional field.
A total of 25 teams won 40 or more games in Division I college baseball this season. The Wolf Pack, which finished 41-15 and won the Mountain West regular season championship, was one of them. Just four of those 40-win teams were not selected to play in the NCAARegionals. The Wolf Pack, we found out on Black Monday, was also one of them.
Michigan opens NCAA play against Bradley
Ann Arbor — Having won the Big Ten tournament on Sunday and the conference’s automatic NCAA tourney bid, some of the suspense was taken out of Michigan’s Monday.
The Wolverines watched the NCAA selection show in the clubhouse at the Wilpon Complex on Monday afternoon with less anxiety, but still wanting to know where they would be playing and who their opponent would be.
ND baseball ends nine-year NCAA drought
After nine long years, the drought is finally over the Notre Dame baseball team — and the Irish are going back to a NCAA Regional.
Notre Dame will be the two-seed in the Champaign Regional, the program’s first appearance in the NCAA tournament since 2006.
“I lit up like a Christmas tree
and I was hugging guys all around me,” said senior outfielder and captain Mac Hudgins after the selection show. “It was an excitement I really haven’t had the chance to have in my four years here.”
MSU baseball ‘closely considered’ but left out of NCAAs
The Big Ten received a record number of berths to the NCAA baseball tournament Monday.
Michigan State wasn’t one of them. And for the second time in three seasons, the Spartans’ omission is a controversial one.
Oregon, a team that MSU swept on the road in nonconference play during the regular season, earned an at-large berth to the 64-team field. The Spartans, though, got left out again and were one of the final teams to miss the field, similar to what happened in 2013.
Oregon State Baseball to open Dallas Regional
Columbia Emerges as a Surprising Force in Baseball
On Monday at noon, the Columbia baseball team will gather for what has become a happy, if unlikely, ritual. After practice, team members will go to an athletic complex lounge on 218th Street in Upper Manhattan and watch on television as their program is selected to the 64-team field of the N.C.A.A. tournament.
Tournament regional play is set to begin Friday, and an automatic berth goes to the Ivy League champion, which for the last three years has been the Columbia Lions.
