How much does 44 years of history weigh? That is what these Miami Hurricanes baseball players carry onto the field with them in Louisville Tuesday to begin the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.
Will such a thing lift a team, or crush it?
“The blessing and the curse,” coach Jim Morris calls The Streak.
Every year since 1973, uninterupted, UM has qualified for the NCAA Tournament. Morris has lived it so he mentions nonchalantly what is so extraordinary as he calls it (ho hum) “a streak unmatched in any sport in NCAA history.”
Yes, for nearly a half century South Florida could set its clock on UM being in college baseball's national playoffs every year.