There was only one team that won 40 games in the American Athletic Conference last season. That team was the Tulane Green Wave, who quickly ascended to the upper echelon of the conference with back-to-back NCAA Tournament bids after a 23-29 finish in 2014, their last Conference-USA
2016 Review
As I said, for the second-straight season, the Tulane Green Wave enjoyed time in the NCAA Tournament in 2016.
Before the postseason, the team posted 11 series victories and took claim to the No. 1 seed in the AAC tourney. One of the few series the Green Wave dropped came against the Cincinnati Bearcats, who pitched their way to a 2-1 victory on April 15, lost a 1-0 pitching duel on April 16 and then blasted to a 7-4 decision on the last day of the series.