“The goal of our team is to be the team no one wants to play.”
That’s Duke baseball’s star shortstop Alex Mooney, who added that Duke has a “chip on our shoulder. We’re going out there to try to take what we feel like we deserve and what we’ve earned.”
Last season Duke wasn’t the team no one wanted to play. Not at the end, anyway.
The 2022 Duke baseball team began the season nationally ranked in multiple polls. Excluding the 2020 season which was canceled early on due to covid-19, Duke had advanced to the NCAA Tournament four of the five previous seasons, reaching a Super Regional in 2018 and 2019.