CHARLESTON, W.Va. — This Marshall team was picked dead last in the preseason in Conference USA, but that was the norm for Marshall baseball which had exactly been tearing it up in college baseball over nearly 40 years:
- Marshall baseball had no winning seasons since 1994.
- The Herd had not been championships since 1981 — 38 years ago — coming in the Southern Conference as tri-SoCon champs, then losing the NCAA bid to ETSU in a three-team playoff before the SC started having a post-season tournament (in 1984).
- MU had not made the Conference USA Tournament since 2010, and only made it in four times (2010-09-08-06) since joining league that first year, and were tournament runner’s up in ’08.