Death, taxes, and the Miami Hurricanes making the NCAA baseball regionals. For 44 years, all three were certain to happen.
But that all changed in May 2017, when the Canes were left out of the 64-team field for the first time in since 1972.
44 NCAA regionals, 25 College World Series appearances, and four national titles bookended each end of the streak.
The disappointment of 2017 carried into ‘18, as the Canes fell to 17-25 in late April. An 11-game winning streak that stretched into the ACC tournament gave the team some hope, but it was not enough to salvage the final season of Jim Morris’ storied, quarter-century career in Coral Gables.