(Photo: Ringo H.W. Chiu, AP)
The Michigan baseball team's immediate rewards for making it to the College World Series: Contact lens solution and a much-needed change of clothes.
The Wolverines had been on the road since May 29, having taken the Corvallis, Oregon, regional by storm, before staying on the west coast to travel to UCLA, the top-seeded team in the NCAA Tournament — which Michigan defeated, two games to one, in the best-of-three Super Regional which came to its dramatic conclusion Sunday night.
Between the Big Ten tournament last month and the NCAA run, Michigan has been on the road for all but a couple of the last 21 days.