Just when you thought you could focus your sporting attention to the professional ranks of the NBA and NHL, here comes the NCAA baseball tournament to make you think otherwise. Your MAC fandom should be placed squarely behind the Central Michigan Chippewas as they take on the Miami-Florida Hurricanes at 8PM tonight in the Starkville, MS regional opener for both squads.
CMU, your MAC tourney champion, enters the tournament for the first time since 1995 fresh off a MAC regular-season and MAC tourney title. Miami, a baseball blue blood, is making their first regional appearance since 2016, after 44 consecutive tournament berths, 30 regional titles (also an NCAA record), and four national titles.