For just the third time in Mike Bianco’s 17 years at the helm in Oxford, his team will be watching the NCAA Baseball Tournament from home. Ole Miss, which finished sub-.500 in SEC play and washed out of the conference tourney in just one game, wasn’t included in the field of 64 that was announced on Monday afternoon.
The Rebels finished 14-16 in league play, a mark considered to be the absolute cutoff for an NCAA invite. Five of the last seven clubs to win 14 SEC games had made it in, but all of them had top-30 RPIs.