By Pat James, GoHeels.com
So many times throughout this season, even as recently as two weeks ago, North Carolina could've had its doubts.
The Tar Heels entered this season as a consensus top-10 team, buoyed by a pitching staff that was considered to be among college baseball's best. Perhaps just as importantly, though, they returned 19 players who lettered on last season's College World Series squad. And armed with experience from their initial Omaha voyage, they expected not only to return but to win there.
UNC still needs two more wins to book a return trip to that glorified city on the Nebraska-Iowa border.