Because college baseball begins over a month earlier than the major league teams, the Sooners were already a third of the way into the season, with 14 wins in 18 games and ranked 13th in the last USA Today College Baseball Top 25 before the remainder of the season was shuttered.
Who knows what would have happened if the rest of the season had not been cancelled, but with two wins already over ranked opponents, it appeared that this could have been a good year for Oklahoma baseball.
That got me thinking about other strong seasons — as in College World Series-strong years, of which there haven’t been many in the last quarter of a century.