Oklahoma State baseball has a proud tradition

OSU basebakk coach Josh Holliday watches from the dugout in Lubbock. (AP Photo)The Oklahoma State baseball season ended Sunday night with an 8-6 loss to Texas Tech in the deciding Game 3 of the NCAA Super Regional in Lubbock, Texas. But by any stretch, it was an outstanding season for the Cowboys. A Big 12 Tournament championship and a robust postseason that had the Cowboys on the brink of another College World Series berth.

But that’s not unexpected.

We sometimes think of OSU baseball as being the Gary Ward glory years, and everything else as trying to live up to Ward’s remarkable 19-year tenure, which included 16 straight conference championships 10 College World Series appearances,…