Quite a few players were around for the last time these two teams met on the diamond, a heart-breaking extra inning affair that ended with TCU on the wrong side of a 3-2 tally. Brian Howard, Michael Landestoy, and Mitchell Traver were all in Omaha for all 15 innings of #CronSmash fun, though only one will likely see the field in today’s three years in the making rematch.
But these are very different teams now, that will meet in Fort Worth Sunday afternoon (weather permitting). The Frogs, making just their second ever College World Series in 2014, were on the cusp of what would be three straight, while UVA would go on to win it all a year later.