West Virginia Metro News: Won’t be travesty if WVU’s left out, but ending left us craving more
By Allan Taylor in Sports, WVU Sports
COMMENTARY
Randy Mazey’s best hitter opted for “devastating†to describe Sunday’s near-miss in the Big 12 championship.
That label fits when a desperate team rolls through bracket play, ascends to the winner-take-all final, and then wipes out an 8-0 deficit to climb within reach of an NCAA automatic bid.
Yet beating TCU is never automatic, especially not in the case of West Virginia, which has dropped 11 straight games over three seasons against Mazey’s former program.
TCU, which didn’t need to win the tournament to advance, did so anyway by staging its own ninth-inning rally before hitting a 10th-inning homer. The improbable 11-10 victory means the Frogs will host a postseason regional, while West Virginia must appeal to the NCAA selection committee.
That’s where Mazey sounded his own horn of desperation. …
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