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re: TIL that the 1982 Wichita St. Shockers finished CWS runners up with a record of 73-14...
Posted on 4/17/24 at 3:05 pm to Temple of the Dog
Posted on 4/17/24 at 3:05 pm to Temple of the Dog
The other crazy part looking at that schedule is WSU played a ton of today's D2 and NAIA programs. They also played in a conference tournament not having played any of those teams in the regular season. Also played a 3 game set with CSF after the conference tournament.
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Posted on 4/17/24 at 3:34 pm to RoscoeHarper
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The other crazy part looking at that schedule is WSU played a ton of today's D2 and NAIA programs.
College baseball was a lot different back then. For instance, Hardin-Simmons made the NCAAT in 1982. They are now a DIII school. I imagine some o those schools Wichita St played were D1 back in 1982.
The NCAAT also only fielded 36 teams with 21 auto-bids. The NCAAT regionals were also weird. There were 8 regionals, 6 with 6 teams and 2 with 4 teams.
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They also played in a conference tournament not having played any of those teams in the regular season.
Their conference in 1982 was only 7 teams: Them, Indiana St, Southern Illinois, Bradley, Illinois St, Creighton, and New Mexico St. They, Creighton, and New Mexico St were in the West division and the others in the East Division. They played Creighton 5x and New Mexico St 8 times. I imagine budgets back then prevented traveling from Kansas to Illinois. Doubt they had the money to charter flights and it was too far to go by bus for a weekend series. Anyways, the top 2 teams from each division made the MVC tournament, and then they played a 4 team double elimination tournament.
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