re: Could Miss. State have gone to the CWS with Cannizaro at the helm?

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This. I know almost every SEC team has had at least one team that should have made Omaha on talent alone and didn't and have had a team make it Omaha that was far less likely to get there. We had great teams in 1984, 1989 and 2016 that were regional runners-up or just made the Supers that had, overall, a lot more talent that this team. They just rant into teams that got hot at the right time, like Arizona two years ago.

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Yep. Vandy lost a home regional as the #1 overall seed in 2007. They also were the #2 overall seed in 2013, after a 54-10 record and 26-3 SEC record, and lost in the supers. But then they made, and won, the CWS the following year when they weren't a national seed and had a 17-13 record in the SEC.