It’s official: NCAA selects WVU as regional host for 1st round tournament action | WVU Mountaineers

MORGANTOWN — The scoreboard in Surprise Stadium was telling a sad story to the West Virginia baseball team as they exited the field in Arizona, screaming out to all within sight of it that the Kansas Jayhawks won the Big 12 baseball championship by the one-sided margin of 9-0.

But while the disappointment in losing was evident in their dispositions, the scoreboard was not telling the entire story for the Mountaineers had traveled west with two goals in mind, winning the Big 12 championship for the first time being only one of them.

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