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Key takeaways
- There are zero returning teams from last year's Men's College World Series participating in the edition that will begin Friday afternoon in Omaha, Nebraska.
- Because that happened last year, too, to Vanderbilt and Texas.
- Yes, the SEC has five of this year's eight MCWS spots locked up, but this isn't your usual lineup of "It Just Means More" traditional powerhouses.
Why this matters: a sports story that could shift standings, legacies, or fan conversations.
So, here's an idea. Leave it the hell alone.
There are zero returning teams from last year's Men's College World Series participating in the edition that will begin Friday afternoon in Omaha, Nebraska. That's OK. Heck, that happened last year, too. The first time since 1957. So, 23 different teams on college baseball's biggest stage over the span of three years -- North Carolina being the only outlier by making it in 2024 and 2026. That's OK, too.
Speaking of hardball history repeating itself, while we were all stunned off our sofas when the top two national seeds, No. 1 UCLA and No. 2 Georgia Tech, were bounced from the first round of this year's tourney, we shouldn't have been. Because that happened last year, too, to Vanderbilt and Texas. And yeah, that's A-OK as well.