OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – It took 60 years, but the Atlantic Coast Conference finally won a baseball national title again.
Virginia completed its improbable run to the championship with a 4-2 victory over defending champ Vanderbilt on Wednesday night, making it the first ACC team since Wake Forest in 1955 to reach the top of college baseball.
It had been a curious drought for the ACC. Only the Pac-12 and Southeastern Conference have sent more teams to the College World Series.
“It’s amazing the text messages I received over the last couple of days from other coaches in our league rooting us on,” Virginia coach Brian O’Connor said. “We’ve never discussed in our program about one league against another or us trying as a league to get over this hump and winning a national championship.
“There are great programs in our league. There are many, many more that have been here, been in this position and could have very easily done what we did, and there will be many more after us.”