Whether it’s Eugene, Spokane, Nashville, Oxford or Lubbock, or the Hornets Nest in Fayetteville, Nebraska isn’t concerned about where it will be placed in the 64-team field.
“It doesn’t matter at this point, it’s just where they send us,” said Bolt, who was named Big Ten Coach of the Year on Sunday. “We can’t even look beyond whether we are the two or the three seeds, who the one seed is. … Whoever you play this game is always the most important part of a region.
“You look ahead to the next game or the next weekend, you have no chance.”
The Huskers believe they have a chance.
There was no conference tournament that year, so Nebraska and other Big Ten teams hoping for the NCAAs had no feel for postseason baseball this week. However, NU has prepared the back end of the schedule well.
The Huskers played four games against Indiana and three against Michigan and went with a combined 5-2 against the hopefuls of the NCAA tournament. NU has had good results in the past few weeks, battling Michigan’s Steve Hajjar, Cameron Weston and Indiana’s McCade Brown.
The Huskers won on the weekend in front of more than 5,500 and more than 7,000 spectators. And because they didn’t have to compete in a league tournament, the Huskers didn’t have to worry about taxing their pitchers’ arms.
