A Team That Hadn't Won an NCAA Tournament Game in Its Entire History Showed Up at 1:30 AM and Blew Up the Tallahassee Regional.
Northern Illinois had never won an NCAA Tournament game. Not once. Not ever. Friday night they beat last year's national runner-up Coastal Carolina 12-10 with an eight-run fourth inning that ended after 1:30 in the morning. Now both top seeds in the Tallahassee Regional are in the losers bracket fighting for survival. College baseball is completely unhinged right now.
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