I was going to misspell their nickname "Hosers" and fill this article with Canada jokes, but there's only so much Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas a man can stomach...
The Indiana Hoosiers baseball team slugged their way into our hearts in 2013, making it all the way to Omaha. Last year, though they did not replicate their tournament success, they were chosen as one of eight National Seeds (though they lost their regional to some Junior College in Palo Alto).
This year they were lucky to get a bid at all.
What changed? First of all, Tracy Smith, the best baseball coach in IU history, jumped ship when a plum ASU job opened (think Poach Franklin and the state pen Penn State).