Inside Kansas baseball's unlikely rise from irrelevance to Big 12 champions

A late turn on the road to the best run of success in Kansas baseball history would not deter Dan Fitzgerald.As for his players, forget about it. They’ve endured enough twists and detours in their collegiate careers to laugh at a May losing streak.The Jayhawks were cruising two weeks ago toward their first regular-season conference championship since 1949. They rose to a ranking of No. 7 nationally before West Virginia pulled a three-game sweep in Lawrence, trimming KU’s seemingly insurmountable four-game lead (with six to play) down to one heading into the final weekend of the season.Advertisement