For all the hype, for all the buzz around this year’s UNC baseball team, it ended in a painfully familiar way—short of Omaha.
This team had the talent. Legit arms, reliable bats, and a coaching staff that knew how to win in the regular season. But once again, the postseason exposed what’s starting to feel like a pattern: inconsistency when it matters most.
They didn’t collapse. There wasn’t a meltdown. But in the moments that demanded execution—runners in scoring position, late-game bullpen decisions, clutch hitting—they just didn’t deliver. A few timely hits away from flipping the script, but that’s the margin in postseason baseball. It’s cruel. As one of the longest droughts of making it to Omaha without winning it all, UNC will let the streak continue.
This wasn’t a wasted season. There was a lot to like and even more to build on. But for a program with national championship aspirations, finishing just short doesn’t feel good enough. It’s time UNC finds a way to turn regular-season dominance into postseason results. Unfortunately, with many of our star players seemingly going to the draft or graduating, it is tough to see a better chance than this year.