They've cherry-picked some of the top pitchers from this state (NJ).
Leiter in '18, Maldonado in '19, last year Rielly (local Sea Girt kid), and a 6'-7" top recruit, Finnigan, on deck.
The SEC was stacked seed-wise going in.
A single game loss on Friday flips the narrative to "somewhat disappointing" for them if their 1,3 and 4 seeds don't make it to the finals.
But, here we are.
Useless interesting info:
As we know, Leiter will be on the mound for start the CWS finals for Vandy.
His dad holds the NJ HS record for strikeouts in a game with 32.
https://www.nj.com/yankees/2016/04/reliving_al_leiter_setting_nj_prep_record_with_32.html