Interesting statistical correlation. On one hand, you’d think scoring the first run of an eight-team double elimination tournament is completely irrelevant. It’s partly just scheduling quirks. On the other, the law of averages says that team should have won 5-6 titles since 1983.
A bad omen for West Virginia?
No team has scored the first run of Game 1 and gone on to win the MCWS since Texas in 1983.