It’s the most wonderful time of the year in the college baseball calendar. Conference tournaments have wrapped up, the tickets are punched, and sites have been set. All roads lead to the banks of the Missouri River in Omaha, Nebraska. The field of sixty-four is set, and with the regionals starting Friday, May 30th, it is that time when people wildly speculate on who will be in Omaha in three weeks.

The Southwest Conference lasted longer than it had any right to. She died the death that she dealt herself. A buck riding beauty who tried to tame a bronc that she could not break, and tho she tried, she was bucked off several times with the departures over the years of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State in 1920 and 1925. She climbed back in the saddle again and again with TCU, Texas Tech, and Houston, but that bronc was too wild.