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A Longshot: An Iowa Team in Omaha’s Field of Dreams

KIOS | By Greg Echlin

Published June 21, 2017 at 10:48 AM CDT

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Virginia coach Brian O'Connor, a native of Council Bluffs (St. Albert HS), directed the Cavs to the CWS title in 2015. He played college ball at Creighton when the Bluejays made it to the CWS in 1991.

Photo credit: Dennis Hubbard

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Ed Servais (far left) completed his 14th season as the Creighton Bluejays head coach. Previously he was an assistant at Iowa St. which no longer fields a baseball team.

Photo credit: Steve Branscombe

Omaha fans adopt a team in the College World Series because their regional teams hardly ever get that far.

Only three times in the last 45 years has a team from either Nebraska or Iowa reached the championship field. In Nebraska, three Division I teams aspire to make it. But in Iowa it’s down to one as Greg Echlin reports for Omaha Public Radio.