Vanderbilt pitchers Jack Leiter and Kumar Rocker have been one of the biggest stories in college baseball this season.
First, a look at how good Leiter and Rocker have been: Leiter rank 1-2 in Division I in strikeouts this season; the last duo to finish top three in strikeouts in the same season was UCLA’s Trevor Bauer and Gerrit Cole in 2010.
They’ve combined to allow two runs in 27 2/3 innings pitched in the NCAA tournament and are slated to pitch Vanderbilt’s first two games in the College World Series.
4, 2006, they became only the second pair of Heisman Trophy winners to play together for the same team when they faced the Longhorns in the Rose Bowl.
They reached the Final Four in all three seasons they were teammates at Duke from 1990 to 1992, winning back-to-back national titles in 1991 and 1992.
Laettner is the all-time leading scorer in the NCAA tournament, won the Wooden Award in 1992 and hit one of college basketball’s most famous shots, the game-winning buzzer-beater against Kentucky in the 1992 Elite Eight.
Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi played two seasons together at UConn, and the Huskies went 39-0 and won a national championship in their final season as teammates in 2001-02.
They also have been teammates on the international level, with Team USA going 32-0 with four gold medals with Bird and Taurasi playing together.
Will Clark and Rafael Palmeiro were teammates for Mississippi State from 1983 to 1985, with Palmeiro a Golden Spikes finalist in 1984 and Clark winning the award given to the top amateur baseball player in the country in 1985.
Palmeiro holds Mississippi State’s all-time home run record while Will Clark holds the school record with a .391 batting average.
Before they were teammates on the Boston Red Sox, Nomar Garciaparra and Jason Varitek starred at Georgia Tech.
Both played in the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League in 1993, when Varitek won the league’s batting title and was named the league’s MVP, and Garciaparra led Orleans to the league title.
While at Stanford, Woods was the individual Pac-10 conference champion in 1996, and the Pac-10 player of the year in both 1995 and 1996.
A three-time All-American , Begay’s career low score of 62 came during the 1994 NCAA championships, finishing one stroke shy of the school record, held by Woods.
Toews and Oshie led North Dakota to consecutive Frozen Four appearances in 2006-07, combining for 182 points across those two seasons.