Fresh off a historic run for the Huskers in March Madness, Rhonda Revelle and the Nebraska softball team look like it's on pace for one of, if not the best, seasons in school history. Despite spending some time as the No. 1 team in the country and winning the Big Ten regular season with just one conference loss, something is missing. The Big Ten apparently believes the Cornhuskers somehow managed to win the conference and post more than 40 wins despite a lack of talent.
What adds fuel to the fire of talk that NU suffered some stunning snubs this season? For the first time in Big Ten history, the conference champion had fewer than two representatives on the All-Big Ten First Team. Jordy Frahm made the list, but that's it. Frahm is obviously quite talented, but it's hard to imagine she was the only addition from the Huskers on a team made up of 19 players.
Jordy Frahm was Nebraska softball’s lone First Team pick despite a title-winning season
Alexis Jensen was named the Freshman of the Year, and she might demonstrate better than anyone else in Nebraska how truly odd the All-Big Ten team voting ended up. Jensen is on the Second Team. Five other freshmen earned First Team honors. How does one win Freshman of the Year while being simultaneously considered worse than 5 other freshmen?
Alexis Jensen gives Nebraska softball even more reason to make the postseason personal
Joining Jensen on the Second Team are Samantha Bland, Hannah Coor, Kacie Hoffmann, and Ava Kuszak. Their stats certainly seemed to indicate they were both among the 19 best players in the Big Ten.
Hoffmann batted .425 with 31 hits, and Coor hit .400 with 30 hits. The batting averages for the Nebraska outfielders were good for the seventh and 13th, and they were ninth and 11th in hits during conference play.
All of this is to say that Nebraska has a chance to prove everyone wrong. It starts Saturday afternoon against Indiana, but win or lose, the real proof comes when regionals, super regionals, and the Women's College World Series roll around.
Rhonda Revelle has a very special group on her hands. It might be a historic group. Perhaps Nebraska can even use the bizarre All-Big Ten snubs as a reason to keep winning and never stop, right up until they get the National Title.
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