Another weekend, another big series for WVU baseball, which is quite quietly No. 26 in the College Baseball Newspaper poll.

The Mountainers travel to Notre Dame for a weekend series against the Irish and will try to once again — and maybe once and for all — answer this question: Are these guys any good?

“I don’t know,” said Baseball America’s John Manuel Wednesday morning. “Their best win is against Tennessee, yet Tennessee is having its worst year in a long time. The Kentucky win is another good one but Kentucky is just above Tennessee at the bottom of the SEC East. Winning three at UConn is probably the best thing for West Virginia because UConn can hit.

“Really, all we have to go on is the best teams they have played and they haven’t beaten them – Coastal Carolina, Minnesota and Illinois – that’s all we really have to go off of and that’s really why we are in a wait-and-see mode with them.”