I Don’t Love a Rainy Night: A Goofy NCAA Super Regional Delay & Suspension
It was wet zany night with a hair of softball and plenty of lightning & rain. And it could have been avoided.
So let’s get elephant in the room out there at the top: This all could have easily been avoided. Honestly, I sat down to enjoy my healthy pre-game meal with a pretty good idea I was going to enjoy those two Fairbury’s way more and longer than any softball that would be played Thursday night. The forecasts pretty much called for the weather we received, and anyone bothering to look at the radar knew no one needed to warm up too hard.
And at 8:23pm with one down in the bottom of the first, the first lightning was spotted ahead of the impending downpour, the first 30-minute clock was started, and the game was suspended – and remains so until approximately 4pm today. And the downpour did come. 🌽🥎⛈️ Pretty constant lightning now.
Purple Rain playing. pic. twitter.
com/sp6MB81SRk — Corn Nation (@CornNation) May 22, 2026 Rain it did, pretty much until close to midnight although just mostly light rain proceeded the initial drenching. Around 9:20 or so, they decided to set a 10:10 resumption time. About a half hour or so before, the teams retook the field.