As I've said TIME and TIME again, it happens every year. This is baseball where a solid or horrible pitching outing can make the difference in an individual game. That's why the regionals are double-elimination and why we look at the overall body of work...
Yes - the SWAC schools may lose to sub-Div Is, NAIAs and JUCOs (as they have this year and every year), but if given the right ingredients, those same teams can defeat Rice, LSU, Okie State, etc. The baseball guys on this board know this.
Either way, I love how you guys can't even celebrate the occasional out of conference success without bringing me into the equation. Enjoy your victory. Always nice to see the SWAC fans get excited. What is this? The second win of significance this year to whet your appetite?
Oddly enough, the SWAC is 1-18 against top 50 RPI teams (per warrennolan.com). Okie State is actually 184 in RPI, so this was not even a great win in the scheme of things. The lone top 50 win, you ask? Texas Southern over Southeastern La. And before you hate on the SLC - the conference has 16 wins against the top 50 with 34 losses. If the SWAC reached 16 wins, it would have 288 losses before then. Baseball - the body of work.