Senior Max Lancaster and freshman Casey Bussone are right at home in Cambridge

Baseball typically isn't first and foremost on the minds of those who consider attending the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is among the most desirable universities in the entire world, but head coach Andy Barlow is hoping to drop the academics-only stigma that surrounds his program on the New England scene.

"Some of the local kids think that MIT is just a bunch of academic, computer kids and that it might not be the right fit for them," Barlow said.

Really, though, it isn’t hard to notice that MIT is about much, much more than that.