The Big 12 looks to end a 10-year drought without a national championship (2005 - Texas).
This is the 14th time one conference has sent three or more teams to the CWS in the same year. Of those occasions, the Big 12 is the only conference to have advanced 100 percent of its bids.
The Big 12 is the only conference to send three or more teams to Omaha in two of the past four years.
The Big 12 is 15-3 in the NCAA postseason (.833). The .750 Super Regional win percentage is tied for the best in league history (in years with multiple Super Regional teams). The .900 (9-1) win percentage in regional play marked the best in conference history.
Big 12 teams outscored their opponents 101-21 in their 15 postseason wins, including 67-15 in 10 regional games and 34-6 in Super Regional contests. Individually in the postseason victories, OSU went 35-6, TCU 31-7 and TTU 35-8.
The Big 12 is the only conference with a different regular season and postseason champion both advancing to Omaha (Texas Tech and TCU). It was only one of two conferences to advance two champions to Super Regional action.
The Big 12 becomes the second conference to win two Super Regionals on the road in the same year (ACC – 2006).
Jim Schlossnagle and Tim Tadlock are just the third coaches in league history to guide their squads to the CWS twice in their first four years coaching in the conference (Dave Van Horn, Nebraska, 2001 & ‘02).
The trio of this year’s CWS head coaches are all in their fourth season in the league with Josh Holliday and Tim Tadlock also in their fourth seasons as head coaches at their respective programs. Over the past four years, the group has a combined .665 win percentage (492-248), .627 conference win percentage (178-106) and have won the past three Big 12 regular season titles (2014 - OSU, 2015 - TCU, 2016 - TTU).
TCU and Texas Tech are two of five teams in the Big 12’s history to make multiple appearances in the CWS as a member of the league, with Texas the only other current member who can make that claim.
TCU and Texas Tech are two of just six programs nationally to have advanced to the College World twice in the past three seasons, joining Virginia, Vanderbilt, Louisville and Miami.
The Big 12 has advanced seven of seven of its 11 postseason teams to Omaha over the last three seasons - 64 percent.
Big 12 teams have faced each other in the CWS in just three games with TCU edging Texas Tech, 3-2, in 2014, and Texas going 2-0 over Baylor in the 2005 series.
Since the format was adopted in 1999, this is the fourth season the Big 12 had three or more teams advance to Super Regional play and second time in the past three years (2014, ‘05, 1999).
In 2014, the Big 12 became just the second conference in NCAA history to host four Super Regionals in the same season.
The Big 12 is the only “Power Five” conference in which a different league team has won the regular season each of the past six seasons (2016 - Texas Tech, 2015 - TCU, 2014 - Oklahoma State, 2013 - K-State, 2012 - Baylor, 2011 - Texas/Texas A&M).
Oklahoma State (11, tied third most) and Texas Tech (10, fifth most) ranked in the top five for most players selected in this year’s MLB Draft.
Oklahoma State and TCU own two of the top three ERAs of the NCAA postseason thus far as the Cowboys rank first with a mark of 1.00, while TCU is third at 1.83. Texas Tech ranks 15th (3.41). Only two others teams in the Omaha field (Florida and Arizona) are in the top 15.
The trio of league teams combined for a 2.01 ERA in Super Regional action, 2.43 mark in regional play and a 2.24 ERA thus far in the postseason.
The Cowboys, who owned the lowest batting average in the league during the regular season, are second in the tournament with a .339 average.
Of the seven conferences with three or more teams in the tournament, the Big 12 had the fewest combined losses in regional action (one; the next fewest was six) and the best combined win percentage at .900 (the next highest was .727).
The Big 12 owns a .744 win percentage in regional play over the past four years, including marks of .750 or higher in three of those seasons.
The Big 12 has produced 37 Super Regional teams including multiple teams in 14 of the 18 seasons of the format.
Three of the last four CWS champions arrived in Omaha with the fewest wins in the remaining field. Oklahoma State has the fewest wins of the eight-team field entering the event this season.
The Cowboys are the first team to reach the CWS without trailing in the Regionals or Super Regionals since Georgia Tech in 2002.
This is the 14th time one conference has sent three or more teams to the CWS in the same year. Of those occasions, the Big 12 is the only conference to have advanced 100 percent of its bids.
The Big 12 is the only conference to send three or more teams to Omaha in two of the past four years.
The Big 12 is 15-3 in the NCAA postseason (.833). The .750 Super Regional win percentage is tied for the best in league history (in years with multiple Super Regional teams). The .900 (9-1) win percentage in regional play marked the best in conference history.
Big 12 teams outscored their opponents 101-21 in their 15 postseason wins, including 67-15 in 10 regional games and 34-6 in Super Regional contests. Individually in the postseason victories, OSU went 35-6, TCU 31-7 and TTU 35-8.
The Big 12 is the only conference with a different regular season and postseason champion both advancing to Omaha (Texas Tech and TCU). It was only one of two conferences to advance two champions to Super Regional action.
The Big 12 becomes the second conference to win two Super Regionals on the road in the same year (ACC – 2006).
Jim Schlossnagle and Tim Tadlock are just the third coaches in league history to guide their squads to the CWS twice in their first four years coaching in the conference (Dave Van Horn, Nebraska, 2001 & ‘02).
The trio of this year’s CWS head coaches are all in their fourth season in the league with Josh Holliday and Tim Tadlock also in their fourth seasons as head coaches at their respective programs. Over the past four years, the group has a combined .665 win percentage (492-248), .627 conference win percentage (178-106) and have won the past three Big 12 regular season titles (2014 - OSU, 2015 - TCU, 2016 - TTU).
TCU and Texas Tech are two of five teams in the Big 12’s history to make multiple appearances in the CWS as a member of the league, with Texas the only other current member who can make that claim.
TCU and Texas Tech are two of just six programs nationally to have advanced to the College World twice in the past three seasons, joining Virginia, Vanderbilt, Louisville and Miami.
The Big 12 has advanced seven of seven of its 11 postseason teams to Omaha over the last three seasons - 64 percent.
Big 12 teams have faced each other in the CWS in just three games with TCU edging Texas Tech, 3-2, in 2014, and Texas going 2-0 over Baylor in the 2005 series.
Since the format was adopted in 1999, this is the fourth season the Big 12 had three or more teams advance to Super Regional play and second time in the past three years (2014, ‘05, 1999).
In 2014, the Big 12 became just the second conference in NCAA history to host four Super Regionals in the same season.
The Big 12 is the only “Power Five” conference in which a different league team has won the regular season each of the past six seasons (2016 - Texas Tech, 2015 - TCU, 2014 - Oklahoma State, 2013 - K-State, 2012 - Baylor, 2011 - Texas/Texas A&M).
Oklahoma State (11, tied third most) and Texas Tech (10, fifth most) ranked in the top five for most players selected in this year’s MLB Draft.
Oklahoma State and TCU own two of the top three ERAs of the NCAA postseason thus far as the Cowboys rank first with a mark of 1.00, while TCU is third at 1.83. Texas Tech ranks 15th (3.41). Only two others teams in the Omaha field (Florida and Arizona) are in the top 15.
The trio of league teams combined for a 2.01 ERA in Super Regional action, 2.43 mark in regional play and a 2.24 ERA thus far in the postseason.
The Cowboys, who owned the lowest batting average in the league during the regular season, are second in the tournament with a .339 average.
Of the seven conferences with three or more teams in the tournament, the Big 12 had the fewest combined losses in regional action (one; the next fewest was six) and the best combined win percentage at .900 (the next highest was .727).
The Big 12 owns a .744 win percentage in regional play over the past four years, including marks of .750 or higher in three of those seasons.
The Big 12 has produced 37 Super Regional teams including multiple teams in 14 of the 18 seasons of the format.
Three of the last four CWS champions arrived in Omaha with the fewest wins in the remaining field. Oklahoma State has the fewest wins of the eight-team field entering the event this season.
The Cowboys are the first team to reach the CWS without trailing in the Regionals or Super Regionals since Georgia Tech in 2002.
