UT Claims Second Straight Big 12 Baseball Regular Season Title

[El Supremo]

by Big12Sports.com

Texas has clinched its sixth Big 12 baseball regular season championship with a 17-2 victory at No. 20 Kansas State on Saturday.

UT has posted a 20-3 record (.870) with four league contests remaining. The Longhorns, who have earned four of the last five regular season crowns, also claimed the Big 12 title in 2002, '04, '06-'07, and '09.

For the second straight week UT is ranked No. 1 in the nation. The Longhorns top the Collegiate Baseball, NCBWA and USA Today/ESPN Coaches' polls, while
Texas received a No. 2 ranking by Baseball America. UT was also the preseason No. 1 in all four polls heading into the 2010 campaign.

On May 2, Texas set the Big 12 record for consecutive conference wins (17), after completing a sweep of Baylor.

As the regular season champion, UT will be the top seed at the 2010 Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship scheduled for May 26-30 at AT&T Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City. The remaining seeds will be announced on Sunday, May 23.

[Upton]

1. Wonderful...means little

college baseball is all about the CWS. Or are you just going to proclaim UT national champions...like you did with Boise?

[El Supremo]

2. Can you say "number one seed in the college world series?"

The Horns have a leg up on that. And unlike football, there is a tournament for the national champion. So Boise State deserved the championship just as much as Alabama.

Oh, I see that Washington State is number 24. That won't get them to Omaha. http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/baseball/news?slug=kr-top25rankings051710

[Condem]

3. The Horns will pick up the level of play in the Big Ten, El.

I look forward to seeing our future conference mates in late June in Omaha.

[madinmaryland]

4. Are you huffing again, con?? Texas is not going to the Big Ten.

[Condem]

5. Back in play according to a number of sources today, mad.

This "population drain" can mean two things. The obvious or the not so obvious.

[El Supremo]

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