MUSINGS FROM THE DISCH
The Big 12 regular season is over. Never again will the Horns have to travel to Manhattan, Waco, Lubbock, Lawrence, or any other Big 12 locale.
Now, we move on to a week of anticipation and craziness as conference tournaments kick off. Over the next week, 30 conferences will kick off and finish, ensuring the winners of those conferences make it into the NCAA Tournament. A week of non-stop baseball at all hours of the night and the crazy formats make for some electric baseball. It it the best time of the year as we enter the NCAA Tourney.
For the Horns, they finally get over the line, getting their first Big 12 series sweep of the season to wrap things up, ending with an impressive 9 conference series wins out of the 10 series played. The Horns will not host a Regional due to RPI and Q4 losses, but color me impressed that this team with its flaws was able to get 3rd in conference and win 9 out of 10 series. Up next, the Horns will enter the Big 12 tournament on a win streak and have the opportunity to officially stick the knife in the boys from Lubbock chances of making the NCAA Tournament.
I will have a full preview of the Big 12 Conference Tournament and the matchup against Texas Tech later today.
The Longhorn Network is finally finished - despite your feelings one way or the other, watch the tribute to LHN, it is good stuff.
USELESS STAT(S) OF THE DAY
BIG 12 RECAP
BIG 12 STANDINGS:
BIG 12 RPI
TOP 25 RANKINGS
Horns move up one spot to #24 in the latest D1Baseball.com rankings.
NCAA TOURNAMENT PROJECTIONS:
Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, and West Virginia are locks to make the tournament.
TCU, Kansas State, UCF, and Cincinnati are all on the bubble. Not all four of them will make it in, so the Big 12 tourney will be big for each of those teams.
TEXAS NIL UPDATE
For those that complain about the Horns activity in recruiting the top high prep players and more importantly, kids in the transfer portal, consider donating to the Texas One Fund. There are some outstanding candidates to join the program as Texas enters the SEC and donations are needed. TEXAS ONE FUND
Big 12 Awards
Player of the Year: Max Belyeu, Texas
Pitcher of the Year: Payton Tolle, TCU
Freshman of the Year: Dominic Voegele, Kansas
Newcomer of the Year: Payton Tolle, TCU
Coach of the Year: Skip Johnson, Oklahoma
All-Big 12 First Team
C: Jake English, Kansas
IF: Brady Day, Kansas State
IF: Michael Snyder, Oklahoma
IF: Jalin Flores, Texas
IF: Jared Thomas, Texas
IF: JJ Wetherholt, West Virginia
OF: Carson Benge, Oklahoma State
OF: Zach Ehrhard, Oklahoma State
OF: Max Belyeu, Texas
DH: Easton Carmichael, Oklahoma
UT: Josh Kross, Cincinnati
SP: Braden Davis, Oklahoma
SP: Brian Holiday, Oklahoma State
SP: Payton Tolle, TCU*
SP: Derek Clark, West Virginia
RP: Ben Abeldt, TCU
RP: Gage Boehm, Texas
*- unanimous selection
All-Big 12 Second Team
C: Kevin Bazzell, Texas Tech
IF: Kodey Shojinaga, Kansas
IF: Kaelen Culpepper, Kansas State
IF: Colin Brueggemann, Oklahoma State
IF: Peyton Powell, Texas
IF: Reed Chumley, West Virginia
OF: Cary Arbolida, Houston
OF: Bryce Madron, Oklahoma
OF: Nolan Schubart, Oklahoma State
DH: Wesley Jordan, Baylor
UT: Christian Mitchelle, Cincinnati
UT: Justin Murray, Houston
SP: Dom Stagliano, UCF
SP: Reese Dutton, Kansas
SP: Dominic Voegele, Kansas
SP: Kyson Witherspoon, Oklahoma
SP: Sam Garcia, Oklahoma State
RP: Tyson Neighbors, Kansas State
RP: Robert Cranz, Oklahoma State
Ties resulted in five starting pitchers and two utility players on the second team
Honorable Mention
Baylor: Ethan Calder, Cole Posey
BYU: Stone Cushing, Mason Olson, Collin Reuter
UCF: Dominic Castellano, Chase Centala, Kyle Kramer, Danny Neri, Matt Prevesk
Cincinnati: Lauden Brooks, Kerrington Cross, Josh Hegemann, Tommy O'Connor, Nathan Taylor
Houston: Cade Citelli, Harold Coll
Kansas: Michael Brooks, Hunter Cranton, Ben Hartl, John Nett
Kansas State: Owen Boerema, Nick English, Brendan Jones, Raphael Pelletier, Jackson Wentworth
Oklahoma: Cater Campbell, Anthony Mackenzie, Scott Mudler, Jackson Nicklaus, John Spikerman, Jaxon Willits
Oklahoma State: Aidan Meola, Tommy Molsky
TCU: Kurtis Byrne, Zachary Cawyer, Logan Maxwell, Sam Myers
Texas: Rylan Galvan, Will Gasparino, Max Grubbs, Jared Thomas (UT), Ace Whitehead
Texas Tech: Damian Bravo, Gavin Kash, Cade McGee, T.J. Pompey, Kyle Robinson, Drew Woodcox
West Virginia: Aidan Major, Sam White (OF/UT), Kyle West
All-Freshman Team
Kuhio Aloy, BYU
Nathan Taylor, Cincinnati
Ace Reese, Houston
Dominic Voegele, Kansas
Blake Dean, Kansas State
Jaxon Willits, Oklahoma
Chase Brunson, TCU
Sam Myers, TCU
Will Gasparino, Texas
Mac Heuer, Texas Tech
Parker Hutyra, Texas Tech
T.J. Pompey, Texas Tech
The Big 12 regular season is over. Never again will the Horns have to travel to Manhattan, Waco, Lubbock, Lawrence, or any other Big 12 locale.
Now, we move on to a week of anticipation and craziness as conference tournaments kick off. Over the next week, 30 conferences will kick off and finish, ensuring the winners of those conferences make it into the NCAA Tournament. A week of non-stop baseball at all hours of the night and the crazy formats make for some electric baseball. It it the best time of the year as we enter the NCAA Tourney.
For the Horns, they finally get over the line, getting their first Big 12 series sweep of the season to wrap things up, ending with an impressive 9 conference series wins out of the 10 series played. The Horns will not host a Regional due to RPI and Q4 losses, but color me impressed that this team with its flaws was able to get 3rd in conference and win 9 out of 10 series. Up next, the Horns will enter the Big 12 tournament on a win streak and have the opportunity to officially stick the knife in the boys from Lubbock chances of making the NCAA Tournament.
I will have a full preview of the Big 12 Conference Tournament and the matchup against Texas Tech later today.
The Longhorn Network is finally finished - despite your feelings one way or the other, watch the tribute to LHN, it is good stuff.
USELESS STAT(S) OF THE DAY
- Batting - Horns rank 4th in the Big 12
- Pitching - Horns rank 5th in the Big 12
- Fielding - Horns rank 6th in the Big 12
- Hitting Average: Jared Thomas (3rd) and Jalin Flores (9th)
- Slugging%: Max Belyeu (3rd), Jalin Flores (4th), and Jared Thomas (10th)
- OPS: Max Belyeu (3rd), Jared Thomas (6th), and Jalin Flores (9th)
- Hits: Jared Thomas (1st), Jalin Flores (3rd), and Peyton Powell (7th)
- RBIs: Jalin Flores (10th)
- Doubles: Jalin Flores (3rd)
- Triples: Jared Thomas (4th)
- Home Runs: Jalin Flores (4th), Max Belyeu (5th), and Jared Thomas (9th)
- Stolen Bases: Jared Thomas (4th)
- ERA: Max Grubbs (7th)
- Saves: Gage Boehm (3rd)
- Hits Allowed: Ace Whitehead (3rd)
- Runs Allowed: Ace Whitehead (3rd) and Max Grubbs (10th)
- Walks Allowed: Max Grubbs (2nd) and Ace Whitehead (9th)
- Wild Pitches: Lebarron Johnson Jr (1st)
BIG 12 RECAP
- Baylor (22-31, 10-20 Big 12):Bears lost the series to UCF, winning the second game to avoid being swept
- Next Up: Bears season is over and they clean out their lockers
- BYU (21-31, 7-23 Big 12):Cougars lost the series to Kansas State but avoided being swept by winning the series finale
- Next Up: Cougars season is over and they clean out their lockers
- Cincinnati (31-23, 17-13 Big 12): Bearcats lost the series to Oklahoma, winning the series finale to avoid being swept
- Next Up: Bearcats take on #8 seed UCF at 4pm in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament
- Houston (25-28, 7-21 Big 12):Cougars lost the Saturday DH to Oklahoma State in a weather impacted weekend
- Next Up: Cougars season is over and they clean out their lockers
- Kansas (29-21, 15-15 Big 12):Jayhawks went to Austin and got swept, losing the first two in walk-off fashion
- Next Up: Jayhawks take on #6 seed Kansas State at 9am on Tuesday in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament
- Kansas State (31-22, 15-15 Big 12):Wildcats won the series against BYU, but missed the sweep by losing the series finale
- Next Up: Wildcats take on #7 seed Kansas at 9am on Tuesday in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament
- Oklahoma (34-18, 23-7 Big 12):Sooners won the series against Cincinnati, losing the Saturday series finale
- Next Up: Sooners gets an extra day of rest and will play on Wednesday at 12:30pm
- Oklahoma State (36-16, 19-9 Big 12):Cowboys won the DH against Houston after having a second weather shortened weekend
- Next Up: Cowboys get an extra day of rest and will play on Wednesday at 730pm
- TCU (31-19, 14-16 Big 12):Frogs lost the series to West Virginia, losing the series finale on Saturday
- Next Up: Frogs take on #4 seed West Virginia at 12:30pm on Tuesday in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament
- Texas (35-20, 20-10 Big 12):Horns swept the Jayhawks of Kansas, earning their first conference sweep and winning their 9th conference series.
- Next Up: Horns take on #10 seed Texas Tech at 7:30pm in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament
- Texas Tech (31-24, 12-17 Big 12):Red Raiders had a comically bad weekend against Arizona State, losing both games after having the lead. They did beat UNLV
- Next Up: Red Raiders take on #3 seed Texas on Tuesday at 7:30pm in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament
- UCF (33-18, 14-15 Big 12):Knights won the series against Baylor, losing the middle game to miss the sweep
- Next Up: Knights takes on #5 Cincinnati on Tuesday at 4pm in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament
- West Virginia (33-20, 19-11 Big 12):Mountaineers won the series against TCU, winning the Saturday series finale
- Next Up: Mountaineers take on #9 seed TCU on Tuesday at 12:30pm in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament
BIG 12 STANDINGS:
- Oklahoma (23-7)
- Oklahoma State (19-9)
- Texas (20-10)
- West Virginia (19-11)
- Cincinnati (17-13)
- Kansas State (15-15)
- Kansas (15-15)
- UCF (14-15)
- TCU (14-16)
- Texas Tech (12-17)
- Baylor (10-20)
- Houston (7-21)
- BYU (7-23)
BIG 12 RPI
- Oklahoma - 15
- Oklahoma State - 17
- West Virginia - 33
- Texas - 39
- TCU - 40
- Kansas State - 41
- UCF - 42
- Cincinnati - 55
- Texas Tech - 58
- Kansas - 73
- Houston - 108
- BYU - 125
- Baylor - 135
TOP 25 RANKINGS
Horns move up one spot to #24 in the latest D1Baseball.com rankings.
NCAA TOURNAMENT PROJECTIONS:
Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, and West Virginia are locks to make the tournament.
TCU, Kansas State, UCF, and Cincinnati are all on the bubble. Not all four of them will make it in, so the Big 12 tourney will be big for each of those teams.
- Oklahoma - Top 16 host is a lock, in contention for a Top 8 seed
- Oklahoma State - possible Top 16 host, but they will need to make a run in the Big 12 tourney
- Texas - 2 seed locked up
- Kansas State - 3 seed is locked up
- Kansas - will not make the tourney, short of winning the Big 12 tourney
- Texas Tech - will not make the tourney, short of winning the Big 12 tourney
- Cincinnati - is on the bubble, they need to outplay TCU and UCF
- TCU - is on the bubble, they need to outplay Cincinnati and UCF
- West Virginia - 3 seed
- UCF - is on the bubble, they need to outplay Cincinnati and TCU
- Baylor - cleaning out their lockers
- Houston - cleaning out their lockers
- BYU - cleaning out their lockers
TEXAS NIL UPDATE
For those that complain about the Horns activity in recruiting the top high prep players and more importantly, kids in the transfer portal, consider donating to the Texas One Fund. There are some outstanding candidates to join the program as Texas enters the SEC and donations are needed. TEXAS ONE FUND
Big 12 Awards
Player of the Year: Max Belyeu, Texas
Pitcher of the Year: Payton Tolle, TCU
Freshman of the Year: Dominic Voegele, Kansas
Newcomer of the Year: Payton Tolle, TCU
Coach of the Year: Skip Johnson, Oklahoma
All-Big 12 First Team
C: Jake English, Kansas
IF: Brady Day, Kansas State
IF: Michael Snyder, Oklahoma
IF: Jalin Flores, Texas
IF: Jared Thomas, Texas
IF: JJ Wetherholt, West Virginia
OF: Carson Benge, Oklahoma State
OF: Zach Ehrhard, Oklahoma State
OF: Max Belyeu, Texas
DH: Easton Carmichael, Oklahoma
UT: Josh Kross, Cincinnati
SP: Braden Davis, Oklahoma
SP: Brian Holiday, Oklahoma State
SP: Payton Tolle, TCU*
SP: Derek Clark, West Virginia
RP: Ben Abeldt, TCU
RP: Gage Boehm, Texas
*- unanimous selection
All-Big 12 Second Team
C: Kevin Bazzell, Texas Tech
IF: Kodey Shojinaga, Kansas
IF: Kaelen Culpepper, Kansas State
IF: Colin Brueggemann, Oklahoma State
IF: Peyton Powell, Texas
IF: Reed Chumley, West Virginia
OF: Cary Arbolida, Houston
OF: Bryce Madron, Oklahoma
OF: Nolan Schubart, Oklahoma State
DH: Wesley Jordan, Baylor
UT: Christian Mitchelle, Cincinnati
UT: Justin Murray, Houston
SP: Dom Stagliano, UCF
SP: Reese Dutton, Kansas
SP: Dominic Voegele, Kansas
SP: Kyson Witherspoon, Oklahoma
SP: Sam Garcia, Oklahoma State
RP: Tyson Neighbors, Kansas State
RP: Robert Cranz, Oklahoma State
Ties resulted in five starting pitchers and two utility players on the second team
Honorable Mention
Baylor: Ethan Calder, Cole Posey
BYU: Stone Cushing, Mason Olson, Collin Reuter
UCF: Dominic Castellano, Chase Centala, Kyle Kramer, Danny Neri, Matt Prevesk
Cincinnati: Lauden Brooks, Kerrington Cross, Josh Hegemann, Tommy O'Connor, Nathan Taylor
Houston: Cade Citelli, Harold Coll
Kansas: Michael Brooks, Hunter Cranton, Ben Hartl, John Nett
Kansas State: Owen Boerema, Nick English, Brendan Jones, Raphael Pelletier, Jackson Wentworth
Oklahoma: Cater Campbell, Anthony Mackenzie, Scott Mudler, Jackson Nicklaus, John Spikerman, Jaxon Willits
Oklahoma State: Aidan Meola, Tommy Molsky
TCU: Kurtis Byrne, Zachary Cawyer, Logan Maxwell, Sam Myers
Texas: Rylan Galvan, Will Gasparino, Max Grubbs, Jared Thomas (UT), Ace Whitehead
Texas Tech: Damian Bravo, Gavin Kash, Cade McGee, T.J. Pompey, Kyle Robinson, Drew Woodcox
West Virginia: Aidan Major, Sam White (OF/UT), Kyle West
All-Freshman Team
Kuhio Aloy, BYU
Nathan Taylor, Cincinnati
Ace Reese, Houston
Dominic Voegele, Kansas
Blake Dean, Kansas State
Jaxon Willits, Oklahoma
Chase Brunson, TCU
Sam Myers, TCU
Will Gasparino, Texas
Mac Heuer, Texas Tech
Parker Hutyra, Texas Tech
T.J. Pompey, Texas Tech
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