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Tournament Format
The top 8 teams are invited to Oklahoma City to battle in a double elimination tournament. The seeding for this year is as follows:
- Texas Tech
- TCU
- Oklahoma
- West Virginia
- Baylor
- Texas
- Kansas
- Oklahoma State
Tech, OSU, West Virgina, and Baylor will be on one side of the bracket and the other teams will be on the other side. Baylor and West Virginia start things off with a 9:00 first pitch followed by Tech-OSU at 12:30 pm. On the other side of the bracket, TCU will take on Kansas at 4:00 pm and Oklahoma-Texas will be at 7:30 pm. After the games today, tomorrow’s early games will involve the losing team of each pair of games in the elimination loser’s bracket. The later afternoon and evening games will be the teams that win today. If you get confused, head here to look at what should be an updated bracket. We’ll keep you updated below as games finish and the schedule is updated. All games will be broadcast on FCS, FSSW+, or a local FSN affiliate, and can be seen online on Fox Sports Go.
If you’re on twitter, follow Aaron Fitt from D1 Baseball, as he’ll be in Bricktown for the tournament.
Greeting from Bricktown, where @BaylorBaseball & @WVUBaseball are underway in the @Big12Conference tournament opener on a beautiful morning. pic.twitter.com/7urjImm09v
— Aaron Fitt (@aaronfitt) May 24, 2017
Wednesday May 24th
Game 1: #4 WV 11 vs #5 Baylor 1
Game 2: #1 TTU 0 vs #8 OSU 3
Game 3: #2 TCU 3 vs #7 KU 7
Game 4: #3 OU 4 vs #6 UT 8
Thursday May 25th
Game 5: #5 Baylor 1 vs #1 TTU 4 (Baylor eliminated)
Game 6: #2 TCU 9 vs #3 OU 4 (OU eliminated)
Game 7: #4 West Virginia vs #8 OSU - 4:00 pm
Game 8: #7 KU vs #6 UT - 7:30 pm
Friday May 26th
Game 9: G7 Loser vs #1 TTU - 3:15 pm
Game 10: G8 Loser vs #2 TCU - 7:30 pm
Saturday May 27th
Game 11: G7 Winner vs G9 Winner - 9:00am
Game 12: G8 Winner vs G10 Winner - 12:30 pm
Game 13: G11 Winner vs G11 Loser - 4:30 pm (only necessary if G9 Winner wins G11)
Game 14: G12 Winner vs G12 Loser - 7:00 pm (only necessary if G10 Winner wins G12, and if G13 is not necessary, ths game will be at 4:30 pm)
Sunday May 28th
Championship Game - 1:00 pm
The tournament will most likely have no bearing on Tech or TCU’s seeding in the postseason tournament. For Tech, Davis Martin is returning today after being out with tendinitis since the Wichita State series. He should get around 50-60 pitches today in real game action.