The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
University of Texas
Texas Tech
No. 1/1 Softball preview: 2024 Phillips 66 Big 12 Softball Championships
05.08.2024 | Softball
In final Big 12 postseason conference tournament, Texas looks to depart league with fifth postseason conference championship
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – Looking for its first regular season and postseason tournament sweep of Big 12 Conference championships since the 2003 season, The University of Texas softball program will open its stay in the 2024 Phillips 66 Big 12 Softball Championship on Thursday, May 9 with a 5 p.m. CT matchup against Texas Tech.
TELEVISION: Pete Sousa (play by play) and Natasha Watley (analyst) will serve as the talent for the ESPN+ broadcasts on Thursday and Friday. Eric Frede (play by play) and Madison Shipman (analyst) will call the tournament's championship game on ESPN2 on Saturday.
RADIO: Andrew Haynes can be heard with the series radio call at https://texas.leanplayer.com/.
LEADING OFF
- Following last weekend's offensive outburst in Lubbock, Texas, the Texas Longhorn offense will enter the Big 12's postseason conference tournament with 514 hits, three shy of tying (2013, 2014) for the fourth most by a team in the program's single-season history.
- The 2022 squad set the record with 560 hits throughout its season.
- Texas will enter the 2024 Phillips 66 Big 12 Softball Championship having won its last five consecutive games via the eight-run mercy rule, which is the longest such streak for the Longhorns since opening the 2020 seasons with six consecutive such victories.
- The Longhorns will enter the league's postseason tournament as the top-seeded team for the first time since the 2010 season.
- Texas holds a 9-2 all-time record as the number one seed and has won two postseason conference championships (2002 and 2003) as the top-seeded team.
- Thursday will mark the fourth consecutive postseason Big 12 tournament that Texas has played Texas Tech.
- Dating back to the 2017 campaign, the Longhorns and Red Raiders have met in the league's postseason tournament on five separate occasions with Thursday's matchup set to be the sixth time.
- Since the two team's first-ever meeting in the conference's postseason tournament on May 2, 1998, Texas is 7-2 all time against Texas Tech in the Big 12's postseason tournament with wins in the last two matchups.
- Additionally, Thursday's game will mark the fourth consecutive season that Texas and Texas Tech have played each other four different times throughout the same season.
- Furthermore, when the two programs take the field on Thursday, it'll mark the first time in Texas' softball history that the Longhorns will have played the same opponent in four consecutive games.
- Additionally, Thursday's game will mark the fourth consecutive season that Texas and Texas Tech have played each other four different times throughout the same season.
- Since the two team's first-ever meeting in the conference's postseason tournament on May 2, 1998, Texas is 7-2 all time against Texas Tech in the Big 12's postseason tournament with wins in the last two matchups.
- Dating back to the 2017 campaign, the Longhorns and Red Raiders have met in the league's postseason tournament on five separate occasions with Thursday's matchup set to be the sixth time.
- After winning the 2024 Big 12 Conference regular season championship, the Texas Longhorns will be looking for its pair of first regular season and postseason conference tournament championships in the same season since 2003.
- The 2003 edition of the Longhorns finished the regular season with a 15-2 conference record before winning four consecutive postseason conference tournament games by a combined score of 11-1.
- UT also opened that tournament with a 7-1 win over Texas Tech.
- The 2003 edition of the Longhorns finished the regular season with a 15-2 conference record before winning four consecutive postseason conference tournament games by a combined score of 11-1.
FOLLOW US
- For the latest information on the team, follow @TexasSoftball on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. General athletic news can also be found at @TexasLonghorns on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
