The Horned Frogs take on regional 3-seed Arizona at 8 p.m. TCU (37-22) earned the Conference’s automatic bid after winning the Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship and takes its six-game win streak to Fayetteville (Ark.). This marks the 20 th time in 26 seasons that the Big 12 has at least five teams participating in regionals. Regional play begins Friday, June 2 in a double-elimination format. 11 Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, TCU, Texas, Texas Tech and West Virginia were selected to the field of 64. It is the highest number of selections for the Conference since 2017 and the 66.7% of schools selected are the second-most among all conferences. Michella's work has appeared on, FOX Sports South, Atlanta Blaze MLL and SB Nation.Six Big 12 programs were selected to compete in the 2023 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship. She is a graduate of the University of Georgia where she played lacrosse and earned a degree in Journalism and a Sport Media Certificate. She also covers softball and baseball for NCAA Digital. Texas Michella Chester has been the volleyball beat reporter since 2019. ![]() For LSU, Crews has been their best player in the SEC and that is loud enough for Rogers. But ultimately went with Crews who has 30 walks to 27 strikeouts, whereas Grice has 49 strikeouts. ![]() "For a big, strong, 6-foot-6 guy with long leavers, he has a surprising feel for hitting, he is not that easy to get out." Fitt thinks his bat is special and compared the attention he is getting as a freshman to Seth Beer in 2016.Īt first thought, Rogers wanted to pick Grice as well. He just hit four home run over the weekend and has 12 on the season. Who is freshman of the year?Īs of late, he has put on a show. He has been through an entire month of June, and he has already won the CWS MVP award. FItt's argument is that Rocker has been steady all year long, he now has the lower ERA, fewer walks, and ultimately he has been there before. Leiter has 106 strikeouts this season, so far. He has dominated the SEC, aside from Florida, and has been a calming presence for Vanderbilt. "He is the best player I have seen this year in college baseball," Rogers said. MORE: The scariest lineups in college baseball 3. Tennessee is another team that was ranked in their preseason top 25 rankings, but now the Volunteers are sitting at No. In his words, "no one saw Oregon having the season they are having." Same thing with Stanford, who had a rough 2020 shortened season but then a great 2021 turnaround. At Pittsburgh, the Panthers have a great weekend rotation and have been successful this season, so the biggest surprise this year for Rogers is who is on top of the ACC.įor FItt, he said the Pac-12 has been very interesting. The Fighting Irish have been winning series after series despite injuries on the mound. Rogers sure wishes that they predicted Notre Dame and Pitt to be at the top of the ACC this season. There were a lot of teams that were surprising this season - in a good way ![]() Rogers thinks it will be difficult for the committee to differentiate between the three. Then there is Conference USA - teams like Charlotte, Louisiana Tech and Southern Miss that could be in contention for a host site. UCLA is another team in question ahead of selections that had really high expectations headed into the season but are just getting into the swing of things now. Louisville and Florida State are both teams that don't have great RPI, but according to Rogers, they would pass the "eye" test. Fitt noted there is just less use for the RPI this year when there is less crossover between conferences. How will they handle Big Ten teams that didn't play any out-of-conference matchups? The ACC played 36 games in-conference instead of the usual 30. I asked Kendall and Aaron what the biggest storylines are headed into selections, and they both said the biggest question is how the committee is going to evaluate this unusual season due to COVID-19. How will the committee handle this strange season? Here are some of what they are expecting ahead of the selection show, which is set for Monday, May 31. ![]() You can watch the complete interview above. Now, we are nearing the end of the season and I wanted to talk to them again to get their take on the biggest questions to be answered in the last days of the 2021 regular season, and some huge predictions for Omaha. I talked to them both ahead of the 2021 season to find out the biggest storylines, break down their rankings and get some way too early predictions ( see our last conversation here). Kendall Rogers and Aaron Fitt are the coeditors of - total experts in all things NCAA baseball.
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