After the Texas Tech baseball team picked up two wins to begin last week’s Big 12 Tournament, most were confident that the Red Raiders would hear their name called Monday as the NCAA Tournament field was announced. That assumption was upheld on Memorial Day as Tim Tadlock’s team made the tournament for the 7th year in a row.
However, advancing out of the first weekend will be difficult given that the Red Raiders are in a tough regional, one that is being hosted by one of the favorites to win the College World Series. No. 2 overall seed Florida will be the heavy favorite to advance out of the Gainesville regional after posting a 44-14 record and a 20-10 mark in SEC regular-season play, good enough to secure the conference regular-season title in what is almost unanimously believed to be the best baseball conference in the NCAA.