The No. 5 ranked Texas Tech baseball team begins play in the NCAA Tournament today and its fortunes will depend on a stellar group of underclassmen.
Conventional wisdom suggests that experienced players are the ones upon which successful teams must rely, especially in the postseason. However, Tim Tadlock’s Texas Tech baseball team heads into today’s regional tournament counting on an unusually high number of underclassmen to play crucial roles.
Four of the team’s top nine hitters are underclassmen with three being freshmen. First year players Grant Little (.342 batting average), Michael Berglund (.311) and Josh Jung (.