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Big XII Tourney: Day 2 Open Thread

Your schedule of events for today in Oklahoma City includes Texas' bracket only:

  • 3:00 PM: Texas vs. Kansas
  • 7:30 PM: Kansas State vs. Baylor
We erroneously reported yesterday that Texas would play K-State in Game Two; that game is actually slated for Saturday.

Since the Big XII uses a ridiculous and asinine round-robin format for the conference tournament, Texas is still very much alive for the tournament title. In order to get there, though, they'll have to accomplish twice what they failed to do even once during the regular season: defeat a team from Kansas. The Longhorns will play the Jayhawks today and the Wildcats on Saturday. Should they win both contests, as long as Baylor loses at least once Texas will advance to Sunday's championship game by virtue of being the highest seed. 

Whether it gets them to the chamipnship game or not, though, it is important for Texas to win at least one of the next two. The Longhorns have already earned a top-eight national seed in our eyes, but it would tempt fate indeed to start the postseason with three losses to teams they ought to beat.

 

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Does anyone know...

if the game will be on the web and/or audio today?

Streaming Video

It looks like all the games are available on the Big 12 site.

Is anyone going to do updates?

I have neither stats nor video working for me at work.

ku - no hits thru 3
3 run HR by rupp
Texas up by 6

Rupp, C. homered to right center, 3 RBI (3-2 SBSBBFFF); Loy, B. scored; Keyes, K. scored.

Just 1 out

Thinking about it...

Yesterday was just fluky. Baylor pounds us and The Guy Who Wasn’t Adam Lambert won Idol…. er, so I hear…

OK, Thursday will get us back to normal.

And as I type this KU hits a solo HR.

Haha I have to admit I watched Idol last night

Of course it was the least I could do for my wife who spent four hours at the Disch for the A&M game

no comment

enough with the bad luck jinxes, aka thursday back to normal, everytime i see comments like that some bad sh*t happens, enough until its over.

Belt is absolutely killing the ball lately

Good time to get hot.

Is gametracker advancing like 4 plays at a time

or am I seriously having a blond moment?

that's how it seems to always work

and i hate it.

hernandez is in left again today

1-4 plus a walk (2 Ks) yesterday, 0-2 so far today.

Belt disappeared from third?

never mind end of inning
7-1 Texas bottom 5

Make that 8-1 bottom 5. Damn game tracker
Can also watch here

Texas vs KU

1 hit 1 left on 8-1 top 6
Rowe grounds out to start the 6th
Hernandez does the same.
Hernandez grounds out 2 away
Torres flys out to center. to the bottom of the 6th
This is more like it
we try to help you out when possible

:)

Lead off batter walks

2nd batter in the inning flys out to hernandez

2 outs runner on second

ground out to Belt ends the threat

8-1 Texas end 6

lead off batter pops out 1 away top 7
KU changing pitchers

Bollman out and Blankenship in

Moldy lifted for Clark

after announced KU changing pitchers

Bochie new pitcher for KU

First batter he faces will be Preston Clark

Clark strikes out. On to the bottom of the 7th
Strike #4 for Ruffin to start the bottom of the 7th
Double for Thompson. 1 out 1 on
Fly out to Rowe. Runner on 2nd 2 away
Ground out to Ruffin to end the 7th

Ruffin 7ip 3 hits 4K

Fly out to right field 1 away
Loy grounds out to first 2 away Rupp up
Rupp strikes out on 3 pitches. On to the bottom of the 8th
Ruffin walks the first batter of the bottom of the 8th

2nd batter triples to left. 8-2 runner on 3rd

Ball gets by Rupp 8-3 still no outs

8-3 to the top of the 9th

I didn’t mean to come in and take over the thread

I appreciate the updates.
Rowe doubles to start the 9th
Hernandez RBI single to center.

 9-3 UT

It was Maitland - he came in for Hernandez last inning
Ahh announcer saying Hernandez
Well, live stats has been known to be wrong...
*hoping it's hernandez*
Torres walked

And then Tucker lined into a tripple play!!!

yup. lined to short toss to second on to first
pop up to keyes. 1 away
Rowe catches fly on track 2 away
i see ruffin is still in

i like this very much

yea game over. strike out to end it
If I kept up

he only gave up 4 hits, 2 walks and 2 runs

3 ER

Complete game by Chance Ruffin. After yesterday’s disaster we needed that.

So the ball that got away from Rupp was scored a wild pitch?
It was scored a passed ball

But I’m guessing that since the next hitter flied to center and there were no outs the run was counted as earned. Can’t confirm though.

Ahh ok.

Sounds like Ruffin had a nice game either way. If Texas makes it to Sunday, would Ruffin get the start again or would one of the other guys get the start with Ruffin possibly coming out of the pen?

I doubt he'll pitch again this week

Just because the Big XII championship doesn’t really mean anything. I’d like to see Dicharry get some extended innings when it doesn’t matter.

True.

Didn’t think about it in grand scheme terms. The more important games would be the regional and hopefully super regionals

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