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GoFrogs: TCU Baseball Big 12 Tournament Preview
TCU (30-22) at Phillips 66 Big 12 Championships
May 23-27, 2018 | TBA | Oklahoma City, Okla. | Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark

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FORT WORTH - TCU opens play in the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championships Wednesday night against Texas Tech. The game is slated to begin at 7:30 p.m. All tournament games will be televised live on FCS and on FOXSportsGo.

TCU NOTABLES
• TCU enters the Big 12 Tournament as the No. 6 seed in bracket two.
• TCU has won 11 of its last 16 games dating back to April 24.
• TCU ranks seventh in batting average (.260), second in the Big 12 in ERA (3.50) and fifth in fielding percentage (.970).
• TCU has drawn 97 walks in its last 16 games and ranks 15th nationally with 285 walks on the season.
• TCU ranks second in the Big 12 with 499 strikeouts this season.
• Nationally, TCU ranks 14th in K:BB ratio (2.85) and 17th in K/9 (9.60).
• TCU ranks second in the Big 12 with 79 stolen bases.
Coby Boulware ranks fifth among NCAA freshmen with 24 stolen bases. That mark ranks fourth in the Big 12.
• Conner Wanhanen has reached safely in 13 straight.
A.J. Balta and Conner Shepherd have each homered three times in the last seven games.

INSIDE TCU’S BRACKET
• TCU’s side of the bracket features No. 2 Oklahoma State, No. 3 Texas Tech and No. 7 West Virginia.
• TCU played two of the three schools at home this season, posting a 4-5 record in those contests.
• TCU won two of the three series, dropping a road series at Oklahoma State.
• The other bracket features No. 1 Texas, No. 4 Oklahoma, No. 5 Baylor and No. 8 Kansas.
• TCU was a combined 3-5 against the teams that comprise the other bracket.

CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT NOTABLES
• TCU won two conference titles in Conference USA,four in the Mountain West and two in the Big 12.
• TCU has won eight titles in the last 14 years, including the 2014 and 2016 Big 12 championships.
• TCU is 37-15 in conference tournaments under JimSchlossnagle and 43-29 all-time dating back to its first tournament appearance in 1991 as members of the SWC.
• TCU is 12-7 in the Big 12 Tournament, including a 12-5 record in Oklahoma City.
• TCU has had 51 players honored on the all-tournament squads over the last 13 years.
• TCU is 32-12 in road tournament games since the 2004 season.
• Three of TCU’s 15 losses in the conference tournament during the Schlossnalge era have come at Lupton Stadium, one was in Houston in 2004, four in Las Vegas, five in Oklahoma City and two in Tulsa.
• TCU has failed to win a conference tournament game just once (2015) under the guidance of head coach Jim Schlossnagle.
• The Frogs have won tournament titles at Houston, at Southern Miss, at UNLV twice, at TCU, at San Diego State and in Oklahoma City.

NEUTRAL SITE NOTABLES
• TCU has played just one game at a neutral site this season.
• The Horned Frogs took on Vanderbilt in the Dodger Stadium College Baseball Classic dropping a 7-4 decision.
• TCU owns a record of 74-43 in neutral site games under the guidance of Jim Schlossnagle.
 
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