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Texas Tech Earns No. 7 Seed at Big 12 Championships
May 22, 2011 | Baseball
May 22, 2011
Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship Bracket 
LUBBOCK, Texas - Texas Tech will be the No. 7 seed at the upcoming Phillips 66 Big 12 Championships at RedHawks Field at Bricktown in Oklahoma City. The Red Raiders (33-23) will face No. 2 seed Texas A&M (38-18) at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, May 25, in their first game of the tournament.
The winner of Texas Tech and Texas A&M will face the winner/loser of No. 3 seed Oklahoma (40-15) and No. 6 seed Kansas State (34-21). The winners will play at 7:30 p.m. Thursday while the elimination game between the losing teams will be played at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday. Oklahoma and Kansas State will play the 7:30 p.m. game on Wednesday.
Texas Tech won the series opener against the Aggies this season in Lubbock while Texas A&M bounced back winning the following two games to win the series. The Red Raiders are a combined 0-6 against the Sooners (0-3) and Wildcats (0-3) while suffering series sweeps in Norman, Okla., and Manhattan, Kan., respectively, this season.
The five-day, double-elimination tournament will begin on Wednesday and will conclude with the championship game on Sunday, May 29, at 1 p.m., which will be televised nationally on FSN.
Texas (40-13) and Texas A&M shared the Big 12 regular season championship this season, but the Longhorns are the No. 1 seed in the tournament after winning the series over Texas A&M this past weekend. Texas will face No. 8 seed Missouri (24-30) in the first round at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
Other first-round action features No. 4 tournament seed Oklahoma State (34-21) against No. 5 seed Baylor (29-24) in a 9 a.m. contest Wednesday morning.
Live action from the Championship will be video streamed free on the Big 12 Conference's official website, Big12Sports.com, for the fifth year in a row. Audio from the webcast will also be broadcast on Sirius XM Radio, a Big 12 corporate partner. Single-session tickets for the Championship go on sale Monday, May 23 at 9 a.m. Single-session ticket prices range from: $37 for club-level, $22 for field box, $17 for terrace reserved, $16 for field bleacher and $13 for general admission. All-session tickets are still available from: $202 for club-level, $117 for field box and $87 for terrace reserved.
The winner of the Big 12 Baseball Championship will earn the league's automatic bid to the 2011 NCAA Tournament. The NCAA Baseball Tournament Selection Show will be shown live on ESPN, Monday, May 30 at 11:30 a.m CT.
First Round Matchups - Wednesday, May 25:
No. 5 Baylor (29-24) vs. No. 4 Oklahoma State (34-21) - 9 a.m.
No. 8 Missouri (24-30) vs. No. 1 Texas (40-13) - 12:30 p.m.
No. 7 Texas Tech (33-23) vs. No. 2 Texas A&M (38-18) - 4 p.m.
No. 6 Kansas State (34-21) vs. No. 3 Oklahoma (40-15) - 7:30 p.m.
