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No. 5 Texas Tech, Oklahoma Meet in Elimination Game Friday
May 27, 2016 | Baseball
Michael Davis and the Red Raiders continue the Big 12 Championship at 3:15 p.m. Friday afternoon when Texas Tech faces Oklahoma in an elimination game.
GAME INFO: Date: May 27 | Location: Oklahoma City, Okla. | TV: FOX College Sports
May 27, 2016
FIRST PITCH...• No. 5 Texas Tech will look to continue its stay in Oklahoma City on Friday afternoon when the Red Raiders meet Oklahoma in an elimination game. First pitch is slated for 3:15 p.m. at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark.
• Friday will mark the fourth time in the last five years where Texas Tech and Oklahoma have met in the Big 12 Championship. The Red Raiders are 0-3 in those games.
• Texas Tech is 3-8 all-time against Oklahoma during the Big 12 Championship. The Red Raiders have not defeated the Sooners during the tournament since the opening round game of the 2001 tournament as Oklahoma has won each of the past six meetings against Tech.
• The Red Raiders swept a three-game series against Oklahoma earlier this year in Lubbock. Texas Tech won all three games by at least five runs as the Red Raiders outscored the Sooners, 24-8, during the weekend set.
• Texas Tech is coming off a 9-4 setback Thursday afternoon at the hands of West Virginia. The Red Raiders previously opened the tournament with an 8-5 victory Wednesday over Kansas State, marking Tech's first opening-round win since the 2005 season.
• Texas Tech is hitting .348 overall over the course of the first two days of the tournament. Tyler Neslony and Stephen Smith have led the Red Raiders at the plate, hitting .556 overall (5-for-9) while Tyler Floyd (4-for-8) and Hunter Hargrove (3-for-6) have both compiled .500 averages. Hargrove leads Tech with four RBI.
• Texas Tech is looking to become the first Big 12 regular-season champion to win the conference tournament since Texas A&M claimed a share of the regular-season title and then went on to win the Big 12 Championship in 2011.
TEXAS TECH IN THE BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIP
• Texas Tech is making its 16th appearance at the Big 12 Championship where the Red Raiders are 17-31 all-time in the event.
• Texas Tech's victory over K-State on Wednesday marked the first time the Red Raiders had won their opening-round game of the Big 12 Championship since defeating Nebraska, 5-3, in 2005. Tech is now 6-10 all-time in Big 12 Championship openers.
•Texas Tech's eight runs against K-State marked its most in a Big 12 Championship opening round game since 2001 when the Red Raiders routed Oklahoma, 17-5.
• Texas Tech is looking to win multiple games in the Big 12 Championship for the first time since defeating Texas and Texas A&M in 2000. The Red Raiders also won multiple games during both the 1997 and 1998 tournaments.
• The Red Raiders are looking to become the first Big 12 regular-season champion to win the conference tournament since Texas A&M in 2011.
• Texas Tech is the top seed in the tournament for just the second time in program history as the Red Raiders previously won the league's inaugural 1997 regular-season title. Tech finished 3-2 overall in the 1997 Big 12 Championship, falling to Oklahoma, 19-17, in the title game in what is still the highest-scoring game in tournament history.
• No. 1 seeds are 47-32 all-time in the Big 12 Championship but have appeared in the championship game just once since the 2010 season (2014 - Oklahoma State).
• Texas Tech is 5-11 all-time in the Big 12 Championship against its side of the bracket as the Red Raiders are 2-2 against Kansas State and 3-8 against Oklahoma. Tech and West Virginia met for the first time in the history of the event on Thursday.
• Texas Tech is 15-25 all-time at the Big 12 Championship when the tournament is held at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City. This is Tech's 13th trip to Bricktown for the Big 12 Championship.
