Texas baseball holds at No. 10 despite dominant weekend vs. Baylor

The showing for No. 10 ranked Texas baseball and head coach David Pierce over the weekend in a dominant three-game series sweep at home over the Baylor Bears was the best we’ve seen this team play in any series in Big 12 play so far this season. Texas thoroughly dominated Baylor, winning each of the three games by at least nine runs.

Pierce and the Longhorns knocked off Baylor in three straight games by a combined margin of 37 runs. That is the biggest margin of victory of the season so far by a wide margin for Texas in Big 12 play too.

For that reason, it looked like the Longhorns could finally buck the trend of falling down the D1 Baseball top 25 rankings this week. But Texas held serve at No. 10 in this week’s top 25 poll from D1 Baseball, behind the likes of the No. 9 Texas Tech Red Raiders and No. 8 Oklahoma State Cowboys.

Part of the reasoning for the Longhorns holding at No. 10 in this week’s D1 Baseball top 25 poll is likely the embarrassing loss by a mark of a dozen runs to the Air Force Falcons from early last week. That was one of the worst losses of the season so far for the Longhorns.

David Pierce and Texas baseball hold steady at No. 10 in this week’s top 25

But the team at least had about as strong of a bounce-back performance as you can in a key weekend series against the Bears. Texas will also have a clear opportunity to make a sizable jump in the top 25 polls this coming week.

Pierce and the Longhorns are set to face UTRGV in a one-game midweek series on the road on April 26. Texas should have a winnable contest in that one before facing No. 8 Oklahoma State is one of the most important weekend series of the entire regular season.

Texas will host Oklahoma State in a three-game weekend series starting on April 29 at home at UFCU Disch-Falk Field. Winning that series should at least get the Longhorns over Oklahoma State in the polls next week.

Following Texas’ convincing 13-4 win to sweep the weekend series over Baylor on April 24, this team is sporting a record of 30-13 (9-6 Big 12) while sitting on a four-game winning streak. The first pitch time between Texas and UTRGV on April 26 is set for 6:30 p.m. CT.