AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Longhorns baseball team will begin its 2021 season ranked among the nation's elite teams in the NCAA.
UT came in at the No. 9 spot in the preseason poll. It's UT's first top 10 preseason ranking since 2015. The Longhorns had their season cut short in 2020 due to COVID-19. The team went 14-3 overall before the cancellations of all spring NCAA sports in March 2020.
Texas held its first official spring practice on Jan. 29. They opened the season against three other top-10 teams right off the bat in No. 7 Mississippi State, No. 8 Arkansas and No. 6 Ole Miss in the State Farm College Baseball Showdown.
Here is a look at the 2021 baseball season schedule:
Texas Longhorns record: 50-17 (17-7)
State Farm College Baseball Showdown:
- Feb 20: vs. Mississippi State – L, 3-8
- Feb 21: vs. Arkansas – L 0-4
- Feb. 22: vs. Ole Miss – L 1-8
Rest of regular season schedule:
- Feb. 24/25/26/27 (four games): vs. BYU – W 3-1 / W 12-6 / W 1-1 / L 4-5
- March 2: vs. Texas A&M–Corpus Christi – Texas wins, 12-1
- March 3: at Texas State – Texas wins, 10-3
- March 5/6/7 (three games): at Houston – W 1-0; L 3-2 (11 innings); W 8-2
- March 9: vs. Sam Houston – W 15-9
- March 12/13/14: vs. South Carolina – W 4-1; W 3-0; W 8-5
- March 16: vs UTRGV – W 15-2 (7 innings)
- March 19/20/21 (three games): at Baylor – W 5-3; W 4-3; L 11-2
- March 23: vs. Incarnate Ward – W 10-1
- March 26/27/28 (three games): vs. Oklahoma – W 4-3 (11 innings); W 11-6; L 3-2
- March 30: at Texas A&M – L 2-0
- April 1/2/3 (three games): at Kansas – W 5-2; W 7-0; W 11-2
- April 6: vs. Texas A&M–Corpus Christi – W 14-4
- April 7: vs. Stephen F. Austin – W 9-1
- April 9/10/11 (three games): vs. Kansas State – W 13-6; W 15-1; W 9-2
- April 13/14 (two games): vs. Nevada – W 4-3; W 6-5
- April 16/17/18 (three games) vs. Abilene Christian – W 18-0; W 3-1; W 11-1
- April 20: at Texas State – W 5-1
- April 23/24/25 (three games): at Oklahoma State – W 4-3; W 5-2; L 7-3
- April 27: vs. Incarnate Ward – W 5-3
- April 30/May 1,2 (three games): vs. Texas Tech – L 6-3; L 5-3; W 11-3
- May 4: vs. Texas State – W 4-1
- May 7/8/9 (three games): at TCU – W 5-4; L 2-1; W 9-3
- May 11: vs. Texas Southern – canceled
- May 18: vs. Rice – canceled
- May 20/21/22 (three games): vs. West Virginia – L 5-4; W 14-3; W 12-2 (8 innings)
Big 12 Championship Tournament
- May 26: vs. West Virginia – L 5-1
- May 27: vs. Oklahoma – W 4-1
- May 28: vs. West Virginia – W 3-2
- May 29: vs. Oklahoma State – L 5-4
NCAA Regionals
June 4: vs. Southern University – W 11-0
June 5: vs. Arizona State – W 10-3
June 6: Fairfield – W 12-2
NCAA Super Regionals
June 12: Game 1 vs. USF – W 4-3
June 13: Game 2 vs. USF – W 12-4
College World Series
June 20: vs. Mississippi State – L 1-2
June 22: vs. Tennessee – W 8-4
June 24: vs. Virginia – W 6-2
June 25: vs. Mississippi State – W 8-5
June 26: vs. Mississippi State – L 4-3
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