The Longhorns, hosting a regional in the NCAA Tournament for the second\u00a0straight year, will play Holy Cross first Friday and will play either UC-Santa Barbara or Tarleton State the next day.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Holy Cross is 25-28 after winning the Patriot League Tournament.\u00a0Tarleton State (37-19) won the Western Athletic Conference\u00a0in the regular season then dominated the league tournament winning its three games by a combined score of 35-14. UCSB tied for first place in the Big West and is 38-18 despite winning just one game in the conference\u00a0tournament.<\/p>\n
After sharing third in the highly\u00a0completive SEC \u2014 seven of the 16 regional hosts come from the conference \u2014 the Longhorns are a national seed for the fourth time since 2021.<\/p>\n
The winner of the region will take on whichever team emerges from the Eugene Regional:<\/p>\n
Game 3: Game 1 loser vs. Game 2 loser, 1\u00a0p.m.
Game 4: Game 1 winner vs. Game 2, 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Longhorns, hosting a regional in the NCAA Tournament for the second\u00a0straight year, will play Holy Cross first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,112687,1771,53178,112041,112686,537,20340],"class_list":["post-313938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-holy-cross-baseball","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-baseball","tag-ncaa-baseball-tournament","tag-tarleton-state-baseball","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}