Texas Tech Baseball Releases 2013 Schedule
By: Scott Lacefield - Texas Tech University
Updated: October 3, 2012
LUBBOCK, Texas - Texas Tech first-year head baseball coach Tim Tadlock announced the Red Raiders 2013 baseball schedule Wednesday morning.
The
Red Raiders 56-game schedule is highlighted by 30 home games at Dan Law
Field at Rip Griffin Park, a midweek series in Tucson, Ariz., against
defending NCAA national
champion Arizona, playing 25 games against 10 opponents that advanced to
the NCAA Tournament in 2012 and taking on eight conference champions
from last season.
"We
are very excited about our schedule," Tadlock said. "Besides playing in
one of the elite college baseball conferences in the country, our
non-conference schedule
will be as competitive as any team in the nation. Our fans have a lot of
exciting baseball to look forward to this upcoming season and we
encourage all Red Raider fans to purchase season tickets."
Tech
opens the 2013 schedule hosting the fourth-annual Brooks Wallace
Memorial Classic. The Red Raiders will face Northern Illinois on Opening
Day on Friday, Feb.
15 at 6 p.m. Tech also welcomes Northern Colorado and BYU during the
opening weekend.
Tech
will make its first road trip with five games in five days in Florida,
beginning with the University of Central Florida Tournament in Orlando
facing Troy (Feb.
22), UCF (Feb. 23) and Connecticut (Feb. 24) before taking on Florida
International in Miami, Feb. 25-26.
Tech's
21-game March slate begins at home with LaSalle (Mar. 1-3) before
traveling to Tucson for a midweek, two-game series with defending
national champion Arizona,
Mar. 5-6. It will mark the fourth time Tech has faced a defending
national champion in non-conference play and the first since taking on
Rice in 2004.
The
Red Raiders welcome a pair of defending conference champions as UT
Arlington (Mar. 8-10) and Utah Valley (Mar. 12) make the trip to Lubbock
before Tech opens Big
12 play at Texas (Mar. 15-17).
Arizona
State will visit Lubbock for the first time since 2006 with a midweek
game Tuesday, Mar. 19, before Tech plays a three-game series at West
Virginia marking
the first-ever meeting between the Red Raiders and Mountaineers, Mar.
22-24.
Tech
and West Virginia will play their series at Appalachian Power Park in
Charleston, W. Va., approximately 67 miles from the West Virginia campus
(Morgantown, W.
Va.) at the Pittsburgh Pirates Single-A stadium.
After
a midweek game at defending Western Athletic Conference champion New
Mexico State (Mar. 25), the Red Raiders will return home to close the
month of March hosting
TCU (Mar. 29-31) for its first Big 12 series with the Horned Frogs.
Although, Tech and TCU have faced each other in 14 of the last 16 years
since the separation of the Southwest Conference following the 1996
season.
Tech
will equal its longest road swing of the season - five games - at
defending Mountain West Conference champion New Mexico (Apr. 2) followed
by a series at Kansas
State (Apr. 5-7). Tech's road trip will conclude with a midweek game at
NCAA Regional participant Dallas Baptist (Apr. 9).
Baseball
fans in the Lubbock community will circle Sunday, April 14 on their
2013 calendars as Texas Tech will host NAIA powerhouse Lubbock Christian
for a game at
Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park at 6:30 p.m. It will be the first
meeting between the Red Raiders and Chaparrals since 2009.
Tech
will close the month of April with a midweek series at Rice (Apr.
16-17), three-game series at home against Kansas (Apr. 19-21), midweek
home game against New
Mexico State (Apr. 23) and traveling to Oklahoma (Apr. 26-28).
Tech's
season-long six-game homestand will begin with a midweek series against
New Mexico (Apr. 30-May) before Oklahoma State (May 3-5) and Dallas
Baptist (May 7)
travel to Lubbock.
Tech
will head back to New Mexico (May 8) before taking a week off for
finals while closing the regular season with a midweek game at Arizona
State (May 15) and hosting
defending Big 12 champion Baylor (May 16-18) in Lubbock.
The
top eight teams in the league will advance to the Big 12 Championships
(May 22-26) in Oklahoma City at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, home of
the Houston Astros
Triple-A affiliate, the Oklahoma City RedHawks.
2013 SCHEDULE NOTES:
-
Among the 10 NCAA Tournament teams Tech will face are three NCAA Super
Regional programs and the defending national champions (Arizona).
- Tech will play eight teams that finished the 2012 season nationally ranked.
- Red Raiders will play 18 games against teams that finished the year nationally ranked.
- Red Raiders will close the regular season playing eight of its final 10 games at home.
- Tech will play in seven states: Texas, Florida, Arizona, West Virginia, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma.
SCHEDULE BREAKDOWN:
- Total Games: 56
- Home Games: 30
- Road Games: 24
- Neutral Games: 2
- Games in Texas: 36
- Games in Florida: 5
- Games in Arizona: 3
- Games in West Virginia: 3
- Games in New Mexico: 3
- Games in Kansas: 3
- Games in Oklahoma: 3
- Home Tournaments: 1
- Road Tournaments: 1
- Home Weekend Series: 6
- Home Big 12 Series: 4
- Road Big 12 Series: 4
- Games vs. 2012 NCAA National Champions: 2
- Games vs. 2012 NCAA Tournament Super Regional Teams: 9
- Games vs. NCAA Tournament Teams: 25
- Games vs. #1 or #2 seeded NCAA Tournament teams: 16
- Games vs. 30-win teams: 39
- Games vs. Big 12: 24
- Games vs. WAC: 7
- Games vs. Mountain West: 5
- Games vs. Pac-12: 4
- Games vs. Conference USA: 3
- Games vs. Sun Belt: 3
- Games vs. Atlantic 10: 3
- Games vs. Great West: 3
- Games vs. Mid-American: 2
- Games vs. Big East: 1
- Games vs. NAIA: 1
