LUBBOCK,
Texas.
– A total of 34
home games and eight NCAA Tournament teams highlight the 2008 Texas Tech
Baseball schedule that was announced today by Head Coach Larry
Hays.
The 2008 season
marks the first under the new NCAA guidelines that mandate a universal start
date for all of college baseball and that date will be Feb. 23. The Red Raiders
will kick of the 2008 season at home with a four-game series against Northern Illinois Feb. 23-25 with a doubleheader set for
Saturday, Feb. 24.
Following a
midweek trip to New Mexico on Tuesday, Feb. 27,
Texas Tech will take part in the Eighth-Annual Minute Maid College Classic where
the Red Raiders will face Houston, Tennessee and Rice. The game against Tennessee will mark the
first-ever meeting between the two schools while the game against Rice will mark
the first of eight opponents that the Red Raiders will face who advanced to last
year’s NCAA Tournament. The Minute Maid
College Classic is set for Feb. 29-March 2 at Minute Maid
Park in Houston.
Texas Tech will
return home for a six-game homestand beginning on March 4 as the Red Raiders
will play their first Tuesday-Wednesday series of the year against Central Arkansas.
Due to the reduction in the number of days allowed for competition in
2008, Texas Tech will play a total six, two-game midweek series. Other midweek series for the Red Raiders will
be at home against UC-Riverside (March 24-25), Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
(April 1-2), New
Mexico (April 8-9), and Dallas Baptist (May 13-14) while
on the road at UNLV (April
15-16).
Texas Tech will
kickoff the Big 12 Conference season on the road at Texas A&M as the Red
Raiders and Aggies open league play against each other for the third time since
2002. The Texas Tech-Texas A&M
series is scheduled for March 14-16 at Olsen Field in College
Station.
The home
portion of the 2008 Big 12 season will begin with a three-game series against
the Texas Longhorns, March 20-22. The
series against Texas is being played Thursday through
Saturday due to the Easter Holiday falling on Sunday, March 23.
The Red Raiders
will take on Missouri (March 28-30), Kansas State (April 18-20), Oklahoma (April 25-27) and Baylor (May 16-18) all at Dan
Law Field while facing Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma State on the
road.
Texas Tech will
wrap up the regular-season schedule at home for the first time in four years as
the Red Raiders will face the Baylor Bears, May 16-18. The Big 12 Championship at Bricktown Ballpark
in Oklahoma City
is set for May 21-25 while the NCAA Regionals are set for May 30-June. The Road To Omaha continues with the NCAA
Super Regionals June 6-9 and the 2008 NCAA Champion will be decided at the
College World Series at Rosenblatt Stadium June 13-23.
--TTU--
