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Jim Schlossnagle identifies what went wrong for Texas in Austin Regional, loss to UTSA

Danby: Daniel Hager06/03/25DanielHagerOn3
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Texas Baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle watches from the dugout as the Longhorns prepare to take on the Auburn Tigers in the first game of a three-game series on Thursday night at UFCU Disch-Falk Field in Austin, April 17, 2025. | © Sara Diggins/American-Statesman / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

The 2025 NCAA Tournament would end up being a forgettable way to cap off Jim Schlossnagle‘s first season at Texas, as the Longhorns failed to make it out of the Austin Regional for the first time since 2007.

To make matters worse, the two losses that ended their season came at the hands of in-state school UTSA. Now, the Roadrunners will face off against UCLA for a spot in the 2025 Men’s College World Series.

“I think we had a lot of things go our way the first 2/3 of the season,” Schlossnagle said on Sunday. “We’d get the two-out hit, we’d make the two strike pitch. The ball gets hit at us and we won a lot of close games. I think about the [Texas] A&M series. I think they had the tying and go-ahead run on base in all three games to end the game. So kind of living in the margins, but that’s where college baseball is.”

In its first season in the SEC, Texas finished the regular season with a 42-11 (22-8) record and won the SEC Regular Season Championship. The postseason however was extremely unfortunate to the Longhorns, as they went one-and-done in the SEC Tournament and and just 2-2 in the NCAA Tournament.

“You have to go play well at the right time.”

“That’s the difference between the teams that advance and the teams that don’t. I haven’t seen everything that went on today but there’s a lot of really good teams that aren’t playing anymore. That just means the game of baseball got them and there’s other good teams. UTSA is really good. I watched Wright State play and they’re good. Just because you’re in the SEC or a power-five league doesn’t mean there isn’t great baseball being played other places. You have to go play well at the right time.”

Over the span of its two games against UTSA, Texas’ offense hit for just a .260 average (19-73) and totaled 23 strikeouts. It also left 23 runners on base over the two games, including a whopping 14 in the 7-4 loss to end the season. At the end of the day, offensive execution sunk a Longhorn team looking to make its first appearance in the Men’s College World Series since 2022.

The Roadrunners now head West for the Los Angeles Super Regional, which opens Saturday at 7:00 pm ET (ESPNU). The Longhorns will return to Austin, where they have a long offseason ahead of them.