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Texas Baseball: Saluting the 2023 Big 12 champions

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A month ago today, the Texas baseball team started a three-game series with Oklahoma. And the Horns disappointingly dropped all three games to the Sooners in Austin.

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The season looked like it would end with the Horns somewhere in the middle of the Big 12 pack.

Yet after the Horns swept previous conference leader West Virginia this weekend, Texas finished the regular season in a three-way tie for first for the conference title.

West Virginia and Oklahoma State also finished 15-9 in conference play. But Texas enters the conference tournament as the league’s No. 1 seed because of a tie-breaker.

It is the university’s 80th conference title in the program’s storied history.

The 2023 Big 12 Tournament begins this weekend in Arlington. Texas is the No. 1 seed and will face No. 8 seed Kansas on Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. Central at Globe Life Field.

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The Horns football coaches continue lining up official visits for recruits in the month of June.

It’s an impressive list, one that not only includes most of the state’s best prospects, but also goes coast to coast.

It’s clear that the Horns’ staff is widening its net more in Sark’s third full year of recruiting.

Part of that comes with the addition of Tashard Choice to the staff and his exploits in both Florida and Georgia, another part comes from the impending move to the SEC and yet a third resides with Sark and his native California.

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Because of this factors and more, this recruiting class already feels and is shaping up different. It feels like, even with just three commitments to this point, that the class will have a more national feel to it.

And that will mean more patience.

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