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Texas looking to end a curious Disch-Falk Field drought by avoiding elimination

Joe Cookby:Joe Cook•06/01/25•

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The Texas Longhorns are on the brink.

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Texas, the No. 1 seed in the Austin regional and the No. 2 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, lost Sunday morning to two-seed UTSA 9-7. The Longhorns brought a 6-1 lead into the fifth inning but four Roadrunner runs in the fourth, three in the seventh, plus one more insurance run in the ninth put UTSA a win away from the Super Regional round.

The Longhorns will start Ruger Riojas on the mound against Kansas State in an elimination game, and he’ll attempt to put Texas in position to defeat the Roadrunners twice.

If he and his teammates are successful in defeating the Wildcats, Texas will return to a place it hasn’t been since 2022.

Texas has not played in a home regional final since the 2022 season. That was when a potent offense led by Ivan Melendez powered Texas to the Austin regional final where the Longhorns defeated an Air Force team that featured future LSU star Paul Skenes. Texas won that game, then topped South Florida in the Austin Super Regional, to get to the 2022 College World Series.

Since then, the Longhorns haven’t been able to play for a regional championship at UFCU Disch-Falk Field. The Longhorns advanced out of the Coral Gables regional in 2023, defeating Louisiana, Miami (Fla.), and Miami once again to reach the Stanford Super Regional.

In 2024, Texas played the regional round at College Station. Losses to Texas A&M and Louisiana knocked Texas out of the NCAA Tournament and ended the David Pierce era.

This is by no means the longest stretch without a home regional final this century. No regional round was hosted in Austin from 2012 until the 2018 season. That’s despite Texas hosting a few Super Regionals and advancing to multiple College World Series in that timeframe.

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But for a program like Texas, a stretch without a home game for the chance to advance to the final 16 is an outlier. The Longhorns look to end that stretch over the next two days starting at 2 p.m. on ESPN.

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