Texas locks up NCAA tournament hosting bid despite Big 12 title game loss to Oklahoma

David Pierce and the Texas Longhorns lost to Oklahoma 8-1 in Sunday’s Big 12 tournament championship game.There’s no perfect way to salve a blowout loss to your chief rival, particularly when there’s a title on the line. And Oklahoma’s 8-1 win over Texas in Sunday’s Big 12 tournament championship game at Globe Life Field will sting the Longhorns for a time, though they won’t have long to dwell on it.

“I mean, you come into a tournament like this with the University of Texas to win championships, and our guys were set on trying to win this thing,” Texas assistant coach Sean Allen, who served as acting manager after Pierce’s ejection, told Longhorn Radio Network after the game. “But there are a lot of meaningful games here, and that's just going to help us in postseason play to take these experiences against really good baseball teams.

But there was at least one other bright spot for Texas amid Sunday’s beatdown: First baseman Ivan Melendez smashed his record-breaking 29th home run in the first inning to snap a tie with Kyle Russell atop the school’s single-season leaderboard.

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