Texas Longhorns Baseball
The Texas Longhorns baseball team represents The University of Texas at Austin and competes in the Big 12 Conference of NCAA Division I.
The Texas Longhorns are the winningest NCAA Division I college baseball program with a win percentage of .740. The Longhorns rank second in all-time number of total wins (3,246), behind the Fordham Rams. Texas holds the records for most appearances in the College World Series (34) and most individual CWS games won (82). The Longhorns have won six NCAA baseball national championships (1949, 1950, 1975, 1983, 2002, and 2005) — second to Southern California's total of 12 — and have appeared in the CWS Championship Game or Championship Series on six other occasions (1953, 1984, 1985, 1989, 2004, and 2009). As of the end of the 2011 season, Texas has won 77 regular season conference championships and 15 conference tournament championships in baseball.
Former Longhorns who have gone on to success in Major League Baseball include Roger Clemens, Calvin Schiraldi, Burt Hooton, Keith Moreland, Spike Owen, Mark Petkovsek, Greg Swindell, and Huston Street.
Since 1997, the Longhorns have been led by head coach Augie Garrido, the winningest coach in NCAA baseball history. The team plays its home games at UFCU-Disch-Falk Field.
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