After dominating the Fort Worth Regional and defeating Dallas Baptist University, Texas Christian University is two wins away from going to their fourth consecutive College World Series - it would be their fifth appearance overall.
The Horned Frogs are hosting their third Super Regional matchup over the past four years, after winning the College Station Regional over Texas A&M in a three-game series last year.
This year, the co-Big 12 regular season champions, TCU, are the only Big 12 team remaining, despite five other teams making the field of 64. The other half of that co-champion title, Texas Tech, lost an elimination game on their home field to Sam Houston State University just hours before TCU decimated metroplex neighbor DBU.
The Frogs, who were the unanimous pre-season number one and never felt out of the top eight, has lost only five games since the end of April. Now, they must defeat a Missouri State team that just upset the University of Arkansas in their own regional.
TCU is led by undefeated starting pitcher, Jared Janczak, and sophomore slugger, Luken Baker. The squads biggest strength, however, is the depth it returned from last season. That depth is the reason they were a pre-season favorite for Omaha and have handled every challenge throughout the season.
Missouri State has its work cut out for it, if it plans to tame the beast Coach Schlossnagle has built in Fort Worth.
