SAN ANTONIO— The UTSA Roadrunners were selected to the Austin Regional as the No. 2 seed, where they will face off against No. 1 Texas Longhorns, No. 3 Kansas State Wildcats and No. 4 Houston Christian Huskies on Friday, May 30 to Sunday, Jun. 1 at UFCU Disch-Falk Field in Austin, Texas.
The Roadrunners will open NCAA postseason play against the third-seeded Kansas State in the first game of the regional tournament at 6 p.m., Friday, May 30, at UFCU Disch-Falk Field in Austin, Texas.
The American Athletic Conference Regular Season Champions enter the tournament with a 44-13 record, a program best as the No. 2 Seed, which is the highest seed UTSA has obtained in any regional.
This is the Roadrunners’ fourth regional appearance in program history, as the previous three were in 1994, 2005 and 2013. This is UTSA’s first regional appearance as an at-large bid, as the Roadrunners made three appearances as an automatic bid by winning the conference tournament.
In the Roadrunners’ first Regional Appearance, they traveled up to Austin, Texas, to play in the NCAA Central Region as the fifth seed, where they lost the first game to No. 19 Nevada 11-8 and fell to Arkansas State 10-5.
In 2005, coached by Sherman Corbett, UTSA competed in the Waco Regional as the fourth seed, taking on No. 6 Baylor in the first game, losing 8-3. The Roadrunners were then eliminated in the second game against Stanford, falling 6-2.
In UTSA’s most recent regional appearance, the Roadrunners competed in the Corvallis Regional as the fourth seed, where they fell 5-4 to No. 3 Oregon State and 6-1 to Texas A&M.
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