Dallas Baptist, Oregon State Embarrass TCU Baseball in Fort Worth Regional

TCU won the Big 12 Conference Tournament, but not the NCAA Fort Worth Regional.

TCU baseball had what it wanted: 

• A Big 12 regular-season co-championship.
• A Big 12 conference tournament championship.
• A national six-seed ranking in the 2021 NCAA Division 1 Baseball tournament.
• An NCAA Fort Worth, Texas, regional tournament in its home stadium, Lupton.
• An opportunity to host a Super Regional and earn a sixth trip to the College Word Series in Omaha, Nebraska.

Fort Worth was rockin'. New purple "Toad to Omaha" T-shirts were being printed by the thousands.

Then, along came Dallas Baptist and Oregon State, neither of whom were impressed by the Frogs, the Big 12 or Fort Worth.

Frogball U.S.A., unfortunately, quickly became Flatball U.S.A.

After TCU won its opening game of the NCAA Fort Worth Regional, 12-4, against McNeese, the Frogs dropped consecutive games to Dallas Baptist, 8-6, and Oregon State, 3-2. 

The two losses eliminated TCU from its regional and forced the Frogs to watch the Patriots and Beavers play each other for the regional championship and the right to play in a Super Regional for a trip to Omaha.

Dallas Baptist defeated Oregon State 8-5 on Monday, June 7, and celebrated on the hallowed grounds of TCU's Lupton Stadium. 

The Patriots advance to play Virginia in a best-of-three Super Regional that begins on Saturday, June 12, in Columbia, South Carolina. The winner receives a spot in the 2021 College World Series.

TCU was the only one of eight 2021 NCAA national seeds to lose a regional tournament. Fellow Big-12 members and national seeds Texas (#2) and Texas Tech (#8) won their regional tournaments. The Longhorns and Red Raiders will host Super Regionals in Austin and Lubbock, respectively, with opportunities to earn College World Series berths.

Meanwhile, TCU finished its 2020-21 season 41-19, and 658 miles from TD Ameritrade Stadium in Omaha.

And TCU head baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle may continue his coaching career 176 miles away from Fort Worth, at Texas A&M, in College Station.