2016 Big 12 Conference baseball tournament

2016 Big 12 Conference
baseball tournament
Teams8
FormatTwo bracket, double-elimination tournament
with single championship game
Finals site
ChampionsTCU (2nd title)
Winning coachJim Schlossnagle (2nd title)
MVPLuken Baker (TCU)
TelevisionBracket Play: FCS Central
Championship: FSN
2016 Big 12 Conference baseball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T   PCT W   L   T   PCT
No. 5 Texas Tech ‍‍‍y 19 5 0   .792 47 20 0   .701
No. 4 Oklahoma State ‍‍‍y 16 8 0   .667 43 22 0   .662
No. 3 TCU ‍‍y 15 9 0   .625 49 18 0   .731
West Virginia ‍‍‍ 12 11 0   .522 36 22 0   .621
Oklahoma ‍‍‍ 11 13 0   .458 30 27 1   .526
Baylor ‍‍‍ 10 14 0   .417 24 29 0   .453
Texas ‍‍‍ 10 14 0   .417 25 32 0   .439
Kansas State ‍‍‍ 8 16 0   .333 26 31 0   .456
Kansas ‍‍‍ 6 17 0   .261 20 35 1   .366
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA tournament
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball [1]


The 2016 Big 12 Conference baseball tournament was held from May 25 through 29 at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The annual tournament determined the conference champion of the Division I Big 12 Conference for college baseball. The TCU Horned Frogs won the Tournament Championship, and as the winner of the tournament, TCU earned the league's automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[2][3]

The tournament has been held since 1997, the inaugural year of the Big 12 Conference. Among current league members, Texas has won the most championships with five. Among original members, Baylor and Kansas State have never won the event. Iowa State discontinued their program after the 2001 season without having won a title. Having joined in 2013, TCU won their first title in 2014 while West Virginia has yet to win the Tournament.

The newest conference members, TCU and West Virginia, faced each other in the Championship game. Earlier in the season, TCU swept the regular season series over West Virginia. The Frogs won the 2014 Big 12 Tournament championship, and the Mountaineers' appearance in the tournament finale marked the first time since 1996 that WVU had played for a conference tournament championship. TCU won the championship game 11–10 in 10 innings.

  1. ^ "2020 Big 12 Baseball Record Book" (PDF). Big 12 Conference. pp. 4–8. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  2. ^ "2015 Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship". big12sports.com. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
  3. ^ Tim Griffin (May 21, 2015). "City won't bid for Big 12 baseball tournament at the Alamodome". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved December 28, 2015.