No. 14 Kansas Falls in Extras to End Regular Season

Saturday, May 16

Provo, Utah

2 p.m. CT

University of Kansas

39-16, 22-8

BYU

27-27, 14-16

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Kansas	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	10	0
BYU	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	5	15	1

No. 14 Kansas Falls in Extras to End Regular Season

5/16/2026 6:13:00 PM | Baseball

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PROVO, Utah – No. 14 Kansas Baseball dropped its regular season finale 5-4 to BYU in 11 innings at Miller Park on Saturday afternoon. Despite the loss, Kansas won the Big 12 Conference regular season title outright on Friday evening.

Kansas finished the regular season with a 39-16 overall record and a 22-8 mark in Big 12 play. The 22 conference wins and eight Big 12 series victories are both new program records.

The Jayhawks will head to Surprise, Arizona, as the No. 1 seed for the Big 12 Baseball Tournament next week.

KU scored three runs in the first two innings to build a 3-0 lead. Similar to the past two games, BYU tied the game up at 3-3. The Cougars scored a run in the bottom of the eighth to take a 4-3 lead, but Kansas was able to tie it with a sacrifice fly in the ninth. In the 11th inning, BYU's Ryder Robinson hit a walk-off solo homer to win it. Kansas stranded 14 runners on base in the game.

Mathis Nayral made the start and gave the Jayhawks exactly the outing they needed. Nayral allowed only one run over five innings and recorded nine strikeouts. Manning West threw two scoreless innings of relief. Kannon Carr had thrown three scoreless innings before the walk-off homer.

HOW IT HAPPENED
• Kansas jumped on the scoreboard in the top of the first inning for two runs. Cade Baldridge delivered the first run with an RBI double and Josh Dykhoff hit a sacrifice fly to make it 2-0 Jayhawks.
• In the second, the Jayhawks tacked on another run from a Max Soliz Jr. solo homer. That made it 3-0 Kansas.
• BYU (27-27, 14-16 Big 12) pieced together a two-out rally in the third inning with three consecutive singles. That scored a run to make it 3-1.
• The Cougars tied up the game in the sixth inning on a two-run homer by Matt Hansen.
• In the eighth, BYU took a 4-3 lead on an RBI double from Bryker Hurdsman.
• Kansas answered back with a sacrifice fly from Brady Ballinger in the top of the ninth. That tied the game at 4-4.
• The teams played a scoreless 10th inning before Robinson hit the walk-off blast in the 11th.

PITCHERS OF RECORD
Win: Dan Brousseau (4-0)
Final line: 2.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 2 SO
Loss: Kannon Carr (3-2)
Final line: 3.0 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 0 BB, 3 SO

QUOTABLES & NOTABLES
"We stranded too many runners and they stranded a bunch too. I think that can be a sign of good offense and can also be a sign of good pitching. I think we saw a little bit of all of that today. They're a good offensive team and it takes a lot to hold them down. We made a decision today to limit the guys out of our bullpen. We needed to get some other guys some work. Obviously, we're thrilled to be coming out of here with a championship. It's another game we can learn from." – Head Coach Dan Fitzgerald

• Kansas won the Big 12 Conference regular season title outright. It's the first regular season conference championship for Kansas since 1949 as a member of the Big Seven and the fourth regular season conference championship in school history (1923, 1924, 1949).
• Kansas moved to 39-16 overall this season and finished Big 12 play with a 22-8 record.
• Kansas ended the regular season with 22 conference victories, a new school record. The Jayhawks set the program record last season with 20 conference victories.
• Kansas won its eighth conference series of the season to set a new school record. The previous record was set last season with seven conference series wins.
• Kansas has at least 39 wins in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 1993-94 and only the second time in program history.
• Soliz Jr. hit his fifth home run of the season.

UP NEXT
Kansas will head to the 2026 Big 12 Baseball Tournament presented by Allstate in Surprise, Arizona, at Surprise Stadium. Kansas has earned a double bye and will be the No. 1 seed in the tournament. The first game will be on Thursday, May 21 at 1:30 p.m. CT and the opponent will be determined next week.