Kansas Baseball Head Coach Dan Fitzgerald claimed Big 12 Coach of the Year for the second consecutive season and seven Jayhawks earned All-Big 12 accolades, the conference office announced Tuesday.
After winning the first Big 12 title in school history, No. 14 Kansas Baseball will begin the 2026 Big 12 Baseball Tournament presented by Allstate on Thursday, May 21 at Surprise Stadium, the spring training facility for the Kansas City Royals and Texas Rangers.
For the first time since 1949, Kansas Baseball has won a regular season conference championship. No. 14 Kansas defeated BYU 7-6 on Friday evening at Miller Park to clinch only its fourth regular season title in school history (1923, 1924, 1949).
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.
No. 14 Kansas Baseball set a new school record for conference wins with a 9-6 victory against BYU on Thursday evening at Miller Park. Kansas now has 21 conference wins, surpassing the previous record of 20 that was set a season ago. The pitching staff also broke the single-season school record for strikeouts and now have 512 this season.
