2021 Big 12 Conference baseball tournament

The 2021 Big 12 Conference baseball tournament was held from May 25 through 30 at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The annual tournament determines the conference champion of the Division I Big 12 Conference for college baseball. The winner of the tournament earned the league's automatic bid to the 2021 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.^[2]

2021 Big 12 Conference
baseball tournament

Teams	9
Format	two bracket Double-elimination tournament with championship game
Finals site	Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Champions	TCU (3rd title)
Winning coach	Jim Schlossnagle (3rd title)
MVP	Porter Brown (TCU)
Television	Bracket Play: ESPN+, ESPNU Championship: ESPN2
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2021 Big 12 Conference baseball standings

v t e	Conf.									Overall
Team	W		L		T		PCT			W		L		T		PCT
No. 3 Texas ‍†‍‍y	17	–	7	–	0		.708			50	–	17	–	0		.746
No. 8 TCU ‍†‍‡‍y	17	–	7	–	0		.708			41	–	19	–	0		.683
No. 9 Texas Tech ‍‍‍y	14	–	10	–	0		.583			39	–	17	–	0		.696
No. 23 Oklahoma State ‍‍‍y	12	–	12	–	0		.500			36	–	19	–	1		.652
Oklahoma  ‍‍‍	11	–	13	–	0		.458			27	–	28	–	0		.491
Baylor  ‍‍‍	11	–	13	–	0		.458			31	–	20	–	0		.608
Kansas State  ‍‍‍	10	–	14	–	0		.417			34	–	23	–	0		.596
West Virginia  ‍‍‍	8	–	16	–	0		.333			25	–	27	–	0		.481
Kansas  ‍‍‍	8	–	16	–	0		.333			30	–	27	–	0		.526
† – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 26, 2021[1] Rankings from D1baseball

Format and seeding

Unlike the preceding and succeeding tournaments, all 9 teams made the 2021 tournament. There was a two-bracket double elimination tournament, leading to a winner-take-all championship game. The 8th and 9th placed teams played in a play-in game to determine who will compete in the bracket.

Place	Seed	Team	Conference				Overall
			W	L	%	GB	W	L	T	%
1	1	Texas	17	7	.708	–	40	13	0	.755
1	2	TCU	17	7	.708	–	37	16	0	.698
3	3	Texas Tech	14	10	.583	3	35	13	0	.729
4	4	Oklahoma State	12	12	.500	5	32	16	1	.663
5	5	Oklahoma	11	13	.458	6	27	26	0	.509
5	6	Baylor	11	13	.458	6	31	18	0	.633
7	7	Kansas State	10	14	.417	7	31	22	0	.585
8	8	West Virginia	8	16	.333	9	23	25	0	.479
8	9	Kansas	8	16	.333	9	30	26	0	.536

Results

	Play-in May 25
	8	West Virginia	8
	9	Kansas	7

	First round May 26					Second round May 27–May 28					Semifinals May 29						Finals May 30
	1	Texas	1
	8	West Virginia	5
						8	West Virginia	2
						4	Oklahoma State	128
	4	Oklahoma State	9
	5	Oklahoma	5
											4	Oklahoma State	5	-
											1	Texas	4	-
	1	Texas	4
	5	Oklahoma	1
						1	Texas	3
						8	West Virginia	2
																	4	Oklahoma State	7
																	2	TCU	10
	3	Texas Tech	11
	6	Baylor	4
						3	Texas Tech	2
						2	TCU	7
	2	TCU	7
	7	Kansas State	6
											2	TCU	2	178
											7	Kansas State	5	7
	6	Baylor	4
	7	Kansas State	9
						7	Kansas State	7
						3	Texas Tech	2

Conference championship game

Big 12 Championship
(2) TCU Horned Frogs	vs.	(4) Oklahoma State Cowboys

May 30, 5 p.m. (CDT) at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Oklahoma State	0	0	5	0	0	0	1	1	0	7	8	0
TCU	0	2	2	1	5	0	0	0	X	10	9	2
WP: G. Wright (3–1)   LP: C. Bowman (0–1) Attendance: 7204

All-Tournament team

Position	Player	School
C	Zach Humphreys	TCU
1B	Zach Zubia	Texas
2B	Gray Rodgers	TCU
SS	Maui Ahuna	Kansas
3B	Christian Encarnacion-Strand	Oklahoma State
OF	Zach Kokoska	Kansas State
OF	Caeden Trenkle	Oklahoma State
OF	Porter Brown	TCU
DH	Hunter Wolfe	TCU
SP	Justin Campbell	Oklahoma State
SP	Jackson Wolf	West Virginia
RP	Eric Torres	Kansas State
MOP	Porter Brown	TCU