Jerry Grasco of Texas Tech Softball won the big 12 titles
Jerry Grasco of Texas Tech Softball won the big 12 titles
Now that the Texas Tech softball team has secured the first Big 12 conference title in program history, the Red Raiders can focus on padding their resumes in hopes of hosting the NCAA Regional next month.
The 11th place Red Raiders were 39-11 in the season, moving to 18-3 in their title clinch series victory at Arizona State in last week’s big 12 plays. They also rank 20th in the RPI, behind fellow big 12 teams Arizona and Oklahoma. But the question is whether Nijaly Canady and the Red Raiders will return to Rocky Johnson Field for the postseason.
Texas Tech concludes the regular season with a three-game series at BYU.
Can Texas Tech Softball host the region with the old team Stanford in Nijaly Canadi?
College Sports Madness and Softball America each have Texas Tech, hosting the Lubbock region for the start of the tournament.
The Red Raiders are the 15th overall seed in Softball America and 16th in College Sports Madness. The top 16 teams each host a region.
Each of these outlets also has very interesting visitors to Lubbock in projection. Both have Stanford as the second seed in the predicted Lubbock region.
If that were to happen, it would be added to the Texas Tech drama. Of course, Stanford was where Canady spent her first two years in college, where she became the most dominant pitcher in the country, taking Cardinal to the Women’s College World Series for both seasons. Canady has chosen to move to Texas Tech this season and try something new. He then chose to earn more than $1 million in names, images and likenesses from Tech’s Nil Arm, Matador Club.
Softball America has Indiana as the third seed in the projected Lubbock Regional. The Hoosiers visited Texas Tech earlier this year as part of the Jeannine Mchaney Memorial Classic. College Sports Madness is projected to be Big Ten School in Michigan.
