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Kansas' biggest win of the season doesn't even require them picking up a bat

The Kansas Jayhawks are a team no ones wants to face right now.
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Kansas Jayhawks baseball coaches and players await the start of the game against Wichita State at Hoglund Ballpark on April 14, 2026.
Kansas Jayhawks baseball coaches and players await the start of the game against Wichita State at Hoglund Ballpark on April 14, 2026. | Evert Nelson/The Capital-Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

The Kansas Jayhawks simply can not find a way to lose right now, and there has been no luck involved in what has made them exceptional over the past couple of weeks. 

When Kansas finished the regular season with a 39-16 regular-season record, everyone knew that the Jayhawks were a dangerous team, but also one that hadn’t seen the biggest stages yet. Fast forward to today, and all of a sudden, KU has been awarded a Super Regional spot and is also the Big 12 Tournament and regular-season champions. 

The last time Kansas was a regular-season champion was 77 years ago, and the last time the Jayhawks were a tournament champion was back in 2006. Despite both those seasons, the 2026 campaign will mark Kansas’ first ever inside a Super Regional. 

The stars are lining up perfectly for a first College World Series

Kansas entered the Big 12 Tournament as the conference’s No. 1 seed and pushed past Baylor, Oklahoma State and West Virginia by a 26-9 margin. While games against the Bears and the Cowboys involved stumbles, Kansas was more than deserving of their first conference title in 20 years. 

Despite deepening their resume, the Jayhawks were tabbed as the NCAA’s No. 15 overall seed, just one spot above the cutoff for hosts, making them hosts for the first time in the school’s history. 

Kansas was given one of the toughest brackets around, comprising Missouri State (No. 23 RPI), Arkansas (No. 21 RPI) and Northeastern (No. 88 RPI). 

Despite an occasional moment of fear, the Jayhawks pushed past the Huskies 6-3 last Friday to launch a 1-0 start. The next day against the Razorbacks, against one of the nation’s best MLB prospects in pitcher Hunter Dietz, Kansas kept a cool eye in front of the plate and squeaked out a 5-3 win, meaning Kansas had to win just one more game to cement themselves as the program’s best-ever squad. 

Kansas quickly fell behind 5-0 and looked out of hope by the fourth inning. Yet a sudden 6-0 surge propelled Kansas ahead in the fifth before a 7-5 run fended off any chance at the Razorbacks spoiling KU’s season. 

While Kansas had done everything they needed to in order to book a ticket to the Super Regionals, if Oklahoma was to take down No. 2 Georgia Tech, then Kansas would not only be Super Regional participants, but hosts as well. 

The Sooners fell behind 7-3 by the middle of the sixth, and things looked as if they would only get worse, before four runs over the final nine outs pushed Oklahoma to extra innings, and they would keep the bats rolling off a walk-off homer, completing the upset. 


Oklahoma winning means that next weekend, the Jayhawks will get to play host to the Sooners in the best-of-three series. If the Jayhawks can push past the SEC school, then KU will be one step closer to a glorious College World Series Championship. 

Earlier Tuesday, the first pitch times were announced, as game one is set for June 6th at 5 p.m. CT. Game two the following day at 5 p.m. CT, and if necessary, a game three will settle the series next Monday, with the time to be decided. 

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