Oklahoma joins Oklahoma State, TCU and Texas Tech as league teams ranked entering this week’s play. The Sooners check in at No. 23 on the Collegiate Baseball list and are also receiving votes in the USA Today Coaches’ poll. TCU remains ranked in the top 10 in all five polls.

The Sooners moved into a tie with Oklahoma State for first place in the league standings with a 2-1 series win at Texas.

The league’s two top-ranked teams, Oklahoma State and TCU, suffered conference series losses on the road over the weekend as Kansas snapped OSU’s conference series win streak of 10 and K-State ended its Big 12 series losing streak of seven with a 2-1 series win over the Frogs.

Each league team has four remaining conference series left in the regular season, except for KU and WVU, which have five. Four of WVU’s reaming Big 12 series will be in Morgantown. Texas and Texas Tech will play three of its four remaining league series on the road.

TCU’s Preston Morrison, this week’s Big 12 Pitcher of the Week, threw his fifth complete game shutout while competing in the Conference last weekend. The five shutouts rank second on the Big 12 career list. Morrison became one of 10 hurlers to win the Big 12 Pitcher of the Week honor four or more times in their career.

Four Oklahoma players rank in the top 10 in the league in hits, while the Sooners have five players with 12 or more multi-hit games this season - the most of any team in the conference.

The league’s top two hitters are both freshman as TCU’s Connor Wanhanen and WVU’s Kyle Davis sit first and second for batting average. The last time a freshman led the conference in hitting was 2008 (Oklahoma State’s Thomas Belza, .386).

West Virginia opened its new Monongalia County Ballpark over the weekend totaling a three-game attendance of 6,968 - the most to ever attend a weekend series in Morgantown.

The Big 12 is one of two conferences with multiple teams (5. TCU and 6. Oklahoma State) ranked in the top 10 nationally in ERA (Big West). The Big 12 has five teams ranked in the top 50 (55 percent is the most of all leagues).

With its next win, OSU will become the 17th program in Division I history to reach 2,500 victories.