West Virginia Remains atop the Big 12 Conference Standings
The West Virginia Mountaineers completed the road series sweep of the Baylor Bears Sunday afternoon with an emphatic 18-4 decision, outscoring the Bears by a staggering combined score of 33-8 over the weekend in a three-game series.
The Mountaineers' 11 conference wins currently ties Oklahoma State and Kansas State in wins, but West Virginia won two out of three in the series on the road against both programs in the month of April and hold a 2.5 game edge on the two programs in the standings.
West Virginia has three conference series remaining. The Mountaineers will host Oklahoma and Texas Tech before heading on the road to take on Texas in the season series finale.
Texas currently has 10 wins and will wrap up and look to take the series from TCU on Monday, and if the Longhorns pull off the sweep of TCU and holds the tie breaker over Kansas State with the series win to start April but will be a game and a half behind WVU.
West Virginia has the opportunity to shatter its previous program high 14 Big 12 wins that was set last season, but in an extremely top-heavy edition of the league, finished sixth last in the standings last year. The mark topped the previous best of 13 wins which was set in the Mountaineers' inaugural season in the Big 12 Conference during the 2013 campaign where they finished fourth in the league standings and hit the same conference win total in 2019 with the addition of WVU hosting an NCAA regional.
The Mountaineers have never placed higher than fourth in the Big 12 Conference standings, although they have hit the mark four times, including the 2013 and '19 seasons, West Virginia's 12 league wins in '16 and '17 was also good enough for fourth place.
Big 12 Conference Standings
1. West Virginia (11-4)
2. Oklahoma State (11-7)
3. Kansas State (11-7)
4. Texas (10-7)
5. Texas Tech (9-9)
6. Oklahoma (9-9)
7. TCU (7-10)
8. Kansas (6-12)
9. Baylor (6-15)
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